Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: Zudpi Jungle Lands. A batch of applications involved a peculiar issue concerning the situation prevailing in the six districts of eastern Vidarbha region namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli. The issue pertains to the status of the …
The Centre has decided that "compensatory afforestation' would be carried out in 20.028 hectares of "degraded land' in the protected forest area of Laddowal near Ludhiana. The decision was taken in a matter pertaining to the diversion of 10.014 hectares of forest land for the construction of parking lots, footpaths …
The Paharpur Business Centre (PBC) has accused the DDA of causing the starvation of nearly 2,000 trees in the Capital's Nehru Place Greens. The PBC has alleged the trees that were planted by the company aided by the citizens were being neglected by the DDA and the trees were dying …
Forest conservation and management in Karnataka has seen a change in the last decade. In Karnataka, JFM is known as Joint Forest Planning and Management (JFPM) and was initiated in 1993 coinciding with the starting of the Western Ghats Forestry and Environment Project with British funds.The largest number of VFCs …
The delay in the completion of irrigation projects in Bagalkot district of Karnataka has affected farmers as most of them are dependent on agriculture for a livelihood.
Nearly three lakhs trees of the total eight lakhs in the BHEL Township have been fully destroyed due to high temperature. Rests are also on the verge of getting dried up. According to the garden specialist huge devastation of trees in the BHEL is the result of acute lowered water …
The Madhya Pradesh state government has constituted a committee to dispose off cases of encroachment on forestland. The committee, according to an official release, will comprise of the sub divisional officer Revenue and Forests, Tehsildar, Naib Tehsildar and Circle Officer of forests. Special camps will be organised to hear such …
The UK fuel cell industry is growing rapidly and will continue to gain momentum with proper support from government and industry, says a new report. But globally the UK's position is weak, with only a handful of patents and commercialized systems generated from UK research. Around 850 people are currently …
Sonia Gandhi addressed a rally in Mandla, attended mainly by tribals, where she showered praises on the Digvijay Singh government for being the first in the country to grant tribals the right to forest produce. They have, she said, gone from being
The Bilaspur police has arrested a khair wood contractor, Geeta Ram, and four truck drivers Rattan Lal, Ramesh Chand, Piar Singh and Suresh Kumar were arrested at a police "naka' at Kandraur Bridge. The Superintendent of Police, Mr M Chander Shekhar, said that a police party, led by Bilaspur Sadar …
A division bench of Balochistan High Court (Pakistan) directed the provincial government to adopt strict measures to ensure protection of forests in Mehargarh area. The bench comprising Chief Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani issued the directive on the application of Haji Lashkari Raisani praying that inappropriate …
Despite spending crores of rupees on improving water resources during the last three years, several districts in the Tamil Nadu state are reeling under severe drought conditions. Failure to make use of naturally available water, neglect of traditional water resources, and overuse of groundwater have contributed to the present situation.
the more virulent the pathogen, the less fertile it is, Australian scientists have discovered, showing that there is often a genetic trade-off between ferocity and fecundity in fungi that infect plants. Virulence is the ability of a pathogen, such as a fungus, to attack a host plant successfully. Fungi have …
Trees, worth lakhs of rupees, were gutted in a forest fire which broke out in Dehra Dun (Uttaranchal) even as an alert has been sounded in vulnerable areas officials said. Some forest areas were still under the grip of the fire, officials said.
NASA has selected two sites on Mars where it plans to deploy rohbotic rovers early next year to hunt for evidence of past conditions supporting life on the red planet, the US space agency said.
Realising the potential of Patna to develop as an important waterway in North and East India and Nepal, the Centre has decided to set up a river terminal with modern facilities for mechanised handling of cargo, Union Sipping Minister Shatrughan Sinha said. The Minister said river Hooghly, besides the Ganga, …
After successive droughts, when Madhya Pradesh continues to confront the acute problem of rapidly depleting water table, coupled with massive population pressure on the forest cover, the State Government's latest scheme for diverting the entire profit from the sale of teak and bamboos to the forest dwellers, which was launched …
Greenery in the Chennai city has never had it so bad. Nearly three weeks after the Forest department formally handed over 35,000 saplings to the Chennai Corporation as part of the second phase of the central government funded Green Belt for Abatement of Pollution in Greater Chennai, the civic body …
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu called upon people to put in joint efforts in wiping out drought from the state by successful implementation of water conservation works. He addressed a public meeting at Godugunuru village of Budwel mandal in the district as part of 'Jalachaitanyam' programme.
The forest cover witnessed a gradual increase in recent times in majority of the states, the Director General of Union Forest Ministry M K Sharma said. Sharma, on a two-day trip to Tripura, told that the first satellite data showed that total forest cover area of the country was 19.89%.
Adopt a tree and reap benefits! The Forest Department's latest drive to enlist support for the tree adoption or Tree Patta Scheme has met with a fair amount of success. Already, more than 25,000 persons in Karnataka have taken up this scheme to nurture and protect 2,85,672 trees.
