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 People's Organisations have been running a combined agitation against the Madhya Pradesh Forestry Project. Alleging that the World Bank and the State Government both had ignored the year 1999 joint inquiry committee report and the objections raised by the tribal population and the People's Organisations against the World Bank's …
Government workers handed out cotton surgical masks to passersby Thursday after rain failed to disperse a thick smoky haze above Sumatra Island. Fires have been raging in the jungles for weeks, and many fear that a familiar environmental disaster is about to choke the skies of Southeast Asia once more. …
The Punjab Government today stopped the felling of more than 50,000 trees in the state. The step has been taken in wake of an order passed by the Supreme court in this connection. The Punjab Forest Department has flashed instructions to all the Divisional Forest Officers to abide by the …
The Centre has allocated Rs 10 crore, out of the promised Rs 52.52 crore, to the State Government for implementation of the first phase of the project to bridge the infrastructural gap in the forestry sector of Assam during the current year, official sources said.
Malaysia and Singapore have complained to Indonesia about the haze which both the countries claim was polluting the air. The Indonesian government has received complain from the two neighbouring countries about the smog which they said originated in Riau province, secretary general of the forestry and plantation ministry, Suripto said …
CM : While the move of Himachal government to lift the moratorium on green fellings has drawn flak from various quarters, records reveal that it was only a reiteration of the decision taken by the previous Congress government in February 1997. Enquiries also revealed that there was no blanket ban …
Astronomers have discovered an asteroid flying through space that could crash into the earth in 2022, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Although astronomers say the chance of a collision is about 1 in 1 million, more observations are needed to better calculate the asteroid's orbit and rule out …
The State Government claims to have implemented a numberof policy decisions for greater participationof rural populace in forestry development activities through joint forest management (JFM). In pursuance of a Cabinet decision, the benefits to be provided to Van Samitis for their conservation and development works had been specified, an official …
The Supreme Court has directed the urban development ministry, the Delhi government, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to explain within seven days why they failed to relocate harmful industries away from the residential areas of Delhi. The directions were given by a division bench …
a storm is brewing in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. It is not one that augurs well for a state known for the progress heralded by its computer-friendly and media-savvy chief minister Chandrababu Naidu. The state government is at an advanced stage of signing a memorandum of understanding ( …
Forest brigand Veerapan has made four fresh demands to release Kannada superstar Raj Kumar and three others held hostage by him. He has also declared himself a Tamil extremist. "My earlier struggle was for six lakh people of the forest area, now I am in the field for the six …
A TEAM of American scientist have decoded the genetic sequence of the bacterium, Vibrio cholerae. The sequence of El Tor, a destructive type of cholera bacterium, was deciphered by John Hedelberg of the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland, Rita Colwell of University of Maryland in Baltimore and John …
a clash between the us and the European Union (eu) over the rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, as agreed in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, seems to be inevitable. The us in a submission to the United Nations has said that the Kyoto Protocol must recognise forests and agricultural …
According to laws in both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, a sandalwood tree is a state property and the government has exclusive rights over its harvest, selling and movement. "Since local people do not get any benefits from these trees, they do not take interest in its protection," says Madhav Gadgil …
The Mexican government has been asked to create a whale sanctuary to protect whales from being hunted by the Japanese. International environmental pressure group, Greenpeace, along with a few other organisations have urged Mexico to abide by its policy of protecting whales and create a sanctuary on its own shores. …
it all happened on a dark Sunday night. The Kannada screen idol Rajkumar was in Doddagajanur village in Erode district, Tamil Nadu, for a house-warming get together with his family and relatives. The bandit was on the prowl. Before anyone knew what was happening, he had whisked away their dear …
large-scale reforestation programmes and cultivation of abandoned agricultural land has led to the expansion of forest area in Europe by 500,000 hectares a year. This was stated in a recent report on temperate forest, compiled by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the Food and Agriculture Organisation. The …
The Orissa Wood Based Industries Council (OWBIC) expects the state government to constitute a state Forest Advisory Committee to review the Orissa Saw Mill and Saw Pits (Control) Act 1991 and Rules of 1993 before bringing any amendment to it. The OWBIC feels that the committee which is imperative for …
The Joint Control Board constituted for the Inter-State Subarnarekha Irrigation Project will meet soon to revive the project. Already more than Rs 1,200 crore has been invested in it over the last several years, informed Union resources minister Mr Arjun Sethi in Bhubaneswar.
The central government is going ahead with its plan to set up a 500 MW hydel power generation unit at Arunachal Pradesh at an investment of Rs 30,000 crore. Sources said the project would be part of the government's plan to tap the vast hydel power potential of the region.
