Vata foundation is keen on translocating the trees but has yet received a response from the government yet. Hyderabad: The process of widening the Hyderabad-Bijapur highway roads has put around 950 fully-grown banyan trees under threat. The road, which currently comprises two lanes, is being extended to accommodate four lanes. …
Vata foundation is keen on translocating the trees but has yet received a response from the government yet. Hyderabad: The process of widening the Hyderabad-Bijapur highway roads has put around 950 fully-grown banyan trees under threat. The road, which currently comprises two lanes, is being extended to accommodate four lanes. …
Ujjain: Haritma Abhiyan, a plantation drive along the banks of the Kshipra took off on Tuesday. Saplings of neem, pipal and banyan trees were planted at gaughat area by energy minister Paras Jain, divisional commissioner MB Ojha and Mayor Meena Jonwal in the interests of environment protection, giving ambitious environment …
Thousands of years after the epic Kurukshetra battle, National Green Tribunal (NGT) did an Arjuna act recently to protect the mythological banyan tree under which Lord Krishna is believed to have delivered the message of Bhagavad Gita. Considered to be more than 5,000 years old, the banyan tree at Jyotisar …
Going back to being the city of banyan trees might help Vadodara counter the rising air pollution levels in the city. According to a study conducted by the department of botany at M S University's Faculty of Science, planned plantation in the city can decrease the air pollution by almost …
Ficuscutulata, locally known as chhotabargad located at RariGhat road of Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh is the last surviving endemic tree of ficus species in the state. Chhotabargad is only endemic tree species to the state having been found from Pachmarhi and Orchha (from where it has become extinct). Neglect and …
Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) has set up an oxygen factory on Sun Pharma Road in the city. The factory, however, is no industrial plant, but a plantation of trees – including the banyan tree after which the city is named – that generate high amounts of oxygen. In the first …
BHOPAL: Urban Administration and Development minister, Babulal Gaur has said that Bhopal's Shahpura hillock will be developed as beautiful city forest. He said an action plan for the hillock's development will be chalked out soon in coordination with the municipal corporation, tourism development corporation and capital project administration (CPA). The …
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government is considering declaring banyan and peepal (Ficus Religiosa) trees as reserved trees as an attempt to conserve environment, stated, principal secretary, forest & environment department, SK Nanda during a seminar on
The value of the banyan tree is no mystery to traditional medical practitioners in India. For years they have been prescribing preparations containing latex of the banyan tree (Ficus bengalensis) to people suffering from joint pains and inflammation. Scientists from Maharashtra tested its efficacy on mice and agreed it is …
KOLKATA: The 230-year-old Indian Botanical Gardens are going to be renamed as Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Gardens. Announcing this here, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh described the move as
April 29: After three de-cades, developmental works at Thimmamma Marrimanu are going to materialise with its adoption by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD). Many leaders in the past had given assurances to develop the site, but to no avail. Thimmamma Marrimanu is a huge banyan tree, 550-years-old and spread over …
A Hyderabad TOI campaign has resulted in the revoking of all tree-cutting permissions in the city. Environmentalist Bittu Sahgal gets nostalgic about the slain banyan tree that triggered it all More than 100 years before the two-storey Paigah Palace was built by Sir Vikar-ul-Umra, a stately banyan tree occupied pride …
In order to stop the damage to the environment by cutting trees during various festivals, Mayor Rajlaxmi Bhosale on Wednesday said the civic administration would initiate action against those selling branches of trees in the city. "The selling of branches like banyan tree during vatapornima would not be allowed in …
The longevity of a banyan tree is often compared with at least seven life spans of a human being and hence women worship this tree for the well-being of their family, especially husband. These days, with more and more women working, there is no time to do the "pheras" around …
SOME HIMALAYAN species of Ficus -- the genus to which the pipal and the banyan belong -- yield fruit that have high nutritive value and are excellent for making into jams and jellies. Scientists say these species should be considered favourably for social and agroforestry programmes. P P Dhyani and …
