Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
Pandurang Hegde is convener of the Appiko movement that protected many forests from the axe in the Western Ghats region. Bharat Dogra spoke to Hegde about efforts to bring environment issues to the forefront of elections: What is the Appiko movement? The Western Ghats run parallel to the coastline for …
On Friday, the Supreme Court suspended all mining activities in an area of 448 sq km of the Aravali hills in Haryana. The area includes Faridabad, Gurgaon and Mewat districts.
Forest Department is likely to launch an operation from May 11 to nab two rogue elephants which are damaging standing crops as well as attacking people in the Malnad region of the Western Ghats. According to officials, the State Government had given permission to the rogue elephants nearly five months …
Dhanya Matsa | ENS CANDIDATES contesting from the 32 parliamentary constituencies that fall under the Western Ghats region in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, and Kerala would now have to sign a letter promising to take up measures to protect the Western Ghats. An initiative of the Tamil Nadu Green …
Are you interested in adopting a forest? If yes then a Pune-based NGO has given you an opportunity to sponsor or adopt Western Ghat. Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) has given nature lovers an option to participate in conserving forests. The programme called
MoEF to clear the 33 km passing through reserve forest THE Karnataka High Court, on March 19, vacated its stay on a road-widening project that environmentalists are opposing. Nearly two-thirds of the 51-km road, connecting Peerunwadi in Belgaum district with Chorla near Goa border, passes through a reserve forest in …
The discovery of a dozen species of Western Ghats tree frogs that are new to science is evidence of significant biodiversity surviving in certain parts of India. It is at the same time a cautionary tale on how mindless development can wipe out species that have not had the opportunity …
SHWETA KAMAT PANAJI APRIL 10 Aiming to give voice to the voiceless Sahyadri hill ranges, environmentalists have worked out a manifesto for politicians vying for valuable votes of the people living around this world
Hubbardia Bor, a monospecific, critically endangered and endemic genus on the verge of extinction has been reintroduced and successfully restored in its natural home, the Western Ghats.
DR MANMOHAN Singh is an honourable man. He is soft-spoken, decent and, unlike most Indian politicians, he did not seek high office to line his pockets with ill-gotten wealth. For that alone, we in India, who continue to suffer consistently at the hands of dark politicians who steal from us, …
water feud: Acting on a petition against the Kalasa-Bhandura diversion project, the Karnataka high court has issued show cause notice to the state government and the Union ministry of environment and forests. The project will divert 7,560 million cubic metres of water from river Mandovi to river Malaprabha and displace …
From his lookout atop an 80- foot-tall tree, Gopal could see the forests in three states burning simultaneously last fortnight. Even though fires are not unusual at this time of year in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve (NBR)
