Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
KALAIGAON, Sept 16 – Large-scale human encroachment on the age-old elephant corridors of Udalguri district is posing a serious threat to the ecology of the district as well as the State. Unabated felling of trees and destruction of the green cover have compelled wild elephants to roam in the nearby …
Shillong: The cement lobby is a powerful group in Meghalaya. They have succeeded in toppling governments and changing chief ministers. The State Forest Department is a willing collaborator in the forest land acquisition of cement companies. The MoEF’s repeated attempts to blow the whistle over the issue met with inaction. …
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court in Hyderabad on Monday arrested former Karnataka infrastructure minister Gali Janardhan Reddy and his cousin, Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) managing director Srinivas Reddy, opening a new chapter in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh’s mining politics. The duo were arrested by CBI officials in …
Mining in India is regulated by multiple institutions functioning at multiple levels to provide checks and balances. In Bellary, however, every department and agency supposed to regulate and control mining simply collapsed under the weight of the “loot”. Bellary, therefore, represents a colossal failure of governance. There are seven ministries …
SAMBALPUR: Even as the Forest Department is making tall claims of protecting the Budharaja reserve forest, several illegal encroachments have come up in the area. Located in the heart of Sambalpur town, the reserve forest was once spread across 133 acres. It has, however, reduced to 75 acres now. An …
Rapid deforestation and urbanisation have encroached upon the forest under the supervision of District Forest Office (DFO). The DFO has failed to check the rampant destruction of the natural resource in the name of providing shelter to landless and freed bonded labourers. Infrastructures such as electricity facilities, road, drinking water …
V. Balasubramanian, Chairman of the Task Force for Recovery of Public Land and its Protection, at a press conference in Bangalore on July 4. IT was clear to V. Balasubramanian, the Chairman of the Task Force for Recovery of Public Land and its Protection, when he submitted his report on …
A weeklong campaign to protect mangroves along the Sindh coastline through public awareness was launched by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) on Thursday. The launch was followed by a token hunger strike by a group of PFF activists, who were joined by a number of people living in the coastal …
LIVING a legally non-existent life for more than six decades, the Taungya forest-dwellers in Gorakhpur and Maharajganj districts of Uttar Pradesh finally got their share of rights on forestland. On July 25, state forest minister Fateh Bahadur Singh distributed land titles to 651 Taungya families in six villages of the …
Sindh government could not rehabilitate the forests of the province despite the passage of one year after the devastating floods of last year. Forests in kacha areas have been the natural barriers against floods' devastation. After the devastating floods of last year, Senior Minister for Works and Services Dr Zulifqar …
Bangalore: Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde has said he has no doubt that his final report on illegal mining that is said to indict Chief Minister Yeddyurappa and four Cabinet ministers, will meet the same fate as the interim report that was ignored by the State government. His hopes now rest …
Reddys are into mining in State as well, says Justice Hegde Bangalore:The Lokayukta has named Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, four ministers, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, Congress Rajya Sabha member Anil Lad and BJP legislator Anand Singh, among others, beneficiaries of the illegal mining scam in Karnataka. The …
On the morning of June 13, 2011, Sukhdev Sahoo of Nuagaon in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district woke up in horror. The state administration had demolished his betel farm. The betel vines were in the way of India’s largest foreign direct investment: the US $12 billion POSCO project. Sahoo was threatened: “If …
Forest dependency as a means of livelihood has dropped perceptibly in villages particularly near wet zone forests during the past few decades. The rate is much more after end the decades long conflict. Researchers believe this may be due to a shift towards cultivation of cash crops, despite many villagers …
The State Government will follow zero-tolerance policy on wetland encroachment while the prospects of granting settlement rights (patta) to the landless poor residing in hills (excluding reserve forest areas) in Guwahati would be assessed by a committee headed by Dr Bhumidhar Barman. The committee will comprise the four MLAs of …
As part of a statewide afforestation plan, the State Forest Department today launched a massive tree plantation drive under the North Kamrup Division. From today, around 6,000 seedlings will be planted on the barren hills of Agyathuri and nearby areas. This is part of an ambitious plan that intends to …
