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 …
This paper considers the relationship between the emergence and development of state forestry institutions in forested landscapes of West Bengal and the chronic and acute poverty of citizens living there. At least 13% of West Bengal
Hills get forest land tag, work on boundary wall set to resume After close to 35 years of dispute, hills spread over 53 acres of land in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, home to stone quarries for over three decades, will finally be protected as forest land with decks cleared …
The Supreme Court today refused permission to Reddy Brothers-owned Obulapuram Mining Company to transport the minerals mined from undisputed areas in Anantpur district in Andhra Pradesh. Asking the Central Environment Committee (CEC) to verify whether any mining is done in forest areas, a special forest bench headed by Chief Justice …
New Delhi, Nov. 19: In a fresh trouble for the Reddy brothers over the Obulapuram mining issue, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered fresh assessment by the Central Empowerment Committee appointed by it to find out encroachment of forest area by miners in the entire Bellary region. While refusing to …
Under the Forest Land Right Act, one lakh 9 thousand 424 forest dwellers have been given Land Right Certificates in the state so far. Action is underway to distribute Land Right Certificates to another 24 thousand 715 forest dwellers. During his Vanvasi Samman Yatra the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan …
Karnal: With less than 10 per cent area under green cover and no government land available for forestation along NH-1, the Karnal forest division has succeeded in removing encroachments on 900 hectares of forest land during the past five years. With the removal of encroachments on 200 hectares during the …
KOHIMA, Oct 7: The NSCN-K has been irked by the alleged threat to the Intanki Reserve Forest because of the flooding of Nagas from Manipur into the reserve forest in Nagaland in the last 10 years. The NSCN-K, also called GPRN/NSCN said tonight that in the last 10 years large …
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: The Cabinet on Wednesday decided to notify 17,066 acres of land in Munnar as forest land. Since the code of conduct is in place due to the local body elections, the government has decided not to declare it. It is after several rounds of deliberations in the earlier cabinet …
Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain today said that the State Government was trying to settle the land acquisition process for extending the area of Kaziranga National Park. He said that once the legal process was completed for the six subsequent additions, the park area would gain a substantial extension from its …
THE forest departments of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat are forcibly evicting tribals from forestland. Around 50 huts of the Korku community in Madhya Pradesh were demolished on August 29. On July 30, forest guards assaulted tribals of the Kunbi community for cultivating in forestland in Dang district in Gujarat. The …
Land for industries is acquired either through the government or through private negotiations with land owners. The government categorises agricultural land as single crop, double crop or barren. Compensation is determined depending on the category. After the government rates were revised in March, the compensation for doublecrop irrigated land went …
Golaghat, Sept. 5: Nur Hussain was 17 when his father Abul settled inside Rengma reserve forest in Golaghat district. The five-member family from Dhubri district was among the few who had set up huts on the southern part of the reserve forest.
SRINAGAR Aug 30: Minister for Forests, Environment & Ecology, Mian Altaf Ahmad has directed the officers of Wild Life Department to ensure that the green wealth is safeguarded within their respective jurisdictions. "Timber smuggling and encroachments have to be stopped at any cost", he said. The Minister said this while …
KALPETTA: The Forest Department evicted encroachers from a 50-acre cardamom plantation in the Mundakkai section of Meppadi Forest Range in South Wayanad Forest Division, under the Forest Protection Act -1969, on Sunday. The plantation was set up by encroaching vested forest land, according to the Forest officials. The owners of …
GUWAHATI, Aug 24: The Assam State BJP today accused Forest Minister Rockybul Hussain of helping illegal Bangladeshi immigrants to settle in forest areas in order to get their votes for the Congress in the elections. The BJP demanded the resignation of Hussain as a Cabinet minister for his alleged role …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Thursday, demanded a judicial inquiry into the undermining of actions against encroachments in Munnar and the reported leaking of information about the ordinances proposed by the State government. BJP spokesman George Kurian told a press conference that the Kanan Devan Hills (Taking Over …
