Forests

Under pressure to act against the anti-Naxal Salwa Judum, the Chhattisgarh Government faced fresh trouble with the Supreme Court requiring information on rehabilitation provided to tribals displaced due to mining and other developmental activities. On Tuesday, the apex court heard a PIL filed by academicians Nandini Sundar, Ramachandra Guha and EAS Sarma on the State’s coyness to act against Sa

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Bhopal, Aug 30: Forest Minister Shri Sartaj Singh has asked the officers to find out the possibilities of associating the forest committees with public distribution system. The Forest Minister was reviewing the department's activities at the office of the Chief Conservator of Forests, Shahdol, on Saturday.

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KOCHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered to stop the functioning of the controversial Mangrove Theme Park at Pappinissery. The court ordered to stop all construction and commercial activities in the park run by the Pappinissery Eco Tourism Society.

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Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Rajkot: After the successful ‘chakli nu ghar’ (house for sparrow) programme that was initiated in the city to conserve the house sparrow and its habitats, city-based Navrang Nature Club (NNC) is on a new green mission.

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Guwahati, Aug.

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Green drive to take time, says official - NCP to plant 2000 saplings on Purno birthday; Manipur’s Rs 50-lakh scheme seeks people’s support Imphal, Aug.

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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.

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The Orissa government will move the Supreme Court against the clearance granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to the Rs 10,000-crore Polavaram irrigation project on the Godavari in Andhra Pradesh. Naveen Patnaik“We have decided to file a petition in the Supreme Court of India within two days for a stay on the final clearance for the project.

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Debabrata Mohanty A week after the Ministry of Environment and Forests threw the Vedanta Aluminium project in Orissa into doldrums by denying final stage forest clearance, the fate of the 12 million tonne per annum steel project by Korean steelmaker Posco appears to be bleak after the ministry widened the ambit of the Meena Gupta panel looking into the steel project. In July this year, the

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Pune The Pune district administration has set a target of planting one crore trees in the rural areas over a period of one year.

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