Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
Coimbatore: The Forest Department in Coimbatore is planning to assess the number of tigers in Coimbatore forests and reorient its strategy to protect the animal following sighting of a tiger for the third time in Sirumugai range of the Coimbatore forest. District Forest Officer V. Thirunavukkarasu told The Hindu that …
AHMEDABAD: The population of vultures in the city may not have shown a decline in the 2010 census, but the scavenging bird is quickly losing its habitat. In 2010, vulture count in Ahmedabad was around 150 while that in the entire district was about 270. Jiv Daya Charitable Trust, an …
India's tiger habitats may be shrinking but its tiger population has increased, claims the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). On March 28, the ministry announced 295 tigers have been added to the previous estimate—the 2006 count had estimated 1,411 tigers in the wild, spurring corporate-sponsored save-the-tiger campaigns revolving …
INDIA’S tiger habitats may be shrinking but its tiger population has increased, claims the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). On March 28, the ministry announced 295 tigers have been added to the previous estimate—the 2006 count had estimated 1,411 tigers in the wild, spurring corporate-sponsored save-the-tiger campaigns revolving …
India is home to 1,210 million people, almost equal to the combined population of the US, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Japan (1,214 million) India is the most populous nation after China (1,342 million). India hosts 17.5 per cent of the world’s population compared to China’s 19.4 per cent. Of …
The Wildlife Conservation Department has planned to conduct a census of the elephant population in Sri Lankan forests this year. A senior official of the department said the enumeration will commence during the drought this August when water holes and minor irrigation canals run dry compelling wild animals to go …
Unhappy with the latest census that robbed Madhya Pradesh of its ‘tiger state’ status, the state has decided to carry out a fresh ‘sign survey’ in Kanha tiger reserve that has lost several wild cats over the past four years. The state’s request to re-check the data with the Wildlife …
KOCHI: A comprehensive wildlife census covering all the forest areas in the State will be carried out soon. The census, which is likely to begin next month, is expected to give a clear indication regarding the wildlife wealth of the State. The latest survey comes after a gap of nine …
LUCKNOW: The latest edition of tiger census has started getting fingers raised at it. The UP forest department has conveyed its dis-satisfaction over the count of tigers in the state to the concerned authorities, as the 2011 census has missed out on Bijnore landscape that makes tigers in UP "under-assessed". …
Counting wildlife is no easy matter, especially with a wide-ranging and stealthy forest dweller like the tiger, which is in the spotlight this week. On 28 March, India announced that its tiger population, in decline for decades, has increased by 225 animals over the past four years, to a total …
The science is suspect, logistics inadequate and equipment faulty. But even if taken at face value, the results of the second all-India tiger estimation only signal how our conservation efforts are rapidly slipping on the ground, says Jay Mazoomdaar It is never easy counting secretive, solitary predators. For decades, foresters …
JAIPUR: The population of Rajasthan has grown by 21.44% in the last decade and currently stands at 68,621,012. The number of males in the state stands at 35,620,086 while that of females is 33,000,926. According to the provisional results of the Census 2011 released on Thursday, the state has recorded …
AHMEDABAD: The state's literacy rate saw a 10.17% growth. However, the bad news is that Gujarat's standing in the national scenario dropped by two ranks to 18. The provisional census data released on Thursday revealed that in the state there were 79.31% literates in the state, which is higher than …
For the first time ever, the number of people made literate in India is more than the number added to its population. Consequently, there has been a net decline of over 31 million in the total number of illiterates in the country. That is one of many heartening figures that …
The child sex ratio has dropped to a new low, 914 girls per 1,000 boys from 927 in 2001, and activists in the area say this is because states have been dragging their feet on the implementation of the Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act. Sabu George, who in 2000 …
Census 2011 counted five million children fewer than Census 2001. The drop in the 0-6 age group from 163.8 million to 158.8 million marks a negative growth of 3.08 per cent, Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner C Chandramouli said while releasing the report. The number of boys has …
KOCHI: For every 100 men, there are 109 women in Kerala, one of the few places in the world where women outnumber men with such a wide margin. According to Census 2011, whose provisional figures were released by the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India in New Delhi on …
