Forest Cover in India

A Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in the Assembly on Friday has found that the state government has, between 2000 and 2012, allotted 464.479 acres of government land in Bhubaneswar in 337 cases without any policy, procedure, ...

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Thought extinct for a century, then spotted in Maharashtra in 1997, the forest owlet appears to be on the verge of extinction from the forest where it was rediscovered, say Pune-based bird-lovers who have counted the last remaining samples there ...

The State Government will seek six weeks time from the Supreme Court for conducting gram sabhas to decide the fate of bauxite mining in ecologically sensitive Niyamgiri hills. We will request the apex court to grant us six more weeks for holding ...

JICA's contribution towards conserving Bio Diversity in India JICA Chief Mr Shinya Ejima 13 May, New Delhi: Land, air, water and all living organism together make our biosphere. Nature has created a delicate balance between all these. Any ...

Pakistan's first democratic transfer of power should have been a moment of hope and triumph. But, as it stands, widespread violence has marred the historic elections and all but halted the public campaigning by several prominent parties outside of ...

The city is all set to wear a greener look with the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation indentifying at least six medians on major roads for a massive plantation drive. The city forest department, which is the nodal agency for plantation, will aid BMC ...

Villagers in India are in panic mode as wild bears suspected of being under the influence of intoxicating flowers have ventured from the forest and killed and wounded 20 in recent days. Eight were killed by bears in the eastern Indian state of ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram have declared the Maoist rebels to be the biggest internal security threat to India and a hindrance to development. The mainstream media seem to have taken them at their face value.