Demystifying Land Records

Nashik, May 13 (PTI) Maharashtra Forest Department has seized red sandalwood worth Rs 2 crore in adjoining Dhule district, official sources said today. A truck carrying the expensive sandalwood logs was intercepted on Mumbai-Agra National Highway ...

Nagpur, May 6 : Despite Supreme Court's moratorium on new saw mills due to less availability of timber, 25 new saw mills and 72 vertical saw machines have been apparently granted by the forest department in Maharashtra, sources said.

Defying the Supreme Courts directive to restrict the number of saw mills in the country, the Maharashtra forest department has granted permission to 25 more saw mills and 72 vertical saw machines. Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.

The state forest department has captured images of more than 141 fully grown tigers in Maharashtra's four tiger reserves and their surrounding areas.

CHANDRAPUR: A 50-year-old woman was mauled to death by a leopard in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra on Thursday, a forest department official said. The woman, identified as Gopika Kalsarpe, became the eighth victim of leopard attack in the Chandrapur ...

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The Maharashtra fisheries department is to be empowered shortly to act against fishermen who are found to be violating the ban on catching fish listed as protected species. Till now, the powers to deal with poaching were vested solely with the ...

Alleging irregularities in the allocation of the e-tendering contract by the forest department to the company which carried out the process, the roads, infrastructure and facilities division of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), East Vidarbha will file a ...

Only 20 per cent of the reserve having six resident tigers was open to tourists Mumbai The forest department has said reports in a section of the media that tourists were blocking movement of tigers in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) should be ...