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NCR plan keeps Aravali safeguards after long debateThe National Capital Region's Regional Plan 2041 will keep the Natural Conservation Zone. This protects the Aravali ecosystem and sensitive...- Classroom by day, cowshed by night: No toilets, drinking water in 19 schools near India's millennium city GurugramIn Haryana's Nuh, numerous government primary schools lack buildings, forcing children to learn in cattle sheds, open fields, and village c...
- Aravalis’ 20-year safety story could hit a new plot twistFor over two decades, the Supreme Court has consistently protected the Aravalis, banning mining and groundwater extraction. Despite repeate...
- Experts warn Aravali's 100-metre rule risks dismantling its landscape, biodiversity and groundwater systemsA new government definition classifying hills over 100 meters as "Aravalis" has sparked expert warnings that significant portions of the vi...
- Need to take forest cover seriouslyThe Haryana Forest Department has sent notices to more than a dozen people for encroachment on 35 acres of protected Aravali forest land, a...
- 4-fold rise in Aravali green cover in '90s; fall after 2000The report, including satellite images, was made public at a time when the department is planning an audit of plantation drives in the Arav...
- Panel favours 'expansion' of Aravalis in the entire NCRIn the past, real estate players allegedly tried to influence the Haryana government to push for more non-forest activities in the Aravalis...
- Stakeholders to determine what constitutes AravalisThey claimed this was a tactic to delay demarcation of natural conservation zones, to reduce the area falling under such zones in order to ...
- Proposal for Mangar Bani forest demarcationCity-based environmentalists have welcomed the forest department’s move to suggest the state government to demarcate 1943 acres of land in ...
- Aravali foothills may be opened to real estateAdministration wants to define foothills as an area of 1 km from the base of the hills, though a final decision is likely to be taken at a ...
- Haryana nod to construction in green zone goes against SC orderThe notification has, however, not been extended to Faridabad despite the NCR Planning Board raising concern over the exploitation of green...
- Garbage generated in Gurgaon, Faridabad to be dumped in landfill site in eco-sensitive AravalisIt's official: 92 acres in the Aravalis have been identified as a landfill site for garbage generated in Gurgaon and Faridabad.
- ‘Experimental’ Aravalli Biodiversity Park opens todayTen years after the first plantations began in a mining-ravaged stretch of the Aravali range in Delhi, a forest is in bloom.
- Aravali not a forest, says Haryana forest department orderThe order implies that vast tracts of forests, including most parts of the sacred Mangarbani grove, would now be recorded as 'not forest'.
- Leopards make quiet comeback in Gurgaon-Faridabad AravalisIt may seem unbelievable to many.But, amidst the urban chaos and concrete in National Capital Region, leopards are making a silent comeback.
- Ban fails to stop illegal mining in AravalisLocals said the activities usually happen at night and they have spotted a couple of trucks coming out of the villages loaded with stones.
- MoEF’s 1992 notification paves way for real estate players in Faridabad AravalisA 1992 notification of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has proved spoiler in the protection of Aravalis in Faridabad and has...
- ‘Fragile’ Mangar hosts rich bird lifeIf the Haryana government had illusions about the Mangar Bani being anything but a rich Aravali eco-system, a visit to the area will easily...
- Land grab in the Aravalis: Green tribunal steps inTaking suo motu cognizance of TOI report, National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday issued notices to the principal conservator of forest and...
- Leopard caught near GurgaonForest department officials caught a four-year-old male leopard which seems to have strayed from the Ranthambore sanctuary.
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