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...
05 Dec, 2025, 05.01 PM IST
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...
18 May, 2023, 11.10 PM IST
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...
28 Feb, 2017, 01.30 PM IST
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...
20 Sep, 2016, 11.20 AM IST
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 ...
18 Jun, 2016, 11.53 AM IST
- Proposal for Mangar Bani forest demarcation
City-based environmentalists have welcomed the forest department’s move to suggest the state government to demarcate 1943 acres of land in ...
04 Feb, 2016, 11.26 AM IST
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 ...
14 Dec, 2015, 11.17 AM IST
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...
12 Dec, 2015, 12.12 PM IST
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.
04 Oct, 2015, 10.27 AM IST
‘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.
22 Apr, 2015, 12.37 PM IST
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'.
16 Apr, 2015, 11.22 AM IST
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.
20 Sep, 2014, 01.56 AM IST
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.
05 Jul, 2014, 10.21 AM IST
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...
06 Apr, 2014, 01.38 AM IST
‘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...
20 Feb, 2013, 03.48 AM IST
- Land grab in the Aravalis: Green tribunal steps in
Taking suo motu cognizance of TOI report, National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday issued notices to the principal conservator of forest and...
08 Jan, 2013, 03.30 AM IST
Leopard caught near GurgaonForest department officials caught a four-year-old male leopard which seems to have strayed from the Ranthambore sanctuary.
09 Mar, 2008, 01.27 PM IST