How a PhD dropout became the Indian Forest Service topper: Kanika Anabh's journey of grit and persistenceKanika Anabh, a Ranchi native and former PhD scholar, secured All India Rank 1 in the Indian Forest Service 2024 exam after three challengi...
22 May, 2025, 06.31 PM IST
The US is now at greater risk of deadlier wildfires—even worse than the one in Los Angeles. Here's whyMassive layoffs in the U.S. Forest Service have drastically reduced resources and personnel, which could severely impact wildfire preventio...
21 Feb, 2025, 11.10 AM IST
FRI Dehradun wraps up training on latest in seed and nursery technologyA three-day training session on 'Advances in Seed and Nursery Technology' concluded at the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun. Sponsored...
26 Sep, 2024, 07.09 PM IST
India to become Aatmanirbhar in silk production in 2 years: Smriti IraniUnion minister Smriti Irani said that India's raw silk production increased 35 per cent in the last six years. Six years ago, 70 lakh peopl...
07 Mar, 2021, 09.46 PM IST
Railways gets environmental clearance for Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet trainAddressing a virtual press conference here, Railway Board Chairman and CEO, V.K. Yadav said, "Requisite Wildlife, Forestry and Coastal Regu...
01 Dec, 2020, 03.57 PM IST
Kashmir gets its first Muslim woman pilotIram succeeds Tanvi Raina, a Kashmiri Pandit, who joined Air India as the Valley’s first woman pilot in 2016.
31 Aug, 2018, 11.53 AM IST
- Dehradun-based FRI organises training workshop for officers of Indian Forest Service
Resource Survey & Management Division of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun are coordinators of the workshop, according to a press release.
06 Oct, 2016, 05.41 PM IST
Toy Train's eco-friendly chug ends: Bal Bhavan authorities ditch biofuelBal Bhavan claims biofuel reduced efficiency of Putani Express. Makers of the biofuel, however, hold it was stopped for monetary reasons.
27 Jul, 2016, 05.01 PM IST
Inter-departmental notes not third party info: Central Information Commission to PMOThe PMO had claimed that the records related to Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) opinion and follow up action were a third party...
01 Feb, 2016, 05.30 PM IST
India, Japan sign agreement to amend DTAAIndia and Japan today signed an agreement to amend the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) which will help in reducing tax avoidance.
12 Dec, 2015, 09.30 PM IST
- Haryana to get Rs 98 crore under crop diversification programme
To encourage the farmers of Haryana to adopt crop diversification, the Central Government has approved Rs 98.50 crore.
05 Jul, 2013, 04.36 PM IST
- Damodar Valley Corporation renews pisciculture
Twenty farmers, now being imparted scientific training to increase production of fish, will get 20 check dams to rear fish, a DVC official ...
29 Sep, 2012, 03.08 PM IST
- Ministerial turf war could render green min toothless
In what could render the Union forests and environment ministry (MoEF) toothless, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has told ...
11 Mar, 2012, 04.24 AM IST
- Indian Forest Service officers will fly abroad to hone skills
MoEF has tied up with three US universities to raise the competence of its IFS officers, who are in different phases of their careers in th...
12 May, 2010, 01.56 AM IST
- None to protect tribal rights in panel on forest resources
Ministries of environment and forests and tribal affairs have jointly set up a 10-member committee to study and assess the impact of Forest...
12 Feb, 2010, 04.24 AM IST
- Myanmar's wild elephants help cut down their forest habitat
Elephants in Myanmar have long been invaluable labourers in the country's timber industry, nimbly finding their way through forests and dra...
19 Feb, 2008, 11.24 AM IST
- Haryana collaborating with Sweden on education
The Haryana Forest Department in collaboration with the Swedish Government has proposed to set up an Indian Institute for Sustainable Devel...
08 Feb, 2008, 02.15 PM IST