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SC forms high-powered expert panel to re-examine Aravalli definitionThe Supreme Court has formed a high-powered committee to review the Centre's report on the Aravalli hills. This panel will conduct an indep...
Back from brink: India's vultures stage comeback as captive-breeding, release efforts gather paceVultures are making a comeback in India after a two-decade decline, with over 700 birds bred in captivity and released into protected tiger...
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...
Mere lip service won't save our rich forestsSenior forest officials in Haryana are locked in a turf war over illegal tree felling. This dispute highlights a wider problem of instituti...
Government writes to states to reserve 20% jobs for AgniveersUnion Home Minister Amit Shah has urged all states to reserve 20 percent of jobs for Agniveers upon their completion of a four-year term in...
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...
Delhi Forest dept allows vehicular movement inside wildlife sanctuary for spiritual eventA permit to enter or reside in a sanctuary is issued subject to such conditions and on payment of such fee as may be prescribed, the Act st...
Delhi forest department sets ball rolling for first urban wildlife corridor"After the June 28 incident, we asked the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to conduct a feasibility survey for constructing a safe passa...
Get Rs 50 for every tree you plant: Haryana government to schoolchildrenThe decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today to review the progress of environment-centric schem...
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...
Haryana signs MoU with Patanjali for world herbal forestKhattar said that World herbal Forest would be developed over an area of about 53,000 acres with the technical and knowledge support of Pat...
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...
- NGT orders MoEF, Haryana to carry tree survey in Mangar forest
The National Green Tribunal has directed the Environment Ministry and Haryana government to carry out an independent study, including a tre...
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'.
Change of land use: National Green Tribunal summons Haryana Revenue SecretaryThe plea was filed by Colonel Sarvadaman Singh Oberoi seeking stay on change of land use from 'gair mumkin pahar' (non-cultivable land) to ...
- 'Reserve 33% of panchayat land for blackbucks'
Alarmed by the spurt in deaths of state animal, the blackbuck, Haryana wildlife department has come up with a unique strategy wherein all v...
- 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...
- Lower juvenile age limit to 16 years: Ajay Singh Yadav, Haryana minister
The minister also agreed with the view that those involved in cases of sexual assault should be socially boycotted.
- Officer faces action for blowing whistle on sanctuary
An Indian Forest Service officer is facing disciplinary action for blowing the whistle on a canal being dug without permission through Hary...
- 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...