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
Soon, Gurgaon may have a 15-km Leopard park with jungle safari facilityA plan to protect a 15km stretch of the Aravalis from Bandhwari landfill to Damdama lake in Gurgaon has been unveiled. The project aims to ...
01 Nov, 2023, 04.06 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
Centre to help for scheme for beautification of AravalisUnion minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday assured that the central government will extend all possible support to any scheme for enhancing t...
18 Jun, 2017, 01.21 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
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
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
- 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
- Sariska mining leases to stay
Rajasthan govt has refused to cancel new mining leases in the Sariska range despite Union forests minister Jairam Ramesh asking CM Ashok Ge...
25 Oct, 2010, 07.39 AM IST
- Sariska mining leases to stay
The Rajasthan govt has refused to cancel new mining leases in the Sariska range despite environment minister Jairam Ramesh asking CM Ashok ...
25 Oct, 2010, 12.17 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