'Grid bottlenecks, execution risks slow power expansion': ReportIndia's renewable energy goals are facing hurdles. Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd, or PGCIL, is struggling with delays in building pow...
21 Apr, 2026, 12.41 AM IST
Uttarakhand: Protest turns violent in Rishikesh as locals block railway tracks, pelt stones; opposing Forest Dept's surveyDespite repeated requests by the police and Forest Department officials, the protesters refused to clear the highway and railway tracks. Gi...
29 Dec, 2025, 11.21 AM IST
Mizoram expands Chief Minister's Rubber Mission amid Assam border disputeTensions escalate between Assam and Mizoram over rubber plantations in the Mamit district, with allegations of Assam forest officials destr...
20 Aug, 2025, 10.59 PM IST
Land disputes and ecological destruction: Telangana's IT park plan threatens green spacesA land dispute in Telangana, involving the Kancha Gachibowli forested area and the University of Hyderabad, highlights the conflict between...
09 Apr, 2025, 12.00 AM IST
Around 43,01,335.043 bighas of Assam's land is under encroachment: GovtAssam’s Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Jogen Mohan said Mizoram has encroached 18,242.33 bighas of Assam’s forest land while Arun...
25 Dec, 2021, 09.54 AM IST
Tripartite agreement is not possible because of Mizoram: Assam CM Himanta Biswa SarmaSarma while making a statement on interstate border dispute in state assembly said, “At times despite initiative from Centre tripartite agr...
14 Aug, 2021, 11.07 AM IST
Assam border dispute: A case of cartographers' lines vs people s perception of boundaries"Sometimes the lines were drawn across a hill, sometimes through a forest on maps which did not clarify whether the hill slope or forest pa...
30 Jul, 2021, 05.46 PM IST
Assam to move SC for protection of forests after bloody border clashes with MizoramChief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told a press conference in Silchar that satellite images have shown that roads are being constructed and...
27 Jul, 2021, 02.52 PM IST
- Chief secretarys of Assam, Mizoram may meet over border dispute
Diffusing tension Recently, the deputy commissioner of Kolasib met his counterpart of Hailakandi to diffuse tension
03 Jul, 2021, 09.22 AM IST
566 national highway projects running behind schedule: Nitin GadkariIn a separate reply, the minister said that to overcome the problem, "it has been now decided that projects are awarded only when 90 per ce...
21 Nov, 2019, 04.08 PM IST
Mumbai's Aarey protests have rekindled the debate over India's forest coverProtests over the axing of more than 2,000 trees in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony to build a Metro shed have rekindled the debate over India’s fore...
12 Oct, 2019, 11.51 PM IST
- Nurturing Nature - Rubber estates are pvt forests: HC
The Madras high court on Thursday settled a longstanding legal dispute over whether the vast private estates and rubber plantations in Kany...
12 Mar, 2016, 07.02 AM IST
Government to file review petition against High Court order on forest encroachmentWith public pressure mounting against felling of fruit-bearing trees, CM Virbhadra Singh today directed the concerned officers to immediate...
21 Jul, 2015, 10.04 PM IST
Mufti government cracks down on forest land grabbers in JammuAs per the forest department, 14,345 hectares of forest land had been encroached upon with 9,463.39 hectares in Jammu and 4877.62 hectares ...
04 May, 2015, 03.56 PM IST
- Govt clears new dispute resolution mechanism for road sector
The government has cleared a proposal for adoption of a new dispute resolution mechanism for highway projects to ease legal and financial h...
29 Apr, 2013, 11.31 PM IST
- Palm oil plantations fuel deforestation and forest rights violations
Palm oil may be the largest source of vegetable oil; it is also the leading cause behind losing precious primary forests in South East Asia.
02 Nov, 2012, 07.36 PM IST
- Govt offers 100 acres of land for ISROs' space institute
Seeking to end the long-drawn row over the land for ISRO's Space Institute here, Kerala government has offered 100 acres of land free-of-co...
21 Nov, 2007, 01.14 PM IST