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Mining turns India's heat-shield hills to dustDizzyingly deep pits from large-scale mining scar India's ancient Aravalli mountains, threatening the future of a forested buffer that New ...- The Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023 dilutes Forest Right Act: Tripura Rajya Upajati Ganamukti ParishadThe organisation stated, “Before implementing of any developmental project in the forest areas, obtaining consents of the gram sabhas of co...
- Over 5 lakh tribals, other forest dwellers whose claims had been rejected, could face evictionThe exercise, following a February 2019 interim Supreme Court order to check the number of tribals, whose claims had been rejected under th...
- Forest areas being 'finished' due to concretisation, says SC
- Only a few hundred illegal squatters among 2 mn rejected forest rights claimsThe Supreme Court, which had told states to complete reviews of claim rejections within four months, will hear the case on July 12.
- Involving tribal communities can boost India's wildlife conservation: IIT prof
- States to seek more time to gauge no. of illegal forest dwellers“The data required is complex and the states need more time to ascertain the exact numbers,” a senior tribal affairs ministry official told...
- Supreme Court to hear on Monday fresh plea for not evicting forest dwellersA bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna had on March 5 taken cognisance of the plea, filed by Chhattisgarh-...
- Act against illegal hotels around Gir sanctuary:HC to Guj govtThe Gujarat High Court has directed the state government to take action against the illegal establishments operating in the buffer zones of...
- Protect the rights of forest dwellers: Tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra DeoDeo said environment ministry’s August 2009 order to make the process of diverting forestland compliant to Forest Rights Act “appears to be...
- Tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo writes to chief ministers suggesting actions for implementation of Foreign Rights ActThe minister’s letter comes a less than fortnight ahead of the fresh set of order and guidelines that are to be issued by the tribal affair...
- Posco defends forest clearance, diversionPosco India Ltd has told the Orissa High Court that no illegalities were committed either by the Centre or Orissa in giving forest clearanc...
- HC notice to Centre, Orissa govt and Posco on land acquisitionOrissa High Court issued notices to the State and Central governments and Posco India on a PIL alleging illegal forest clearance granted in...
- Protest may queer pitch for Odisha Govt's Posco assurance reportThe Odisha state government has said that it will submit its assurance that there are no tribals or traditional forest dwellers in Posco pr...
- Central team says land acquisition by govt for Posco 'illegal'The Orissa government today began land acquisition for the proposed Rs 51,000 crore Posco steel project in Jagathsinghpur district, even as...
- Tested by its own lawEven as UPA II tries to underscore its pro-tribal credentials by putting tribal rights and entitlements on top of the reconstituted Nationa...
- New forest rights panel fails to meet demand of activistsThe environment ministry has reconstituted the joint committee set up with the ministry of tribal affairs to assess the impact of Forest Ri...
- None to protect tribal rights in panel on forest resourcesMinistries of environment and forests and tribal affairs have jointly set up a 10-member committee to study and assess the impact of Forest...
- 'Settle forest rights first, industry can wait'The bone of contention between wildlife and tribal lobbies could now turn into a headache for project developers, especially mining and pow...
- Tribals get more say over forests at lastThe Lok Sabha on Friday passed the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill to give triba...
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