Climate crisis is a gender issue, women face higher risks, less representationClimate change disproportionately impacts women, who are often excluded from decision-making despite their crucial roles in crisis response...
17 Apr, 2026, 11.03 PM IST
Draft forest policy does not protect tribal interests, says NCSTThe draft policy, released recently by the ministry of environment, forest and climate change to replace the government’s 1988 policy, prop...
22 May, 2018, 08.02 AM 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, 07.04 AM 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
- 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
- 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 set up panel to study forest ownership issue in NE: Prakash JavadekarThe panel would work towards ensuring protection to forests and benefits to communities besides sustainable development, the Union Minister...
17 Nov, 2015, 03.47 PM IST
Environment ministry wants liberal felling, transit pass norms for private landMoEF has also asked the states to authorize gram sabha concerned to regulate felling and transit of trees or timber grown under agro-farm f...
06 Aug, 2014, 01.47 AM IST
- Demarcation by mid-October, forest department tells National Green Tribunal
Rains may hinder the identification process but it will be completed in the second week of October 2014, counsel for Milind Karkhanis, depu...
05 Jun, 2014, 05.39 AM IST
Government sets up co-ordination panel to speed up coal projectsAmid multiple coal mining activities facing regulatory hurdles, the government has set up a co-ordination panel to speed up clearances as w...
06 Jan, 2014, 07.41 PM IST
Green panel gives nod to mine in the Naxal affected Saranda forests of JharkhandThe government's efforts to counter Maoists not withstanding, a key environment ministry panel has been proactive in recommending that mini...
04 Jun, 2013, 08.29 AM IST
- Eco-tourism centres in forests to get facelift
The eco-tourism centres (ETC) at forest reserves that are emerging as tourism hotspots in central Gujarat may soon go through a major facel...
04 Mar, 2013, 10.22 PM IST
Green nod for JSW steel, Jindal power projects to mine in Asia's largest sal forestSaranda is a sensitive area, which was under Maoist control for a decade before paramilitary forces seized control in 2011.
07 Feb, 2013, 08.46 AM IST
- Government’s efforts to ensure economic empowerment of the tribal gets a fillip
The government resolution or order transfers all rights of minor forest produce and major timber to the gramsabha elected joint forest mana...
07 Jul, 2012, 09.14 AM IST
- Panel recommends fixing of MSP for forest produce
A high-level committee has submitted an interim report and recommended that the Centre should begin with fixing of minimum support price of...
18 Feb, 2011, 06.24 AM IST
- Panel mulls co-op for forest produce
Move to help tribals get better price for goods.
21 Oct, 2010, 01.53 AM IST
- Forest ministry seeks PE fund
In an attempt to attract venture capitalists into forestry, the ministry of environment and forests has sought funding by private entities ...
18 Dec, 2006, 12.52 AM IST