India's real Pushpa? SC slaps man with Rs 4.54 crore fine for illegal cutting over 400 treesThe Supreme Court has fined a man Rs 4.57 crore for illegally cutting down 454 trees in the protected Taj Trapezium Zone. The court emphasi...
26 Mar, 2025, 09.46 AM IST
SC asks FRI to conduct tree census in Taj Trapezium ZoneThe Supreme Court has instructed the Taj Trapezium Zone authority to appoint the Forest Research Institute for conducting a tree census wit...
05 Mar, 2025, 04.13 PM IST
AAP's Saurabh Bhardwaj accuses Delhi LG of visiting ridge forest area where illegal cutting of trees happenedAAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj claimed Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena visited sites where trees were illegally felled and gave instructio...
26 Aug, 2024, 11.34 AM IST
"Delhi Govt takes firm stand," says Environment Ministry after SC reprimands over illegal trees cutAfter the Supreme Court reprimanded the Delhi government for the illegal felling of 1,100 trees in South Delhi's Reserve Forest Area withou...
27 Jun, 2024, 07.01 AM IST
Env Ministry proposes to replace jail term with Rs 500 fine for illegal tree cutting in forestsEnv Ministry proposes to replace jail term with Rs 500 fine for illegal tree cutting in forests. New Delhi, The Union Environment Ministry ...
11 Jul, 2022, 11.20 PM IST
Three trees cut every hour in past three years, Delhi HC toldJustice Najmi Waziri, who was hearing a contempt case concerning the preservation of trees in the city, was informed that as per an affidav...
11 Jul, 2022, 06.09 PM IST
Consider as representation plea against cutting trees for metro phase-IV: HC to CECThe petitioners had sought directions to the authorities, including DMRC, to change the nature of the project from overground to undergroun...
11 Feb, 2021, 01.12 PM IST
Contempt plea in HC against NBCC as cutting of trees continuesThe plea said that a police complaint has also been filed in this regard at Sarojini Nagar Police Station and sought contempt action agains...
27 Jun, 2018, 03.48 PM IST
Steel flyover junked, 800 trees saved; is it enough?The group has urged the government not to allow any tree-felling project until all of the related procedures and directions of the court ha...
20 Mar, 2017, 06.24 PM IST
NGT raps Delhi government over unauthorised constructions in South DelhiThe National Green Tribunal has rapped Delhi government, including the Public Works Department, over unauthorised constructions being carri...
13 Mar, 2015, 04.50 PM IST
Garden department issues notice to four for chopping treesThe garden department of Nagpur Municipal Corporation has issued a show cause notice to three residents of Pandey Layout and one resident o...
21 Sep, 2013, 02.31 AM IST
National Green Tribunal stays cutting of trees in Aravalli hillsThe National Green Tribunal has ordered an interim stay on cutting of trees in Manger village in Aravalli hills on a plea for withdrawing p...
08 Sep, 2013, 01.11 PM IST
- ‘More trees cut than permitted’
Taking note of the TOI report on excessive pruning of trees in Vasant Kunj, the forest department carried out a survey of the area on Sunda...
08 Jan, 2013, 02.58 AM IST
- Saving environment through court battles
About 15 years back, he fought for saving the Telangkhedi lake where illegal activities, including fishing, used to take place.
05 Jun, 2011, 01.30 AM IST
- ‘Uttarakhand CM must look into illegal felling of trees’
Environment minister Jairam Ramesh, reacting to a TOI report, has asked the Uttarakhand chief minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal, to intervene and ...
29 Dec, 2010, 02.13 AM IST
- Sterlite Industries accused of unlawful deforestation in Chhattisgarh
A subsidiary of the Vedanta mining group in India has been accused of clearing forest land allegedly in violation of Supreme Court orders.
18 Dec, 2010, 12.09 PM IST
- TN forest dept forced to fell 'polluting' trees
The Forest department is facing a strange situation -- large scale felling of cotton silk trees in reserve forest areas in this district as...
28 Aug, 2008, 03.14 PM IST