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`200,000 hectares forest land diverted in four years`

Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 21:48

Over 8,000 projects, involving a diversion of 200,000 hectares of forest land, have been cleared by the central government in four years and this was double the clearances given in three decades, environmentalist Sunita Narain said here Friday.

NGT prohibits dumping of rubble in ridge area

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 21:12

National Green Tribunal today prohibited dumping of debris in reserved forest area of the ridge here and directed the DDA and the Public Works Department (PWD) to remove the rubble thrown there.

Illegal arms factory unearthed, eight held

Last Updated: Sunday, April 7, 2013, 16:05

Eight persons were arrested for allegedly running an illegal arms manufacturing factory in Bhimbundh forest area of the district, police said.

Tribunal stops Himachal project in forests

Last Updated: Sunday, November 25, 2012, 21:35

In a setback to hydropower project in HP, a judicial panel hearing environment-related cases has stopped authorities from utilising forest area.

Cuba plans to increase forest area

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 12:22

Cuba is developing a National Forest Programme to increase the nation`s freen cover, the Granma official daily reported.

AP: Cops nab Maoists, seize arms during combing operations

Last Updated: Friday, August 3, 2012, 23:39

Police arrested five CPI (Maoist) dalam members and seized weapons during a combing operation in a forest in Andhra Pradesh`s Khammam district.

Skeleton found in Maoist-hit forest area

Last Updated: Sunday, August 7, 2011, 20:52

A skeleton was unearthed from a jungle at Salbani in Maoist-hit West Midnapore district, police said.