The Kerala Forest Department rejected the proposal of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for the diversion of ...

Gurgaon: Union environment minister Bhupender Yadav hasasked Haryana govt to formulate a comprehensive strategy to transform ...

A total of Rs 94,843 crore has been collected from user agencies as compensatory levies for forest land diversion till date, the government informed Parliament on Thursday. Union Minister of State for ...

The Supreme Court has directed the Union and state governments not to reduce forest land unless an equal amount of ...

"We further order that until further orders, no steps will be taken by the Union of India and any state which will lead to reduction of forest land," the bench said. It said in cases where use of ...

In an order of significant import, the Supreme Court on February 3 directed that the Central government or States shall not ...

The rail line project between West Bengal’s Sevoke and Sikkim’s Rangpo has faced several challenges, such as connectivity disruption on NH-10, poor rock strata in tunnels and pendency of proposed ...

While the proposal has got a nod from the Karnataka Forest Department (KFD), locals allege that the proposed alignment passes through encroached forest land as per historical imagery. They say the ...

Karnataka’s Additional Chief Secretary for Forest Ecology and Environment, Anjum Parvez, speaking at the India Today ...

In February last year, the top court took note of the definition of forest under the 2023 amended law on conservation left ...

The Supreme Court has restrained the Centre and states from taking steps that would reduce forest land, mandating ...

The amended Forest Conservation Act of 2023 allows state governments to use private investment in forest management including commercial activities. The Madhya Pradesh government plans to hand ...