The Centre has read the message wrong, once again. Environmental activists have been urging the government to ‘go green’ by protecting India’s forests. But it seems more interested i...

The JMM on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission, alleging that the Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar’s withdrawal last week of the controversial draft amendment to th...

The recorded forest area in India stands at 24.56 per cent; but the actual forest cover is only 21.67 per cent. Not all notified forests are ‘forests’. The first national forest policy in 1952 set...

Things are not always as they seem. This was evident, once again, in the draft proposal made by the Union government to ‘overhaul’ the Indian Forest Act, 1927, introduced in the colonial era by th...

CPM politburo member Brinda Karat on Wednesday demanded the withdrawal of the proposed amendments to the Indian Forest Act, 1927, billing the changes as repressive and way beyond what the British had ...

The Narendra Modi government has withdrawn controversial draft amendments to the Indian Forest Act ahead of the Jharkhand Assembly elections following sharp criticism that the changes would give exces...

Union environment minister Prakash Javadekar, who was in the state capital on Sunday, said the now-scrapped controversial draft amendment to the Indian Forest Act 1927 had been mooted by his departmen...

While due process is important in any investigation or verification exercise, what is equally crucial is the rigour with which such an endeavour is conducted. It is this rigour that will eliminate, to...