The Darjeeling district administration’s decision to grant permission to fell 515 trees in a single tea garden in Mirik has come as a shocker to environmentalists and local people. The manageme...

A motorcyclist was killed in Nadia’s Santipur after a kadam (burflower) tree fell on him while it was allegedly being cut by members of a tree felling racket. Khorshed Seikh, 52, a grocer from ...

The prime accused in the stoning and burning of a BJP worker in Jharkhand's Simdega district for allegedly illegally felling trees, which is against local tribal traditions, has been arrested, pol...

The Simdega administration, on the directive of Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren, has constituted a six-member preliminary fact-finding committee on the lynching of a 26-year-old man by a mob of ...

Palamau Tiger Reserve is in immediate need of a powered patrol boat to monitor the forests where illegal tree felling and smuggling of logs are rampant. Deputy director South division, Mukesh Kumar s...

High Court of Sikkim has barred the state government from felling any more trees to facilitate the execution of the Gangtok Smart City Project and sought details on the 121 trees that had already been...

Tens of thousands of poplars are poised to face the axe in Kashmir, thanks to a government order to lop or fell them that cites pollen-related infections in the wake of the “spread of Covid-19”.Wh...

Seventeen full-grown trees have been felled at a ground owned by the state agricultural department in Buniadpur in South Dinajpur allegedly to make space for a proposed public meeting by chief ministe...

The district is losing much of its green cover to the timber mafia with state government officials pleading helplessness in the absence of adequate manpower to stop the carnage.The felling of trees ha...

Newly-elected Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said that he has stopped the Aarey metro car shed project till a decision is taken on it.'I have ordered to stop the work of Aarey m...