FAO’s Green-Ag project in India integrates forests and agriculture through agroecology across five diverse landscapes: Mizoram, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Rajasthan.
With monsoon onset in Delhi, govt has begun large-scale plantation drives across public lands. Miyawaki, afforestation technique named after Japanese botanist, is a quick greening method.
A group of 91 retired officers who served in govt has written to environment ministry urging it to withdraw a notification outlining green credit rules, calling them 'unscientific'.
Forest Conservation (Amendment) Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha Wednesday. It aims to
‘remove ambiguities’ surrounding the applicability of the 1980 law.
Accredited compensatory afforestation scheme allows developers to buy afforested land from private or public entities, instead of finding non-forest land & bearing afforestation cost.
Detailed project reports of the rivers were prepared by Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education & released Monday. Project looks at creating riparian forests for river rejuvenation
The panel says environment ministry hasn't responded to committee's observation on lack of human resources in forest departments, wants it to submit action taken report.
Speaking at the Rajya Sabha Monday, the environment minister said India is ahead of other countries in reducing emissions and increasing afforestation.
Uttar Pradesh has planted 1,15,145 trees every year with a survival rate of 91-100%. Tamil Nadu has a survival rate of 95% & plants 24,094 trees on every year, data shows.
Tarun Tahiliani, Anita Dongre, Ritu Kumar, Rohit Bal, to Gaurav Gupta. Only the finale designers from LFW’s journey were on stage. Manish Arora, Wendell Rodricks and Sabysachi were absent.
RBI lifted ceiling on interchange fee on ATM withdrawals through circular issued Friday. Interchange fee is amount one bank pays another to facilitate ATM transactions.
Defence exports grew by 12.04% year-on-year. MoD says 1,762 export authorisation were issued in FY2024-25 compared to 1,507 in the preceding financial year.
Trump threatening to pull the trigger might be just what is needed to wake up India’s self-congratulatory establishment from its headline-managing fantasies.
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