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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicForest department

Topic: Forest department

J&K govt starts training officials on how to check documents of forest land ‘encroachers’

The J&K administration has already held a training session last week for its ‘frontline workers’ who are tasked to complete the job by 31 March 2021.

6 elephants dead in 9 days in Chhattisgarh, central team delays visit over quarantine fear

According to sources, a team of Centre's Wildlife Crime Control Bureau is avoiding a visit to investigate the deaths out of fears of being quarantined in view of Covid-19.

Activists suspect Chhattisgarh elephant deaths result of poaching, want shorter probe time

After 3 cow elephants were found dead last week on consecutive days, activists allege this could either be a case of poaching or intentional killing.

Chhattisgarh to spend Rs 225 crore to buy forest produce from tribals, bypass middle-men

State government hopes the decision will end middle-men monopoly on the procurement process, and provide a sustainable income for the tribals amid Covid-19 crisis. 

The woman forest guard who stared a tiger down for 90 minutes, and lived to tell the tale

IFS officers say staff brave dangers, but the job has little recognition and low pay. 

Government veterinary body alleges breach of law in tigress Avni’s killing

Veterinary Council of India claims only a registered veterinary doctor can administer tranquilliser, a rule that was not followed in Avni's case.

Killing Avni: Trigger-happy solution or failure of India’s tiger conservation policy?

Tigress Avni, who was being hunted for allegedly killing 13 people in the Pandharkawada-Ralegaon forests of eastern Maharashtra, was shot dead by hunter 'nawab'...

‘Trigger-happy’ hunter’s son kills tigress Avni, but no one’s saying how he got there

Avni, a suspected man-eater, was killed in a late-night operation in the small hours of Saturday.

Kejriwal govt says don’t have power to clear tree-felling requests, then reverses some

ThePrint had recently reported that the AAP administration had not rejected a single request to cut trees since assuming office in 2015.

Arvind Kejriwal govt has not rejected a single tree-cutting request since 2015

Delhi forest department records show the AAP administration has allowed the felling of more than 17,115 trees in three years. New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi...

On Camera

Biting terror, doggone dilemma, urban menace. Indian TV war over Delhi street dogs

News channels were also in two minds about removing stray dogs to the government dog pounds. NDTV took credit for it and CNN-News 18 called ‘controversial order’.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.