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Friday, October 31, 2025
TopicForest dwellers

Topic: forest dwellers

NHRC, IGNFA collaborate for human rights training for forest officers

Officers urged to internalize UDHR, relevant laws to protect forest dwellers' rights.

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.

J&K names over 63,000 ‘encroachers’ of forest land, say they’re occupying 15,000 hectares

This year alone, the authorities have retrieved more than 550 hectares of forest land out of the illegally occupied 15,000 hectares, according to J&K administration officials.

Most of the 20 lakh forest dwellers facing eviction don’t know why they’re being ousted

The Supreme Court has ordered that the tribals and forest dwellers whose claims to forest land have been rejected should be evicted by July.

On Camera

Indian middle class is fed up with being paunchy and plump. Ozempic and Mounjaro are big hits

The instant success of weight loss drugs in India tells us how quickly the country is changing. And for once, the change is for the better.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

India pulled out of Tajikistan’s strategically important Ayni air base in 2022. Here’s why

Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.