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Topic: Trees

Old Haryana trees, Rs 3000 pension and the long red tape

Haryana’s Pran Vayu Devta scheme pays annual pensions to trees over 75 to keep the state’s old giants in good health. Many are still waiting.

Over 3.68 lakh trees to be ‘affected’ for Adani mining project in Chhattisgarh, Centre tells LS

New Delhi: Over 3.68 lakh trees will be cut in Chhattisgarh’s Hasdeo Arand for the Parsa East Kente Basan (PEKB) coal mines—an Adani Enterprises...

Google Doodle doesn’t tell full story of Chipko Movement. It began well before Gaura Devi

The popular characterisation of the Chipko movement as an ‘eco-feminist movement’ that started on 26 March 1974 is true, but only partially.

A tree on India-Pakistan border is a tourist magnet. It’s a Peepal that swallowed a pillar

In ‘Iconic Trees of India’, S Natesh tells the stories of 75 living trees. From the oldest Chinar in Kashmir to the speaking fig tree in the Andaman jail.

Defence Ministry plans campaign to plant 15 lakh trees across country on Independence Day

The initiative is part of the ‘Ek PedMaa Ke Naam' (A Tree in the Name of Mother) campaign.

How a derelict Greater Noida factory became a sealed ‘crime’ scene after tree massacre

The former Daewoo Motors factory in Greater Noida was sealed after a real-estate company was caught brazenly felling trees not once, but twice. It’s a first for a private property here.

SubscriberWrites: Shades of green in Delhi

Delhi needs dense layered greening by native canopy trees, shrubs, grasses and herbs to regulate temperature, conserve water, and control pollution.

How much does your tree weigh? The answer is in space

Tracking those tree weight dynamics over large areas delivers new insights into the climate impact achieved by forest conservation and restoration projects.

Aarey car shed: SC lets Mumbai Metro cut 177 trees but fines it Rs 10 lakh for contempt of court

MMRCL had informed SC in 2019 that it needed to fell 84 trees in Aarey Forest for metro car shed, but later sought permission from officials to cut 185.

9 months after NGT order, Haryana govt works on policy to curb tree felling in non-forest areas

Govt to devise mechanism to ensure trees duly planted as compensatory afforestation if permission is granted for felling. Official says provision already exists & issue is implementation.

On Camera

Inflation no longer dictated by just monsoon, repo rate. Why India needs a trade exposure index

A monthly publication of the Trade Exposure Inflation Index would enable markets, analysts, and the public to observe how much of inflation is actually imported versus how much is domestically generated.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.