HYDERABAD:With the Hyderabad Metro Rail project picking up momentum, environmental activists and concerned citizens are raising their voice against the destruction of trees in the city. About 3,000 trees need to be removed or translocated in the three metro rail corridors. Of them, the HMR corporation has already felled 340 and translocated 384 but is finding it difficult to uproot 3 others on the LB Nagar-Miyapur stretch where the initial...
09:25 AM, May 07, 2012
BANGALORE: While the citys environmentalists are battling tooth and nail to win back the title of the Green city, the ever expanding infrastructure leaves a little to be achieved in this regard. For instance, the city puffed its shoulders a decade back for being the most clean and green city in the entire country, but today the greenery is depleting and smoke and grime veil the dream of winning this...
09:19 AM, May 07, 2012
Shivpuri: The Chipko movement, 40 years ago, was India's first green movement and one of our first green heroes is Chandi Prasad Bhatt. In the 1970s across Uttaranchal, rural women gave a cry to 'hug the trees' in protest against a government plan to chop the ancient trees. One of the activists from the region Chandi said, "Chipko meant "Hug the trees". When the government sent the woodcutters, we would...
07:27 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Shortage of trained nut pluckers is a grim farm sector problem in Kerala but for 37-year-old Selvin Chacko coconut plucking is a hi-tech profession involving car, mobile and even a dedicated website. While many youngsters looked down upon coconut plucking as a less-esteemed career, Selvin from Changanassery has opted for it with "career pride and pleasure" and keeping in tune with the changing times he is using modern facilities...
01:24 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Coimbatore: A bus conductor in Tamil Nadu has planted over 1 lakh trees across the state in the last 25 years. The conductor M Yoganathan is known as the Tree Man of the south. Yoganathan is a regular on the S-26 bus that runs on the Marudamalai-Gandhipuram route in Coimbatore. He has been a bus conductor for the past 25 years and is always on the go. "I can do...
11:25 AM, Aug 12, 2011
An ecological catastrophe is in the making in Orissa where more than six lakh trees are being cut at the POSCO site in Jagatsinghpur district for the south korean steel plant. The farmers in Orissa are protesting against the felling of six lakh trees at the POSCO site. More then 50,000 have already been cut down and nearly six lakh more trees are to go. The district administration is going ...
08:09 AM, Aug 08, 2011
Bangalore: In an innovative attempt to check cutting of trees in Bangalore, residents have decided to climb trees and perch there overnight to send a message to the authorities. It is a campaign that local residents and environmental groups have been carrying on for nearly two weeks now with some glamour quotient as singer Vasundhara Das also joined in. Desperate problems call for desperate solutions and after feeling betrayed by...
08:49 AM, Jul 19, 2011
Bhagalpur: India has the worst record in South Asia when it comes to the sex ratio. Its 914 girls for every 1000 boys under the age of six. But in one village in Bihar, it's a privilege to be a girl. Being a girl child is a privilege in Dhahra village of Bhagalpur, Bihar. For every girl born, villagers plant 10 mango trees. The result, this is the greenest stretch ...
09:34 AM, May 18, 2011
Bhagalpur: India has the worst record in South Asia when it comes to the sex ratio. Its 914 girls for every 1000 boys under the age of six. But in one village in Bihar, it's a privilege to be a girl. Being a girl child is a privilege in Dhahra village of Bhagalpur, Bihar. For every girl born, villagers plant 10 mango trees. The result, this is the greenest stretch...
09:34 AM, May 18, 2011
Falling trees and branches have caused three accidents in the last three months in Mumbai. ...
03:36 PM, Sep 09, 2010
The Yedyurappa Govt is accused of auctioning the trees at cheap rates. ...
11:59 PM, Jul 28, 2009
The best way to combat nature's fury is to give back to nature. ...
02:38 PM, Jun 11, 2009
It has installed 1,300 bins at main dealers' shops across the country. ...
03:11 PM, Jun 05, 2009
MCD has chosen to go for the green lungs of Delhi once again. ...
06:04 PM, Mar 29, 2009
This is the second controversy since the filming began. ...
12:14 AM, Mar 10, 2009
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