Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday slammed National Green Tribunal (NGT), for issuing orders without thinking and without being aware of the reality in Goa.

District Coordination Officer Muhammad Asif Qureshi has said that 500,000 saplings would be planted in the district till April 30.

Tripura has kept its top position for the fifth consecutive year for offering 66 person–days so far in the current fiscal in executing the central government’s flagship rural jobs scheme MGNREGS, a

About 3.4 million saplings would be planted in Rawalpindi region during current spring tree plantation campaign 2014.

BHEL organized a mass plantation programme at Padmanabham Nagar here on Sunday. Around 2,000 saplings are to be planted in the area out of which 500 were planted on Sunday.

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will start a tree plantation campaign from March 5, and over 600,000 saplings will be planted during the drive.

Only 2.1 percent of Pakistan had forest cover which is worsening the impact of extreme weather and contributing to tragedies such as floods.

This will be for tribals who have been granted land rights

Barely a week ahead of the announcement of general election, the UPA government plans to provide an additional 50 days’ employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) for tribals who have been granted land rights, provided they have no other private land and they have already completed 100 days of work under the Act in that financial year.

China is on track to meet its 2020 target for expanding the nation's forests to cover 23 percent of its landmass to combat climate change and soil erosion, the State Forestry Administration (SFA) s