Minister of environment Jairam Ramesh insists that no rules were changed to benefit the powerful Congress MP Navin Jindal's company Jindal Power and Steel Ltd.

In a written statement, Mr Ramesh insisted that he was not aware that his ministry had issued a circular on January 6 2011 revising the guidelines to the Forest Conservation Act 1980.

The earlier guideline had stated that all projects

GoM, headed by Pranab Mukherjee, was scheduled to meet on Friday
The Government has deferred a meeting of a group of ministers that will classify forests into

They can harvest rainwater and use it for watering plants
Namakkal: District Forest Officer (DFO) Ashish Kumar Srivastava expressed confidence that educational institutions of this district could play a major role in increasing the district's green cover.

Speaking at the World Forestry Day celebration organised at a private college here on Monday, he said the district had only 16 per cent of f

The promise of the FRA remains largely unfulfilled, says a committee set up by the Ministries of Environment and Forests and Tribal Affairs.
IT seems hard for a government used to controlling most of India's common lands to let go of them.

Ranchi, March 4: It

Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs) from across the country have taken serious exception to the government

Hundreds of projects including Tata Steel's 5.5 MTPA integrated steel plant in Bastar, Reliance Industries