Days after the environment ministry relaxed rules to help create strategic defence infrastructure, the tribal affairs ministry refused to exempt these projects in the border states of north and nor

Forest attracts rainfall but the Khaer trees in Paton block of rain-shadow Palamau district attracted smugglers, turning the costly Khaer forest that produced delicious katha for paan (beetle) love

Tribals opposed to the formation of Rourkela into a municipal corporation have got a shot in the arm as the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs informed the the Odisha Government of the requirement of

As part of its effort to improve the ease of doing business and ensure predictable and expeditious forest clearances, the environment ministry will discuss changes to the Forest Rights Act with sta

NAGPUR: Even as tree felling between Mansar and Khawasa on NH-7 has started, debate over four-laning of the road fails to end.

Environment ministry readies draft, which allows industry to fell trees in traditional forest areas without consent of gram sabhas

People of Asanagiri and other girijan villages are strongly opposing mining of laterite in their area since it will deny them their livelihood and wipe out the caves in the Gangalamma Konda.

Senior tribal leader, Jayram Gamit, has been "mysteriously picked up” by the cops from Tapi district under the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA Act) ahead of a major protest the orga