at a recent national consultation, the Union ministry of environment and forest's ( mef) draft bill proposing a legislation to check the piracy of Indian medicinal plants and microbes, was

The Supreme Court (SC), on May 8 and 9, issued its latest order on the issue of the ban on non-forest, activities in the country. On December 12,1996, the apex court had imposed a blanket ban on

WHILE inaugurating the Sixth Tribal Literary Conference in Nashik recently, Lok Sabha speaker P A Sangma called for the implementation of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution through-out tribal

The failure of the government to ban lethal pesticides, used to control the spread of malaria, poses a hazard to human health

Medicinal plant biodiversity is rapidly vanishing in India and the government has still to come up with a plan of action

Public interest litigations come under a cloud once again as the Prime Minister questions their viability