The High Court on Tuesday directed the tahsildar, Bangalore South, to clear encroachments around Sarakki lake in Jaraganahalli, Sarakki and Puttenahalli villages within six weeks

The ashram of controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu in the ecologically sensitive central ridge of the capital has a "large number" of illegal constructions, the National Green Tribunal (NGT

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed the authorities concerned to take effective measures to reclaim illegally occupied parts of the Buriganga river and free it of pollution.

CHENNAI: Encroachers will now have to think twice before illegally constructing or taking up settlement on the dry beds of water bodies.

CHITTAGONG: The national river taskforce took a decision to free all the canals of Chittagong from encroachers through demolishing the illegal structures on their banks within one month.

Thirteen rivers of Jhenidah are at the edge of disappearance, all of them face increasingly lower navigability and grabbing by encroachers.

The government yesterday asked the administration to take stern action against river grabbing and pollution and not to bow to any pressure from politicians.

Comptroller and Auditor General of India has rapped successive governments in Kerala over irregularities by the promoters in acquiring land for the private airport project at Aranmula, work on whic