26,468 acres covering 937 lakes encroached on, says?Task Force report
City lakes have fallen prey in large numbers to the brazen encroachment by the City land mafia.

Unbridled encroachment has led to virtual extinction of lakes in Bangalore.

Task force report uncovers

Rejecting draft amendments of the forest act and wildlife conservation act, a rights organisation, Greater Sylhet Indigenous People's Forum (GSIPF), yesterday called upon the government not to enact the laws without taking opinion from mass people.

GSIPF also urged the similar organisations to raise greater movement against the section 2(8) of the draft wildlife conservation act where living pl

Protecting Guwahati

New Delhi In what could ease availability of land for industrial projects, a high-level government panel has recommended that all land held by the Centre should be inventoried with location mapping so that unused land could be easily identified and put up for sale to corporates under a public-private-partnership (PPP) model.

Encroachers to face FIR:
Shimla: The Forest Department has decided to register FIRs in all cases of encroachment on the forest land involving an area of more than 10 bighas, protected wildlife area, tempering with boundary pillars and raising of permanent structure.

It has also decided to set up a task force from the state level to the divisional level for ensuring coordinated action for the

The land encroachment at Munnar hill station has come under the scanner of the Congress-led UDF government, but it has no plan to send bulldozers to pull down the illegally-constructed resorts.

Urging all concerned including the Government, political parties and different organisations to shun their

It seems that things are becoming favourable for the ailing Gomti. The UP chief secretary had directed the irrigation department to restore the flow in the river and remove encroachment from its banks right from Pilibhit to Ghazipur.

The pro-encroachment lobby of Kerala