V. Balasubramanian, Chairman of the Task Force for Recovery of Public Land and its Protection, at a press conference in Bangalore on July 4.

After Bellary, Tumkur district has emerged as a hotbed of rampant illegal mining activities in the State.

Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka on Tuesday called on the government to form an independent

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.