Jharkhand has asked the Centre to rein in Public Sector Units (PSUs) from carrying out

CHENNAI: A draft Fishermen Rights Bill will be introduced in Parliament in December to protect the traditional rights of fishermen. It will be modelled on the Forest Rights Act, or The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006.

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Gandhinagar: With Union minister of state (independent charge) for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh planning to visit Gujarat, especially Gir Sanctuary, forest department officials here are working overtime to showcase conservation of the Asiatic Lion in the state.

THE Centre would soon ink an agreement with the United States Patent and Trade Marks Office (USPTO) as part of its efforts to protect India's traditional knowledge in medicine, said Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh here on Wednesday.

UNION Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh said he would shortly be visiting China to study ways to increase the country's forest cover.

THE country's record on environment is pathetic, Union Minister of Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh has admitted.

CHENNAI: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has initiated steps to let the draft Coastal Zone Management notification, 2008 lapse and strengthen the existing Coastal Regulation Zone notification.

This has been stated by Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State, in his letter of August 8 to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, according to an official release issued here on Wednesday.

CHENNAI: Rules under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 will be revised by November this year to ensure equitable sharing of revenue from commercial use of biological diversity with the community, said Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday.

He was speaking at the inauguration of an office of the National Biodiversity Authority here.

In a major attempt to protect the interest of coastal inhabitants facing the axe for Coastal Regulatory Zone violations, the Goa government has requested the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) to amend the CRZ regulations with relaxations to the State vis-

New Delhi: In greater evidence that climate change and environmental concerns are gaining greater space in policy and government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday asked the state ministers for environment and forests to prepare climate change action plans consistent with the National Action Plan that he is spearheading.