New Delhi: Security is an issue, especially when it has to be provided to the plants. The NDMC (New Delhi Municipal Council) is facing the challenge to protect its greens from the city

Damage to trees during the dredging of Kestopur canal has prompted the forest department to ask the Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) to stop the work, if necessary.

The NWFP Minister for Population Welfare, Saleem Khan has said that the provincial government would take steps at provincial and district levels to stop illegal cutting of forests in Chitral and control the smuggling of timber from Chitral to down district.

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The High Court has directed the BBMP to adhere to the Town and Country Planning Act -1961 and Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act- 1976, while widening the roads.

Mulund: The octroi department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to cut down 230 full-grown trees as part of a beautification project and for extension of the yard near Hari Om Nagar in Mulund east. The process of felling has already begun and almost the entire green stretch of trees next to the highway police chowky has been razed.

Mumbai: Over 25 trees have been felled recently on a land owned by Airport Authority of India (AAI). Residents fear that sooner or later, this plot of land, a green zone, will be encroached by slum dwellers.

Tariq Mehmood Khan, Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA) has said on Wednesday that 2.4 million saplings would be planted in the Federal Capital of Islamabad during the next three years under the Clean and Green Islamabad programme.

The Gajner police in Bikaner has registered a case over the cutting of Khejri trees during the shooting of Veer, starring Salman Khan. The shooting of the movie has been going on for the past five days in and around Bikaner. Salman and other actors also camping in Bikaner for the shooting.