New Delhi: For felling nearly 1,000 trees at Siri Fort Sports Complex to build basketball and squash courts for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) may have to cough up Rs 5 crore as penalty to be utilised for regreening the area.

BEHRAMPORE, Jan. 22: A raintree at the heart of Behrampore town was saved from being cut down today by green activists Jatiya Sabuj Bahini and Paschimbango Biggyan Mancho, helped by students from Maharani Kashi Sheri Girl's School and KM College School, who were led by their teachers in the protest.

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ISLAMABAD: The government will plant of 70 million saplings all over the country during the Spring Tree Planting Campaign 2009 beginning from the last week of January, officials decided on Monday.

Ahmedabad: Gujarat High Court on Monday barred the authorities from felling trees on Bopal-Ghuma road and asked various government departments, as well as Ghuma Grampanchayat, to explain the issue on Tuesday.

Utkarsh Anand Posted: Jan 17, 2009 at 0127 hrs IST

New Delhi: A city court has recently directed 67-year-old Surender Vasudeva to grow 210 trees as punishment for chopping down 42 in June 2003.

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Mumbai: The Bombay Environmental Action Group (BEAG) on Wednesday complained to the Bombay High Court about what it called

New Delhi: Asked to prune, they hacked the trees. That

Mumbai: When Mumbai

Studies were conducted with eight tree species in natural grassland for 15 years (July 1988 to June 2003) under semi arid condition to select suitable tree species for introduction in natural grassland/sown pasture for higher production.

In the present study, red lateritic soil and farmyard manure were used in seven compositions for raising seedlings of Albizia amara. The emergence of seedlings increased with increasing the ratio of farmyard manure (67.7 to 89.3%) while pure farmyard manure lodged 71.4%.

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