New Delhi, April 2 The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday stayed an order of the Assam government seeking the deployment of around 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force personnel for the April 9 Assembly polls in the northeastern state.The NGT's eastern zonal bench in Kolkata, comprising...
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Shimla, March 19 BJP legislators on Thursday protested against the "illegal" felling of trees in the Shallai area of Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, and said that more than 300 pine trees were cut under the administration's nose.BJP MLAs, holding placards with slogans like "Remove the...
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Shahdol, February 19 A team of forest department employees were taken hostage by timber smugglers in Shahdol district, Madhya Pradesh, before quick intervention by the police led to their rescue, an official said on Thursday.The hostage situation occurred in the night of February 18-19 in the...