There has always been a question of confusion about which one is India's national tree-the banyan or the Peepal. Both of the ...
Forests of native trees and plants once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains in southern India, but nearly 200 years ago, ...
In ‘Iconic Trees of India’, S Natesh tells the stories of 75 living trees. From the oldest Chinar in Kashmir to the speaking ...
Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna recused himself from hearing pleas related to the alleged illegal felling of trees in ...
The objective of the campaign was to plant 1.4bln new saplings, equivalent to India’s population in a one-year time frame ...
The Union Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) and Forest Survey of India (FSI) have refuted the data of the Global Forest Watch monitoring project, which said the country lost 2 ...
Chandigarh: A large number of trees will be axed before city’s first bulk market can come into existence. The UT administration has identified 352 trees on the 45-acre land in Sector 56, where ...
This characteristic allows the banyan tree to cover large areas, providing bigger shade and shelter areas. In many Indian villages, the banyan tree serves as a central gathering place for the ...
The Bench ordered the listing of the pleas before a Bench of which the CJI was not part in the week commencing November 27.