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Dharmendra Pradhan along with other Odisha MPs meet Prakash Javadekar over
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 11 (ANI): Days after a fire devastated the Similipal forest division in Odisha, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and other MPs from the state on Wednesday met handed over a memorandum to Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, demanding his intervention in the
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Odisha cancels leaves of forest officials in wake of raging forest fires
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], March 10 (ANI): The Forest and Environment Department of Odisha on Wednesday cancelled the leaves of field forest officials in all divisions of the state in view of the forest fire alerts.
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Odisha deploys ODRAF teams to check forest fires in Simlipal
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) [India], March 9 (ANI): Odisha Government on Tuesday deployed Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) teams in Simlipal Forest Reserve, along with 100 additional fire squads and 700 fire blowers to check the ongoing forest fires.
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Uttarakhand CM announces measures to keep check on forest fires
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], February 12 (ANI): Additional officials have been appointed to check for forest fires, said Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Friday while announcing measures to keep a check on such fires in the state with the forest fire season expected
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Shivamogga forest dept. spreads awareness about preventing forest fires
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Shivamogga (Karnataka) [India], Jan 28 (ANI): In a bid to prevent forest fires in Shettihalli Wildlife Sanctuary, Shivamogga forest authorities have urged farmers not to burn their crop residue in the forest area for the next couple of months.
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Leonardo DiCaprio refutes Brazilian president's claim that he funded Amazo
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 1 (ANI): Leonard DiCaprio has refuted the accusations made by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that the Hollywood actor funded nonprofit organisations who are behind the Amazon forest fires.
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Climate change a global threat to human rights: Bachelet
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 10 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday said that climate change is a rapidly growing and a global threat to human rights and underlined that incidents like forest fires raging in the Amazon is "burning up our future"
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Major industrialised nations close to agreement on tackling Amazon forest
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Biarritz [France], Aug 26 (ANI): World leaders gathered at the G7 summit are nearing an agreement on how to help fight fires in the Amazon rainforest and try to repair the devastation, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday.
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Uttarakhand forest fires: SC asks petitioner to file additional documents
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday asked the petitioner to file additional documents in support of their Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which had sought urgent steps to protect the forest, wildlife and birds in the wake of the forest fires in Uttarakhand.
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Smoke arising out of forest fires engulfs Dharamshala
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Jun 12 (ANI): Dharamshala has been covered in thick smoke due to incidents of forest fire in and around the district.
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Over 500 cases of forest fires in Himachal Pradesh
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India] June 11 (ANI): Over 500 forest fire cases have been reported from Himachal Pradesh affecting an area of over 2600 hectare of forests in the state.
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Kumaraswamy directs officials to take precautionary measures to keep fores
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Karnataka [India], Feb 24 (ANI): Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Sunday directed the state's Forest Department officials to take preventive measures to keep the forest fires under check.
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