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CAQM Sub-Committee for invoking actions under GRAP holds emergency meeting
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
"While comprehensively reviewing the overall air quality parameters, the Sub-Committee noted that the sudden spike in the overall AQI of Delhi is due to a dip in temperature, calm winds, poor mixing heights and unfavourable ventilation coefficient for dispersion of pollutants and the air qua
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BSF deploys women guards in Sundarbans on India-Bangladesh border
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In a major step symbolizing women empowerment, Border Security Force (BSF) South Bengal Frontier for the first time deployed Mahila Praharis to protect the international border passing through the marshy and inaccessible Sundarbans area surrounded by vast dense forests and rivers.
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Study finds logged tropical forests are surprisingly vibrant and need prot
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Logging affects many of the world's tropical forests, and such forests are often considered degraded because they have lost vegetation structure, biomass and carbon stocks. But there has rarely been analysis of whether the ecological health and functionality of these ecosystems are similarly
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The Habitats Trust Lauded Wildlife Conservation Efforts as it announced Wi
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 19 (ANI/BusinessWire India): The Habitats Trust, founded by Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson of HCLTech announced the recipients of The Habitats Trust Grants 2022 today at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. The Habitats Trust Grants is an annual initiative by The Habita
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Goals, targets set in Global Biodiversity Framework should be realistic: B
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav on Sunday said that the goals and targets set in the Global Biodiversity Framework should be ambitious, yet realistic and practical.
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Sonear Group's Jitendra Kejriwal bags ET Inspiring Leaders Award
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI/GPRC): Sonear Group, a premier interior solutions brand, announced that its founder Jitendra Kejriwal has bagged the prestigious ET Inspiring Leaders - North 2022 for Innovation in Veneer Design, recognising his exemplary contribution in driving the interi
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Several initiatives taken to secure forests, government tells Rajya Sabha
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Ministry has also launched National Transit Pass System on a pilot basis for the issue of online transit permits.
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3, including child, killed as herd of wild elephants attacks cars in Assam
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
At least three persons, including a child, were killed and two others injured after they were attacked by a herd of wild elephants in Assam's Goalpara district on Thursday, said Dhruba Dutta, the forest range officer of Lakhipur.
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Some bones found in forests near Delhi belonged to Shraddha Walkar: Delhi
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Some of the remains of the body parts recovered from forests in Mehrauli and Gurugram belonged to Shraddha Walkar, the Delhi Police informed on Thursday.
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Study reveals how humans first walked upright in trees
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Human bipedalism, or walking erect on two legs, may have developed in trees rather than on the ground, as previously supposed.
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TN Minister R. Sakkarapani and his team to plant 6 lakh trees to set elite
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI/SRV): Tamil Nadu's Food and Civil Supplies Minister R.Sakkarapani and his team have set out to create a new Elite World Records by planting 6 Lakh trees in just 4 hours, in a bid to honour a pledge and mission "Green Tamil Nadu" Initiated by Chief Minister
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DNA from recovered bones match with Shraddha Walkar's father; police to ad
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The DNA samples of the bones recovered from the forests of Mehrauli and Gurugram have matched with Shraddha Walkar's father, sources said on Thursday.
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