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Steepletop, the former home of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, was selected as one of four grant recipients in a new partnership, the Forest Conservation Easements for Land

A Harford County Circuit Court judge has granted an injunction to halt the tree clearing at the proposed Abingdon Woods development project

A Harford County Circuit Court judge has granted an injunction to halt the tree clearing at the proposed Abingdon Woods development project

Our CorrespondentKohima, Sep. 20 (EMN): Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, YM Yollow, stated that both private and government-occupied lands come under Forest Conservation Act. The minister said the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, is applicable not only to “forest land” as in section-2 of the Act but also includes “forest” as understood in the dictionary as per a Supreme Court judgement dated December 12, 1996. “Subsequently, it has further been clari...

A special joint operation launched by the Sri Lankan Navy and the Sri Lanka Coast Guard led to the interception of an Indian boat carrying about 434 kilos (wet weight) of Kerala cannabis. Five Indian suspects were also arrested with the contraband.The fishermen detained with 130 million rupee worth of ganja were T. Rikshan of […]

By Chitra Weerarathne The Magisterial inquiry against Rev. Fr. Amila Jeevantha Pieris is to continue before the Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage.The Magistrate issued summons on the priest on the charge of having disregarded a magisterial order and gone walking with a group of protesters along York Street, Fort, which had been street had been declared […]

Murder of Medagamuwe Mahanama Thera By Hemantha Randunu The monk who was arrested for murdering the chief incumbent of the Nandanarama Temple, Wettewa, has confessed on Thursday that he sold the chief incumbent’s vehicles and wanted to go to Dubai to live with his girlfriend.The victim, Medagamuwe Mahanama Thera, had a Defender Jeep and a […]

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NHAI will have to raze off 9.58 hectares of deemed forest land having more than 5,100 trees to construct the Delhi- Saharanpur highway

Set up in colonial times, local institutions, called Van Panchayats, have played an effective role in managing and protecting forests in Uttarakhand