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Guwahati: National Green Tribunal (NGT), in an interim order issued on Saturday, stayed the Assam govt's directive to divert 1,600 Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) personnel to assist the police during the upcoming assembly elections.The govt order, issued by the special chief secretary, had instructed AFPF staff to report to the additional director general of police by April 3.A two-member NGT Eastern Zone bench, comprising judicial member Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi and expert member Ishwar S ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Eastern Zone Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stayed an Assam government order proposing the deployment of 1,600 personnel from the Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for election duty, days ahead of the Assembly polls scheduled for April 9. The development follows a report by Northeast Now that first flagged the issue, pointing to the large-scale deployment of frontline forest personnel from core duties such as anti-poaching patrols, prevention of illegal logging, ...Read More >
Handwara, Oct 16: Forest officials of the Forest Protection Force (FPF) foiled a major timber smuggling attempt in the Khanpura block of compartment 40, in Rajwar Range, Handwara on Thursday, officials said. Six accused have been booked after illegal timber was recovered from the area, Assistant Director FPF Manmeet Singh confirmed. Singh said that at around 3:30 am, the team received information about illegal timber extraction. "We immediately rushed to the site with my party. The main accuse ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 10 (PTI) The World Heritage Committee has removed three African heritage sites -- in Madagascar, Egypt and Libya -- from UNESCO's list of endangered sites, acknowledging successful efforts to mitigate threats and restore their cultural and ecological integrity. The decision was taken on July 9 during the ongoing 47th session of the World Heritage Committee (WHC) in Paris, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) said in a statement on Wednesday. ...Read More >
Himachal Pradesh Congress MLA Kuldeep Singh Rathore criticized the BJP for raising the Emergency issue to distract from governance failures. He accused them of undermining democracy and pressuring institutions. Rathore also highlighted environmental concerns over illegal logging after heavy rains. Kuldeep Singh Rathore, a Himachal Pradesh Congress MLA, has criticized the BJP for its focus on the Emergency issue, calling it a 'meaningless' distraction from their governance failures. Raising conc ...Read More >
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