On February 3 this year, the Supreme Court issued an interim order restraining the Central and state governments from cutting ...

Tezpur: Union Minister Kirti Vardhan Singh’s claim in the Lok Sabha that Assam boasts the highest forest cover in India has been challenged by official data revealing a starkly different reality.

In terms of percentage of forest cover with respect to total geographical area, Lakshadweep (91.33 percent) has the highest forest cover followed by Mizoram (85.34 percent) and Andaman & Nicobar ...

The report also showed that several states, including Mizoram, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Manipur, maintain forest cover above ...