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The Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board plans to develop the 70-acre park in two phases. A work order — amounting to Rs 10.9 crore — for developing 15 acres in the first phase has been awarded to a construction firm, according to officials.

Bengaluru rain: Purple Line Metro services affected for two hours after tree falls on viaduct

Heavy rains lashed Bengaluru, causing waterlogging and uprooting trees in many areas, leading to traffic snarls on the roads

Green clearance delays may push construction of new Delhi metro line to 2025

The Delhi Forest Department has asked for the project to be modified so that fewer trees are cut down. Accordingly, the DMRC is now looking to re-align the metro towers.

World's 'oldest' tree able to reveal planet's secrets

Known as the 'Great Grandfather', the tree in Chile is on the brink of replacing Methuselah, a 4,850-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine found in California.

SC to hear Mumbai's Aarey colony tree felling matter on November 24

A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices Hima Kohli and J B Pardiwala took note of the submissions of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) that there was a need to fell 84 trees.

Mumbai activists demand that the tree geo-tagging information be made public

Environment activists and mapping technology experts assert that when the information about geo-tagged trees in cities such as Mumbai are made public, the citizens can track the trees. This in turn, improves governance and public participation in tree conservation.

Maha inks MoU with NHAI to plant trees along National Highways

The project involves planting trees in the next two years along 10,000 km national highways that pass through the state beginning from March 2017.

Maha to appoint 1 cr 'tree ambassadors' to conserve forests

The announcement to this effect was made by state Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar after he inaugurated a 'Transit Treatment Centre' for wildlife here yesterday.