Mangaluru : The BJP demanded on Saturday that the State government and B. Ramanath Rai, Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology in particular should reveal the contents of the report on the recommendations of Kasturirangan Committee Report to be submitted to the Union government. Addressing presspersons after the party’s district committee meeting Pratapsimha Nayak, president, […]

Mangalore : Members of the Communist Party of India(CPI) on Friday  Nov 7  staged a protest against stoppage of eviction of forest dwellers if the area they lived was defined as eco-sensitive in the Kasturirangan Committee report. H.V. Rao, CPI District Committee member, said a large number of families living in forests face a threat […]

Bangalore: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday assured people residing in eco-sensitive zones of Kodagu district under the Western Ghats that they would not be displaced. The zones were demarcated in a controversial report on Western Ghats by the  Kasturirangan committee. Speaking to reporters after meeting with a delegation from Kodagu district here, Siddaramaiah said the […]