The Central Empowered Committee (CEC) set up by the Supreme Court in the ongoing Kancha Gachibowli row at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) has come to the conc ...

Protests over the bulldozing of trees near the University of Hyderabad has highlighted the unique ecology supported by the urban forest.

The Telangana High Court has postponed the hearing regarding the alleged destruction of Kancha Gachibowli forest. The Forest Department requested a police investigation into a social media ...

Protests erupted over the Telangana government’s deforestation controversy related to the Kancha-Gachibowli land dispute ... fit into the broader picture of forest loss across India?

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao on Wednesday, April 16 welcomed the Supreme Court’s directive to restore the Kancha Gachibowli for ...

Instead, the Congress MP gives a speech on democratic politics that has fundamentally changed across the globe, and says the ...

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on April 16 a matter in which it had asked the Telangana government to explain the "compelling urgency" for clearing a large tree cover on a land parcel next ...

Kancha Gachibowli would likely qualify as forest land under the dictionary definition, as well as according to official land records which label it a ‘wasteland’ (typically denoting grasslands ...

What is the controversy surrounding Kancha Gachibowli? The dispute emerged ... has called for the area to be granted deemed forest status and even proposed its designation as a national park ...

of Kancha Gachibowli village, recorded as “Kancha Astabal Poramboke Sarkari” and assigned to the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) of which subject land is a part, appears to have all ...

The country’s biodiversity-rich forests are failing to appear in official records due to non-classification and legal loopholes, leading to fears over their protection.