“There’s something universally pleasant about it.” But its very mystique has brought the tree to near extinction. Sandalwood, with its oblong light-green leaves and twiggy branches, is a ...

Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Wednesday ordered Central Railway to disburse Rs50 lakh as interim ...

The Central Railway was ordered by the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court to deposit Rs 1 crore as interim compensation for a 100-year-old red sandalwood tree on a farmer’s land. The railway ...

It was only in 2013-14, during a railway survey for a proposed route, that a group of officials from Karnataka accompanying the survey team recognized the tree as Rakta Chandan (Red Sandalwood), a ...

Amar Narayana, IAS officer (retd), has urged the Karnataka government to grant authority to the Horticulture Department to determine the scientific value of the sandalwood trees grown by farmers ...