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Re-rooting...: Meet the man saving trees by the thousands, with a simple formula

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Peddireddi and his Vata Foundation operate mainly in Telangana and Maharashtra. The thing about translocation is it takes time, he says. ‘It takes about 21 days: trim branches, isolate roots, allow fresh leaves and roots to sprout. Then move the tree.’
art culture
Updated on Jul 11, 2026 02:22 pm IST

A 700-year old tree in Bihar's Munger just entered history books; here's why

A banyan tree in Bihar's Munger, estimated to be around 700 years old, has been identified as the oldest accurately dated banyan tree using radiocarbon dating.
india news
Published on Jul 04, 2026 05:59 pm IST

Activists oppose felling of 150-year-old Banyan tree for road widening in Thane

The tree, located near the Highland–Hill Spring–Runwal Golden City belt, is considered by activists to be a heritage specimen. (Praful Gangurde/HT Photo)
mumbai news
Published on Apr 29, 2026 05:26 am IST

BMC sends notice to Bandra salon for painting tree, seeks FIR

BMC sends notice to Bandra salon for painting tree, seeks FIR
mumbai news
Published on Apr 28, 2026 03:42 am IST

Vat Savitri 2025: Vrat katha, date, fasting timings, significance and more

Vat Savitri vrat is an auspicious day that honours love and harmony in marriage. They go around the banyan tree and perform holy ritual.
festivals
Updated on May 27, 2025 11:10 am IST

A horticulturist bids adieu to the magnificent trees of TIFR

The campus has a gigantic Banyan tree, whose canopy spreads out over 6,000 square feet. (Raju Shinde/HT Photo)
mumbai news
Published on May 23, 2025 09:24 am IST

SoBo sees 2 banyan tree collapse deaths in 2 days

A huge tree fell outside the Parel ST Depot, which killed one women. (Anshuman Poyrekar/ Hindustan Times)
others
Updated on Jul 03, 2024 07:58 am IST

Delhiwale: New time for timeless Turkman

The lush banyan tree stands by the old marble grave. (HT Photo)
delhi news
Updated on May 07, 2024 04:40 pm IST

Delhiwale: The hajamat arbour

Anwar’s pavement stall beside central Delhi’s Gole Market is austere. (HT Photo)
delhi news
Updated on Mar 12, 2024 06:04 am IST

The Banyans of Chevella are safe for now

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The activists of Save Banyans of Chevella on National Highway 163
india news
Published on Nov 10, 2023 09:49 pm IST

Telangana: Decoding fine print of NGT order to highway authority

A Banyan tree has the ability to survive for hundreds of years in a tropical climate. (HT Photo)
india news
Updated on Nov 10, 2023 07:32 am IST

Madras HC upholds conviction of 217 officials in Vachathi atrocities

The court criticised the then All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government led by late chief minister J Jayalalithaa for not taking the crime seriously and of colluding with the real smuggler. (PTI)
india news
Updated on Sept 30, 2023 09:06 am IST

150-year-old Banyan, imported from India, struggles to survive in Hawaiian blaze

The reason for its harvest was the 50th anniversary of the first American protestant missionary in Lahaina — a monumental event that forever altered Lahaina’s trajectory, it states. (AFP)
world news
Published on Aug 11, 2023 10:58 pm IST

100-year-old banyan tree brought back to life in Telangana

A 100-year-old banyan tree was brought back to life by a nature lover in Telangana’s Medchal Malkajgiri district. (HT Photo)
india news
Updated on Jul 07, 2023 12:26 am IST

80-year-old banyan tree axed to give way to e-way in Ludhiana

The axed tree on Ferozepur Road in Ludhiana on Tuesday.
cities
Updated on Dec 03, 2019 10:17 pm IST

The Naga sadhu from Beverly Hills

Baba Rampuri came to Assagao in the 1990s where he established his dhuni in 2005
brunch
Updated on Nov 28, 2019 06:36 pm IST

A Calmer You, By Sonal Kalra: Always in a rush. But why?

When it comes to acting weird, the lyrics of ‘We are the World’ song seem to stream into the subconscious of an American, a Chinese and an Indian alike.
columns
Updated on Aug 04, 2019 02:09 pm IST

Guruvani: ‘Students should choose to excel’

Nikita Kothari, principal, Narayana e-Techno School, Kalyan
ht school
Updated on Jul 01, 2019 10:48 am IST

In SoBo, a well that served opium, cotton traders

Today, the access to the well, under the Horniman Circle Garden, is through a trap door in the ground.
mumbai news
Updated on Jun 13, 2019 12:21 am IST

Old trees in Thane may get heritage tag

The heritage committee in a recent meeting took up the issue of conservation of these trees.
mumbai news
Published on Jun 05, 2019 01:37 pm IST

Man killed, raped neighbour’s 6-yr-old. His son, 7, helped crack case: Cops

Six-year-old girl murdered, then raped by man in Haridwar
india news
Updated on Apr 28, 2019 12:19 pm IST

Lok Sabha polls: At 107, Padma Shri Thimmakka casts her vote in Bengaluru

Saalurmarada Thimmakka, 107, emerging from a polling booth in Bengaluru after casting her vote in the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday.
lok sabha election 2019
Updated on Apr 18, 2019 05:39 pm IST

Mauritius PM Pravind Jugnauth visits Kumbh, wishes stronger ties with India

Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth and his wife offering prayers at Bade Hanuman Temple and the Akshayvat.
lucknow news
Updated on Jan 24, 2019 09:23 pm IST

For British painter Howard Hodgkin, India was muse and escape

Howard Hodgkin
mumbai news
Published on Nov 24, 2018 12:21 am IST

“If not singer I’d have been a banyan tree that gives shade to people without expecting anything in return,” says Kailash Kher

Kailash Kher’s favourite singer is a folk singer named Prahlad Singh Tipaniya
brunch
Updated on Sept 29, 2018 09:47 pm IST

Delhi family found dead was trying to replicate hanging roots of banyan tree, say cops

Relatives mourn outside the house, where eleven members of a family were found dead inside their home in north Delhi’s Sant Nagar near Burari on Sunday morning.
delhi news
Updated on Jul 03, 2018 09:28 am IST

Telangana’s 700-year-old banyan tree gets saline drip for survival

The Telangana forest department is administering saline treatment to a centuries-old tree in the Mahbubnagar district to save its life.
india news
Updated on Apr 19, 2018 07:36 am IST
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