A woman tries her hand at photography in Dehradun. Tribune photo: Anil P. Rawat

Banquet halls give safety the go-by
Dehradun, December 4
The wedding season is on. With the increase in population and scarcity of space, wedding banquet halls, considered a few years ago as luxury of the wealthy and affluent, have emerged as the preferred choice of the common man. In Haridwar, a large number of banquet halls have come up. Most banquet owners are playing with the lives of the people by not conforming to security norms.

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Two jungle bablar birds admire themselves in the rear-view mirrors of a motor cycle Tribune photo: Anil P. Rawat

Forest institute to battle invasive species
Dehradun, December 4
The Dehradun-based Forest Research Institute (FRI) has recently come up with a Forest Invasive Species Cell that has been working on ways to curb the spread of invasive species both on forests and water bodies. Presently, a paper at the International Plant Taxonomy seminar at FRI, Dehradun, the duo of Sas Biswas, head of Botany Department, FRI, and Devendra Kumar from ICFRE held that the aquatic invasive species were causing enormous direct and indirect loss to ecosystems and threaten biodiversity.

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