Holi comes as doomsday for Semal tress in Udaipur and surrounding areas as large numbers of trees are axed. To save the medicinal plant from extinction Full-bloomed Semal flowers. UDAIPUR: Holi comes ...

Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh): In research that will go a long way in protecting rare species of forest trees for medicinal and other uses, the government-run State Forest Research Institute (SFRI) here ...

On the eve of Holi in Udaipur, Subash Chowk, a prominent intersection surrounded by luxury hotels, is transformed. Bhajans and Bollywood songs blare from speakers and firecrackers fly into the sky. In ...

To be a flower is a profound responsibility. The cyclic return to bloom gives our unstable world a sense of consoling predictability. It is thus a relief to break the news that the semal blossom is ...

They fall down with a thudding sound one after another, the red semal flowers. Their blooming marks the arrival of Delhi’s most pleasant, though most brief season—when it’s neither cold nor hot, and ...

The flowering trees announce the change of season to me in Delhi. The winter nip arrives with the perfume of Saptaparni wafting on the roads. The flowers themselves are green and invisible among the ...

Lucknow/Muzaffarnagar: For 37-year-old Shalu Saini, performing the last rites of unclaimed bodies is an act of service to the poor. It was the first time though that she carried out the funeral of a ...

I have vivid childhood memories of the silk cotton ( semal) tree. I was barely 10 years old when we moved houses from a secure, manicured factory colony to a new housing area set against the backdrop ...

Residents of Greater Noida complained of cotton-like white wool spreading across roads from semal tree (cotton tree). They said that a large amount of this white wool blew across residential sectors ...