The wood from the tree, an Indian sandalwood, is estimated to be worth as much as 4 million Sudanese pounds (700,000 US dollars). The tree also has historical value as it was planted on the day ...

Thiruvananthapuram: A 40-year-old sandalwood tree worth over Rs 1 lakh was stolen from a private land owned by an Attipra resident. The incident reportedly took place between Nov 9 and 10 ...

According to officials with the Forest department, the reserve has lost ten trees in just two months, highlighting a resurgence of large-scale sandalwood theft. The most recent incident occurred ...

Three sandalwood trees were illegally chopped from the farmland of a government school teacher at Ponneri village near Jolarpet here on Wednesday. The police said that the landlord M. Rajesh ...

We caught them following a tip-off. We seized 22.010 kg of sandalwood (three pieces) along with the knife used for axing the tree,” said the range officer. Sources said, Annamalai, who worked as ...

Vadodara: Unidentified persons chopped and stole two sandalwood trees and tried to take away four others from the MS University campus in the early hours of Thursday. An offence regarding the ...