The language issue reared its head again on Thursday after a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader confronted a bank official in Mumbai for refusing to speak in Marathi and threatened to teach him a lesson in “MNS style”

The minister said the rising numbers were supported by Gujarat’s measures to manage human-wildlife conflicts and disease vulnerability.

The environment ministry told Parliament that it has approved 10,026 proposals in the last 5 years and rejected just 120—an overwhelmingly high approval rate, with few rejections