Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sonya Ghosh Vs Govt. of NCT of Delhi & Others dated 17/02/2025. The matter related to conservation and protection of Delhi Ridge which is an extension of Aravali Range extending from Tughlakabad and branching out in Wazirabad in the north …
Kampala — Cabinet is due to discuss the National Health Insurance Bill after the Ministry of Finance committed to grant the Health ministry a certificate of financial implications. The certificate of financial implications shows that there are funds for the implementation of the Bill once it has been passed into …
Houses without a rooftop rainwater harvesting system may not get water connection. Moreover, permission for boring will be denied. Under the legislation state government is planning to bring into effect to control and regulate use of groundwater, wastage of the resource might be a criminal offence. The stringent legislation which …
Union Environment Ministry is likely to finalise the amendments to the six green laws by October this year after consultations with legal experts and stakeholders. Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the recommendations of the High Level Committee (HLC) which was constituted to review the six environmental laws was …
Parliament — MPs yesterday passed the Tobacco Control bill, 2014, into law with several changes, bringing an end to a debate that in most cases was as controversial as it has been embarrassing. After twice halting the debate on the proposed law due to lack of consensus on controversial provisions, …
In less than a month the nation will have a new, stringent motor vehicles legislation that envisages truly deterrent penalty and imprisonment for violators of road rules, including drunk drivers, the Centre told the Madras high court on Tuesday. A new Motor Vehicles Act, to replace of the existing law …
The TSR Subramanian committee report, that has outlined revision of key environmental laws, should be junked as it would result in an unacceptable dilution of existing legal and policy meant to protect environment, a parliamentary panel report on environment and forest said. The TSR Subramanian led high-level committee was constituted …
Birds which have been given the highest level of protection by European rules are faring significantly better than other bird species, research has shown. The study found birds protected as “annex 1” species under the EU’s birds directive, which requires governments to take action to conserve them, are more likely …
Members of the Ministerial Committee for Legislation unanimously approved the Environmental Protection Ministry’s request to apply the law of continuity to a bill that would ban the free distribution of plastic bags in the country’s supermarkets. The bill – which received Knesset plenary approval during the previous government – will …
Alexander Muyekhi, a construction worker from Ebubayi village in the heart of Vihiga County in Western Kenya, and his school-going children can now enjoy a tiny solar kit supplied by the British-based Azuri Technologies to light their house and play their small FM radio. This has saved the family from …
The parliamentary committee finds force in view of experts The controversial High Level Committee report that reviewed the green laws in 2014 has been junked by a Parliamentary Standing Committee (PSC). It found force in views of environmental experts who feared its implementation would result in unnecessary dilution of the …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Rajiv Narayan & Anr. Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 27/07/2015 regarding the issue of hazardous waste. M/s. Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd. will place before the Tribunal an affidavit explaining as to how they are …
This paper captures the policy processes leading to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RFCTLARR) Ordinance, 2014. It maps the role and the influence of the three primary stakeholders - Government, industry and landowners - at various stages of the evolution of the …
Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a NITI Aayog meeting in New Delhi. Ten big states, most of those ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance partners, on Wednesday sought to unshackle themselves from the logjam over amendments to …
Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 - Nothing in this Act (or the amendments made by this Act) is intended to alter or affect the authorities or regulatory programs, policies, and procedures otherwise available to, or the definitions used by, the Food and Drug Administration under the Federal …
PANAJI: In a significant order that is likely to have a bearing on a few controversial construction projects in Goa, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has prohibited the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) and state environment impact assessment authority (SEIAA) in the entire country from giving effect to two …
SYDNEY, July 7 (Reuters) - The Australian state of New South Wales has proposed changing its mining approval process to give greater consideration to environmental concerns, potentially threatening a colliery expansion planned by mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd. New South Wales Planning Minister Rob Stokes said in a statement on …
Tanzania's parliament on Sunday approved a legal and regulatory framework for developing its nascent hydrocarbons industry, after days of contentious debate. East Africa has become a new oil and gas frontier after a string of discoveries that producers hope to exploit to supply energy-hungry Asian markets. Tanzania estimates it has …
Mr. Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, has hinted that Parliament would soon pass the National Sanitation Bill into Law. He said the Bill when passed into Law, would make it compulsory to punish offenders who refused to participate in the National Sanitation Day …
In May 2015, the 21st Century Cures Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, with the goal of promoting the development and speeding the approval of new drugs and devices.1 Championed by the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and device industries, the bill was approved unanimously (51 to 0) in committee …
