Judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of In Re: T N Godavarman Thirumalpad Vs Union of India & Others. The Supreme Court said that that the allotment of 11.89 hectare of reserve forest land in Survey No.21 Kondhwa Budruk in district Pune for agriculture purposes on August 28, …
The us recently called for a free-trade agreement with 37 African countries, saying it will fuel economic growth in Africa. us officials proposed this in Washington on June 9, 2006, at the fifth meeting of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (agoa), a trade forum involving African nations and the …
In a recent meeting in Quito, the Ecuadorean capital, the heads of the four Andean Community of Nations signed the Quito Declaration, which seeks the extension of trade preferences with the us for a year. The agreement comes against the backdrop of a left-oriented group of nations taking on the …
the prime minister's Trade and Economic Relations Committee (terc) has , recently, given the green light for the implementation of the free trade agreement (fta) with the Association of South East Asian Nations (asean) from January 1, 2007. The Indo- asean free trade agreement is the biggest trade pact India …
ndia appears to have managed to ward off an impending nuclear fuel crisis. On March 2, 2006, New Delhi settled its differences with Washington over the highly controversial nuclear separation plan. An agreement on the bifurcation of civilian and military nuclear facilities during George Bush's visit meant the removal of …
China and Russia will jointly monitor cross-border rivers to ensure water quality. An agreement on the issue was recently signed in Bejing, following a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao in Kuala Lumpur last year. They had discussed the Songhua river chemical spill that …
Did India play into the dirty hands of the us in signing on a joint agreement with it and Australia on climate change? The Asia Pacific Partnership for clean development and climate change has been signed by India, China, South Korea and Japan - all signatories to the multilateral Kyoto …
On April 5, 2005 a group of ministers (gom), headed by the Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, cleared the draft of the Integrated Food Bill. The draft bill will now go to the union law ministry and then to the union cabinet for final approval. The Union ministry of food …
When deliberations began on May 13, 2004 the world's forest policy-makers thought that all was well at the fourth UN Forum on Forest meet (UNFF-4). But by midnight everything had collapsed: two resolutions were dropped and another significantly watered down. By next afternoon, the delegates were on their way home, …
China and the us will be striving for an environment-friendly 2008 Olympics. Chinese science and technology minister Xu Guanhau and us energy secretary Spencer Abraham signed the Beijing Olympic protocol, which commits us experts to helping the host country in cleaning up the city. Over 1,000 electric buses with stylistic …
India and Pakistan once again came together to resolve disputes over the Baglihar power project. In December 2003, a three-member Pakistani inspection team clarified doubts regarding India's violation of the 1960 bilateral Indus Waters Treaty. A six-member Indian team headed by A C Gupta, chairperson of the Indus Water Commission, …
The Prime Minister of uk, Tony Blair, has made a New Year resolution: to put pressure on us President George W Bush to tackle climate change. The intention is to challenge the us administration more forcefully than before on the need for an international effort to fight global warming. It …
a closer-knit South Asian community is not beyond the realms of possibility now. At the 12th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (saarc) summit in Islamabad from January 4-6, leaders of the region took some of the boldest steps ever since the grouping was first created in 1985. They agreed …
I met Jacques Chirac this fortnight. Just before he made the call to George Bush and just before he left to attend the European Union summit in Athens, the French president met some 20 of us in his presidential palace for discussions on what would be the future of this …
It was a huge party. There were camels, horses and gaudily caparisoned elephants. Teams of sweating musicians belted out India's diverse ethnic notes; girls, perched atop plywood props designed to look like fortress towers, swayed and struck dance poses. There was food from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, turbaned waiters, false fountains …
NEPAD is a long shot but no one has come up with an alternative Together, the new African Union (au) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (nepad) reflect a new imperative in Africa's international relations. Integration has replaced liberation as the continent's strategic goal. And for average Africans the …
The New Partnership for Africa's Development (nepad) has become something of couture show for political and economic elite across the globe. At an intergovernmental and business level, nepad has guaranteed diplomatic license to those who circumnavigate the world attending summits and conferences in the disguise of addressing Africa's developmental challenges. …
Growing global concerns over environmental issues has once again underlined the need for an effective and vigilant environmental forum with a valid mandate that would provide concrete guidance to all nations. While the number of environmental forum and institutions have proliferated over the years yet concrete policy decisions along with …
Romantic Rhine Salmon returns to the Rhine after decades of absence from the "biggest sewer of Europe" "I love rivers, carrying ideas as well as goods... of all rivers I most love the Rhine," said Victor Hugo (1839). But if the famous French author was to visit the Rhine 130 …
