Moving to give legal teeth to the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the Ministry of Environment and Forests will make littering, throwing waste in the open, dumping electronic waste, defacement of public plac
Pushing for mining sector reforms, the Cabinet is expected to take up Monday a proposal from the Mines Ministry to promulgate an ordinance to amend the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulatio
The coal ministry is taking legal recourse to ensure that the auction of coal blocks to government companies and corporations — started in December 2012 — does not get bogged down by the Supreme Co
The Union Law Ministry’s opinion is that the food security legislation covers not just Indians but also foreign nationals and refugees.
The ministry’s legal affairs department gave this opinion in the backdrop of a 2012 petition by the Mool Pravah Akhil Bharat Nepal Ekta Samaj, saying that “the provisions of National Food Security Act are not only applicable to Indian citizens but also to foreign nationals legally residing in India”.
The centre plans to give mining approvals for captive coal blocks listed in the coal blocks allotment scandal with the rider that the permission would be revoked if a legal case is made or a CBI in
New Delhi : Dogged by the unceasing sluggish progress in coal mining, the Centre has formed a jumbo panel of officials from associated ministries, including environment and forests as well as of co
The row over the proposed increase in natural gas prices is set to flare up because the petroleum ministry has admitted that the producer price in the new regime starting April 2014 would be at lea
Major procedural amendments, including exemption from environment clearances, for roads projects are being proposed to the Cabinet Committee on Investment to achieve the UPA government's commitment
India wants an eight-point pledge from the US and other developed countries at Cancun before yielding to their demand that developing nations must agree to international consultation and analysis (ICA) for monitoring domestic climate actions.
A strategy paper on New Delhi's stand at the conference says that India has agreed, in principle, to the idea of ICA but with specific riders in place.
