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Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. Communities protect local biodiversity because they see value in it. These plants provide them food and sometimes, even meet their medicinal needs. But they will stop caring for this resource if they fail to earn from it. With this, we will lose the taste of biodiversity from our plates.

Birth Rate is a crude measure of fertility of a population and is a crucial determinant of population growth. It gives the number of live births per thousand population in a given region and year. The Birth Rate at all India level has declined drastically over the last five decades from 36.9 in 1971 to 19.3 in 2021.

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding News Item titled "Endangered Gangetic dolphins found in most tributaries of Ganges prompting urgent conservation" appearing in Mongaby- India dated 20.05.2024 dated 01/05/2025.

The National Biodiversity Authority has released a new set of rules to manage sharing of benefits generated through the use of biological resources.

Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of M C Mehta Vs Union of India & Others dated 29/04/2025.

Affidavit has been filed by NABHA Power Limited which runs the Rajpura thermal power plant in Rajpura, Punjab. It is stated in the affidavit that the NABHA Power Limited has installed both the flue gas desulfurization (FGD) units. However, it is submitted that due to non-cooperation on the part of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited, there is a delay in commissioning.

Order of the Supreme Court in the matter of Sugra Adiwasi & Others Vs Pathranand & Others dated 29/04/2025. The bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Justice Joymalya Bagchi directed the state of Madhya Pradesh as well as the central government through the the Ministries of Tribal Affairs and Environment and Forest to file detailed affidavit indicating the provisions for construction of houses in the forest area, if permissible. They should also annex to the affidavit(s), the concerned rules and regulations.

The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030.

Affidavit by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in the matter of Mukul Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 15/04/2025. The matter related to implementation of Biomedical Waste Management Rules, 2016 (BMWM Rules, 2016).

In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil generation. 2024 both clarified and consolidated the shape of the global clean power transition.

The Indian government has announced the Environment (Construction and Demolition) Waste Management Rules, 2025. These new rules seek to tighten regulations and promote sustainable practices in the handling of construction and demolition (C&D) waste. These rules were published on April 4, 2025 and will come into effect from April 1, 2026.

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