New Delhi: With the fate of civil liability for nuclear damage bill getting enmeshed with stalemated ties with Left and fresh hostilities with BJP, the government is open to defining responsibilities for a nuclear accident more closely.

About five years after Sonia Gandhi raised a red flag on the Seeds Bill, 2004, on the grounds of

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Demand for setting up regulatory mechanism on pricing of seeds

Appellate committee for grievance redressal to be quasi-judicial in nature

NEW DELHI: The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on Tuesday admitted in Parliament that it could soon reduce the green belts, where coal mining is not allowed.

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NEW DELHI: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has convened a meeting of

Even as the Opposition rocked Parliament over price rise, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said wastage of even a single foodgrain in a poverty-ridden country is a

The government on Tuesday stepped up moves to ease potential hurdles before the Nuclear Liability Bill in Parliament by holding consultations with Opposition leaders with the assurance that all

THE Andhra Pradesh government on Monday requested the Centre to incorporate provisions for regulation of seed sale price and also royalty in the Central Seed Bill, which is expected to be passed in Parliament in the current monsoon session.

The Panchayats (Extension to Schedule Areas) Act, 1996, or PESA has been hyped as a weapon to empower the tribals in Maoist hotbeds, but the ground reality is something else. When Parliament passed PESA, the goal was to protect the resources of communities in Schedule V areas by upholding their rights to self-governance.

Giving in to pressure from Opposition members, the Standing Committee on Science and Technology on Wednesday postponed deliberations on the Nuclear Liability Bill. The committee, which had earlier decided to hold clause by clause deliberations on the Bill on Thursday and then bring it before the Lok Sabha, has now decided to hold two more meetings on July 27 and August 2.