New warnings have been issued in Pakistan as floods spread in the southern province of Sindh. Rising waters there have forced many thousands of people to flee, adding to the millions already needing emergency assistance. After broaching some of its embankments, the Indus river is now as wide as 28km in some places.
The Essential Commodities Act, 1955 was last amended in December, 2009 by the Essential Commodities (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2009 to remove the ambiguity as regards the factors that should be taken into consideration by the Central Government for the determination of the price of levy sugar and to validate actions taken under the principal Act.
This expert panel report on Vedanta's bauxite mining
project in Orissa submitted to MoEF on August 16, 2010 says that the
company must not given permission for this project as it has illegally
occupied forest land andwill also threaten survival of local tribes. <br>
