Letter from Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association regarding banning of PET bottles for medicines, 20/12/2013. The letter says that the "DTAB recommendations are unjust as they seem to be based on neither robust scientific facts nor on established global practices".

This book of charts on the state of cities and towns produced by ORF Urban Policy Research Initiative covering five states - NCT Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram, presents a picture of the current state and developments in employment, education and public infrastructure provision, among others, and the disparities between states, within states and between different sections of the urban society.

This memorandum dated 20 Dec 2013 issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests clarifies that there is no ban on agriculture and plantations activities along the Western Ghats. Read the text.

Gazette Notification for Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 - Act shall come into force from 1st January, 2014.

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The collaborative study by National Dalit Watch of National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights & Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development reviews the exclusion of Dalit communities in climate change adaptation programmes and policies through case studies and desk review.

Parliament in the recent past has witnessed a significant loss of time due to continued disruptions by a section of MPs. This Session was no different, dominated by disruptions on the issues of bifurcation of Andhra

This overview report shows that children are an important group in the context of climate change, as a disproportionally and severely affected group, and as an important resource for adaptation and policy response.

A Bill to provide for the establishment of a body of Lokpal for the Union and Lokayukta for States to inquire into allegations of corruption against certain public functionaries and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

This is the Seventy-ninth Report of the Committee on the Drugs and Cosmetics(Amendment) Bill, 2013 presented by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare.

Draft report: Multiple Dams in tribal belt of Western Ghats for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region: Unjustified projects, when better options exist. About 12 dams are planned or are under construction to satisfy the increasing thirst of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). All of these dams fall in eco-sensitive region of the Western Ghats.