-PTI A Bar Council of India (BCI) delegation today met Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal and threatened a nation-wide stir if legal education is not taken out of the purview of proposed Higher Education Research (HER) Bill. The BCI has been opposing the HER Bill aimed at regulating the legal education system, saying it is an attempt to take away the powers of the apex lawyers' body. At a two-hour meeting with...
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MoEF panel favours bauxite mining in Vizag tribal area-M Suchitra
Yet-to-be-made public report dismisses environmental concerns The high-level committee set up by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to study the socio-economic and ecological impacts of the proposed bauxite mining in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam district has submitted its final report favouring mining. The committee concludes mining will not have any significant negative impact on the ecology. At the same time it recommends settling all claims under the Forest Rights...
More »Govt bans tourism near Jarawa habitat
-Express News Service The government has decided to ban tourist activity and regulate commercial establishments within a five km radius of the habitat of aboriginal tribes in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Cabinet on Thursday gave its approval to the proposal to promulgate the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Amendment Regulation 2012 to ensure that endangered tribes like the Jarawas are protected from “undesirable outside influences”. The decision comes...
More »Jarawa region to have buffer zone-Smita Gupta
Five months after two British newspapers released a controversial video film showing scantily clad Jarawa tribal women dancing for tourists in return for food and money, the government finally acted on Thursday: the Union Cabinet approved the promulgation of a law that brings into effect a buffer zone in the 5 km radius around the Jarawa tribal settlements in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and provides for imprisonment up to...
More »HC opens justice doors for jailed tribals-Suman K Shrivastava
Prisoners of Jharkhand — a majority of them tribals — who are facing charges of waging war against the state may have reason to believe that they are no less equal before the law than the free man. Jharkhand High Court has constituted a committee headed by Justice D.N. Patel to monitor the trial of persons alleged to be members of banned outfits such as CPI(Maoist) and PLFI and speed up...
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