Unmukt Gera

In 1973, Chandi Prasad Bhatt led many villagers from the village of Mandal, in the Alaknanda valley of Uttar Pradesh, to protest against the government’s allotment of forest land to a sporting manufacturer. The villagers embraced the…
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Although industrialisation has often been blamed for environmental degradation, far less research has gone on the ill-effects of rapid urbanisation. Recently, a group of researchers from France and Israel have disproved the…
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The judiciary has taken charge in the matters of environmental protection, primarily because of the slow pace of government action in response to environmental hazards including Delhi’s deplorable air quality. T he Delhi High Court, in a…
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A report released by IPCC concludes that the world needs to come together to tackle climate change. “I t was the best of times, and it was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness and it was the age of epoch belief, it was the…
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The Peace Prize awarded to Dr. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad puts a brighter spotlight on the issue of conflict related sexual violence.   T he Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018…
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GST may have been too big a compromise to make for uncertain benefits, believe eminent professors in the critique ‘GST Fiscal Centralism in Federal Polity’. I s Goods and Services Tax (GST) the panacea for all taxation related ills?…
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Indian legislature has failed to provide any support to the judiciary in deciding which theory of punishment to adhere to and which theory to consider as dominant in particular crimes. I n 1994, the Supreme Court (SC) gave a…
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