Esha Roy

Javadekar was responding to a letter from Ramesh, who is the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on environment, forests and climate change and science and technology.

The report, which was tabled before Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan by the Department of Biotechnology Saturday, states that the A2a haplotype has rooted out any other haplotypes that existed before.

The signatories from Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh have demanded the immediate scrapping of the 2020 draft amendments. The organisations have also written to MPs of their respective states.

There have been gains and losses in individual landscapes, says the report. Most of these variations have taken place in habitat pockets with low density.

This comes just a month after Manipur witnessed a political crisis, with three BJP MLAs resigning from the Assembly to join the Congress, and the NPP -- BJP’s main ally -- threatening to pull out of the government.

With the Covid-19 pandemic highlighting the urgency for a push toward scientific solutions of crises, the government is keen to begin the implementation of the new policy by next year.

Besides deaths and loss of property, the accidents also resulted in extensive pollution of nearby water resources, air and soil, a study carried out by the Health Energy Initiative India and the Community Environmental Monitoring notes.

The Centre had called for suggestions and objections to the draft to be submitted by August 10, after which the draft is to be notified.

This is the first study in the country that seeks to trace and observe the migratory routes of the pied cuckoo. Equally importantly, it will help gather data and information on climate change, scientists involved in the study say.

The notice to Endurance Domains Technology LLP had been sent “inadvertently” and “by mistake”, the police said on Thursday.

The accusation is part of a sworn affidavit filed in Imphal High Court by Additional Superintendent of Police, NAB, Thounaojam Brinda.

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, was passed last year in Parliament amid criticism from transgender rights activists and protests by the LGBTQ community.

The UNICEF had declared a forecast earlier that the highest number of births during a nine-month pandemic period would take place in India.

As many as 125 signatories and disability activists and groups from across the country had written to the Ministry protesting the proposal.

The Council and the Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences cautioned against rushing into “any hasty solution that may compromise rigorous scientific processes and standards”.

In its notification issued on Wednesday, the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, under the ministry, stated that decriminalisation of minor offences will alleviate the risk of imprisonment for actions which do not necessarily have “mala fide intent’’.

The clampdown on all non-essential activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 25 to June 8, led to a significant decline in air pollution levels for major cities across India.

"What has complicated the situation as seen today is the madness of ‘extortions’ that are being carried out by some groups in the guise of freedom fighters. NSCN did not and does not commit extortion at any point of time but levies legitimate taxes from the people," NSCN-IM said.

The report, released on Thursday, comes amid increasing international concern that the crime could lead to more zoonotic diseases in the future.

The central leadership of the BJP maintained that the matter of their government in Manipur would be sorted by Wednesday. BJP leader and Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has been visiting Imphal every day as a troubleshooter for the BJP and has been in talks with all allies.

The report has not specified regions or states that would suffer due to these extreme weather conditions.

With the disqualifications, erstwhile royal Leisemba Sanajaoba, the BJP’s Rajya Sabha candidate, was elected with 28 votes. The Congress—which earlier had the numbers to send its candidate to the Upper House—secured 24 votes.

What drastically changed the dynamics for the first time in Manipur was how well a number of other parties had done. Most importantly Nagaland’s Naga People’s Front in the Naga hill areas of the state, winning four MLAs, and Conrad Sangma’s National People’s Party another four.

Shashank, also a former Foreign Secretary, said that a big difference in Chinese activity at the border this time is that the Chinese aggression appears to be playing out “all along the LAC” and not in one particular geographical area picked by that country.