In a relief for landowners, top court criticised HC for bypassing precedent in allowing Maharashtra to categorise plots across Mumbai as 'private forests' & assume control of them.
J&K, where timber smuggling is a major threat, used to be governed by a law with provision of Public Safety Act. But it got scrapped after the govt’s Article 370 move.
Bamboo ceased being a 'tree' according to the new amendment made to the Indian Forest Act 1927, but this applies only to bamboo grown in non-forest areas in the country.
From Kautilya’s Arthashastra to Mughal policies and British non-intervention, India’s response to supply shocks has long been defined by the role of the state.
When conflict with Iran ends, says the report, area’s key players are likely to reexamine longstanding assumptions & alliances as they determine how best to advance their interests.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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