The ‘Scheduled Tribes And Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights Act)’: The Himachal Pradesh government has said that it settled 164 claims filed under Section 3(1) and 1,811 cases filed under Section 3(2) of the Forests Rights Act (FRA), 2006. The Act passed in 2006 grants legal recognition to the rights of traditional forest […]
Month: March 2022
NATO Membership
NATO Membership: Finland and Sweden have dismissed Russia’s warnings that their potential NATO membership would have “serious military-political consequences” for the two countries. Russia has put forth two draft agreements that seek explicit, legally binding security guarantees from the United States and NATO, respectively: The draft calls for NATO to end its eastward expansion, […]
Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB)
Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB): The Union Power Ministry has made an amendment to the rules governing the appointment of Member Power and Member Irrigation on Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) from Punjab and Haryana, respectively, thereby removing the stipulation that these two appointments need to be filled from the two states only. Posts of […]
