The Supreme Court of India has given the Union government permission to create a permanent council of experts to deal with environmental and forest cases, a significant development aimed at improving environmental governance. This action replaces the central empowered committee’s (CEC) ad hoc experts’ panel, which for the past 20 years has supported the Court ...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has filed an intervention in the Supreme Court on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and informed India’s Permanent Mission in Geneva about it, the Ministry of External Affairs said. As India continues to boil over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, the United Nations Commissioner ...