Ø Former Deputy Consul General Devyani Khobragade
reached New Delhi on Friday night after the U.S. gave her full diplomatic
immunity even as India asked Washington to send back a diplomat of the same
rank as Ms. Khobragade.
Ø The Union Environment Ministry has taken a
decision in two high profile cases, rejecting the forest clearance for
Vedanta’s bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha, and renewing the
stand-alone environmental clearance for Posco’s eight million tonnes per annum
steel plant.
Ø Soon Madurai will get a prestigious facility
with the establishment of Inter-Institutional Centre for High Energy Physics
(IICHEP) on 33 acres of land at Vadapazhanji. It will serve as a
research and development centre for India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO).
Ø WWF India, in partnership with Tata Housing
Development Company, announced on Friday the launch of a project for the
conservation of endangered snow leopards in the country. As a part of
the project ‘Save Our Snow Leopards’ (SOS), the two organisations unveiled an
online crowd funding campaign for species conservation in India, aiming to
raise at least Rs. 15 lakh. The snow leopard population in India is
estimated to be 400-700, while their worldwide number is around 7,000.
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