The Delhi High Court today ruled the Indian government
must unfreeze Greenpeace India funds received from abroad. In its ruling the
court noted that the action of the Ministry of Home Affairs in freezing
Greenpeace India funds is “arbitrarily illegal” and “unconstitutional”. It
observed that NGOs are entitled to have their viewpoint and merely because
their views are not in accordance with the Government’s views it does not mean
the NGO is acting to the detriment of the national interest.
The Delhi High Court today ruled the Indian government
must unfreeze Greenpeace India funds received from abroad. In its ruling the
court noted that the action of the Ministry of Home Affairs in freezing
Greenpeace India funds is “arbitrarily illegal” and “unconstitutional”. It
observed that NGOs are entitled to have their viewpoint and merely because
their views are not in accordance with the Government’s views it does not mean
the NGO is acting to the detriment of the national interest.
Undeterred by the government of India trying to halt her speech when she was barred from boarding her flight to London, Greenpeace India campaigner Priya Pillai stuck to her commitment of taking the voices of struggle from Mahan to a global stage and addressed a gathering of MPs at the Parliament in London on Wednesday.
Thursday 15th January, 2015, London - In response to Ed Miliband's speech
this morning in Queens Park Community School, John Sauven, Executive Director
of Greenpeace UK, said -
"It’s good to see Ed Miliband pushing
climate change back up the political agenda and recognising that this is an
issue that will determine the long-term well-being of our economy and everyone
in the country, as well as millions of people living in extreme poverty
overseas.
A Greenpeace
campaigner on her way to London to meet British MPs has been stopped by
government officials at Delhi airport and told she cannot travel.
Priya Pillai was scheduled
to address the MPs at the House of Commons in London this week, but yesterday
immigration officials told her the Indian government is refusing to let her
make the trip.
Investors will soon be offered further equity (an FPO of 10 per cent) in the Indian Government majority-owned Coal India Limited (CIL).
This FPO will likely position investing in Coal India as an “opportunity” for investors in a robust emerging market, on the basis of widely held assumptions regarding India’s continued reliance on thermal coal for power generation; and it having among the largest, lowest priced coal resources in the world.
If you
haven't heard so far, the Supreme Court of India cancelled 214 coal blocks
allocated to private companies since 1993, deeming them illegal. And one of
these coal blocks brings us to the story of Mahan, one of the oldest Sal
forests in Asia and livelihood to more than 50,000 people.
