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Cauvery notification gets Law Ministry nod

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January 21, 2013

cauveryNew Delhi, Jan 21: The decks have been cleared for notifiying the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal (CWDT) final award, with the Union Law Ministry giving its approval.

“The Law Ministry has given its nod to notify the award by clearing the draft notification. Now, the Water Resources Ministry will decide whether to go ahead with issuing the notification or not,” sources in the government told Deccan Herald.

The Law Ministry also clarified that the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, 1956, will not prevent the Centre from notifying it despite the pending petitions in the Supreme Court.

Sources said though the Water Resources Ministry is ready to issue the final notification, it has sought the Law Ministry’s opinion  to avoid any legal complications.  The Water Resources Ministry also referred the matter to the prime minister as the issue involved inter-state dispute.

The prime minister, who is also the chairman of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA), is likely to suggest to the ministry whether it can go ahead with the notification by the end of this month.

When the Cauvery dispute came up at the recently held Congress Core Group meeting here, it was decided that the matter be left to the prime minister to take a final call on. Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat was learnt to have briefed the core group, which includes the prime minister and party chief Sonia Gandhi.

While, on the one hand, Karnataka has opposed the notification of the final award, Tamil Nadu, on the other , has been pressing for an early notification. Though the Centre had informed the Cauvery water-sharing states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry that it would notify the award by December-end, it was delayed as the matter was referred to the Law Ministry.

In what was then described as a balancing act, the tribunal gave Tamil Nadu 419 tmc of water (as against the demand of 562 tmc), Karnataka 270 tmc (as against its demand of 465 tmc), Kerala 30 tmc, and Puducherry 7 tmc. It had reserved 10 tmc for environmental protection. The tribunal’s award will come into effect within 90 days of its notification by the Centre.

After the issuance of the notification, institutions like the CRA and the CMC?will cease to exist. New organisations like the Cauvery Management Board and the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee will be constituted which will have representatives from all the co-basin states, and experts in hydrology and agriculture.

They will be under the control of the Centre.

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March 16,2020

Mar 16: A fourth batch of 53 Indians returned to India from Iran on Monday, taking the total number of people evacuated from the coronavirus-hit country to 389.

This comes a day after over 230 Indians were brought back from Iran to New Delhi and quarantined at the Indian Army Wellness Centre in Jaisalmer, the third batch to be evacuated from that country.

"Fourth batch of 53 Indians - 52 students and a teacher - has arrived from Tehran and Shiraz, Iran. With this, a total of 389 Indians have returned to India from Iran. Thank the efforts of the team @India_in_Iran and Iranian authorities," Jaishankar tweeted.

The Indians came in a Mahan Air flight that landed at the Delhi airport at around 3 am, officials said, adding that they were later taken to Jaisalmer in an Air India flight for being quarantined.

The first batch of 58 Indian pilgrims were brought back from Iran last Tuesday and the second group of 44 Indian pilgrim arrived from there on Friday.

Iran is one of the worst-affected countries by the coronavirus outbreak and the government has been working to bring back Indians stranded there. Over 700 people have died from the disease in Iran and nearly 14,000 cases have been detected.

Jaishankar had told Rajya Sabha last week that the government was focusing on evacuating Indians stranded in Iran and Italy as these countries are facing an "extreme situation".

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Agencies
January 5,2020

Bikaner, Jan 5: A government-run hospital in Bikaner saw the death of at least 162 children, higher than the number of deaths in Kota's JK Lon Hospital in December.

"In December, we received 2,219 children from different hospitals out of which 162 children died in the Intensive Care Unit here. None of them was born at the hospital," said Dr HS Kumar, Principal, Sardar Patel Medical College, PBM Hospital.

He, however, denied any negligence on the part of the hospital and said that all efforts were made to save every single life.

The official said that all the deceased children had taken birth at the Primary Healthcare Centres (PHC) and the Community Health Centres (CHC) and were referred to the PBM Hospital in a critical condition.

"Their condition was critical and they breathed their last during treatment," he said.

At least 110 children have lost their lives at JK Lon government hospital in Kota, Rajasthan.

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July 30,2020

Kochi, Jul 30: The Kerala High Court on Thursday refused to grant the extension for the stay of a 74-year-old US citizen, Johnny Paul Pierce, who had earlier said that he felt safer to remain in India than in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The single-judge bench of Justice CS Dias, which considered the writ petition, observed that the grant or extension of visa to foreign nationals fall exclusively within the domain of the Government of India (GoI) and that judicial review in such matters is minimal.

The power of the GoI to expel foreigners is absolute and unlimited, the bench said.

"In view of the categoric declaration of law by the Supreme Court, the plea of the petitioner to permit him to stay back in India cannot be accepted, as it falls within the purview of the guidelines and the discretion of the Government of India," the order said.

"The petitioner cannot be heard that the guidelines/policies/regulations formulated by the Government of India, that an American national though has been granted a visa having validity of five years has to leave India within 180 days, is irrational or unreasonable," it added.

The High Court, which was hearing a plea to permit the US citizen to stay in India for a further period of six months, said that the petitioner does not have a case that there is an infraction of Article 21 of the Constitution of India.

"The petitioner was well aware of the visa conditions when he arrived in India, and it is too late in the day for him to raise a grievance on the visa conditions," the bench said noting that the petitioner's love for India was heartening.

The High Court also directed the Foreigners Registration Officer to consider the petitioner's representation within a period of two weeks in accordance with the applicable guidelines and policies.

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