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 The Nagaland Chief Secretary – J. Alam today emphasized on the importance of snapping human interface and build an environment aiming to facilitate the entrepreneurial link of citizens with the state administration.“There is a need to cut down on human interface and create an environment which will improve the citizen’s ease of doing business with…

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The National Conservation Council has agreed that an environmental impact assessment needs to be carried out on a government proposal to extend Hutland Road in North Side through an area described as some of the “most biodiverse forest habitat” in the Cayman Islands.Director of the Department of Environment and council member Gina Ebanks-Petrie, in a…

Number of climate-related lawsuits globally has doubled since 2015, with quarter filed in past two yearsThe world’s most polluting companies are increasingly being targeted by lawsuits challenging their inaction on climate change and attempts to spread misinformation, according to a new report.Research by the London School of Economics Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and…