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NEWSWEEK’s Christopher Dickey chats with the octogenarian author and activist who refused to go home when protests in Cairo turned violent as pro- and anti-Mubarak forces attacked each other.

Key features of the law on Plastic Waste in India include:
It incorporates Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for plastics waste
management for the first time, and is a significant change from the earlier
law made in 1999. (EPR makes waste as part of the life cycle of the
product/packaging, in legal and management terms)
1. plastic bags less than 40 micron banned
2. plastics bags will not be available free of cost to the consumer.
3. Introduction of a mandatory ’waste (…)

Members of Karachi’s civil society believe that parties, which have been historically progressive, can be nudged into action, even if for nothing but their own survival

Housing and Land Rights Network undertook a detailed fact-finding mission across 19 sites in Delhi from where the government forcibly evicted families because of the Commonwealth Games, for reasons ranging from construction of infrastructure to ‘security’ and ‘city beautification.’ Based on field work and research, HLRN estimates that since 2004, at least 200,000 people in Delhi have been forcibly evicted as a result of the CWG. The city, however, witnessed many more demolitions and evictions in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games.
Thr HLRN report uses national and international law and guidelines, in particular the United Nations Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-based Evictions and Displacement, to analyse the forced evictions in Delhi.

The latest news from America must have thrilled many: Pakistan probably has more nuclear weapons than India. But for argument’s sake, let’s assume that the claims made are correct. Indeed, let us suppose that Pakistan surpasses India in numbers – say by 50 per cent or even 100 per cent. Will that really make Pakistan more secure?