The ministry of environment and the state government of Assam have been rapped on their knuckles by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for their failure to stop the stone crushing units operating around the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve and in the Karbi-Anglong Elephant Reserve.

The co-chairperson of the joint drafting committee for the Jan Lokpal Bill, Mr Shanti Bhushan, on Saturday said the Gandhi family “does not have any hand behind the controversial CD” but “big corporates are behind” circulating the CD.

The UN Secretary-General has appointed the Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres to replace the outgoing head of the UN Framework Convention on Climte change (UNFCC) Yvo de Boer.