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Foreign aid budget to be cut to £10bn, Dominic Raab confirms It came as Lord Garnier, a former solicitor general, warned the planned cut could not go ahead without changing the law 26 January 2021 • 9:00pm The foreign aid budget will be slashed next year, Dominic Raab has said, as a former Government law officer warned the cut would be unlawful unless approved by Parliament. Setting out the reduction pushed through by Rishi Sunak in last year’s spending review, the Foreign Secretary confir...

Temperatures were dropping into the minus-twenties. There was no time for hand-wringing. On Nov. 6, Paulie Chinna declared a state of emergency which allowed the government to convert the mine safety building into a day shelter. That state of emergency has been extended multiple times, most recently through Jan. 28. But the executive director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association says resorting to this option says as much about the state of the territorys laws as it does about the...

© Getty Images One of the most bipartisan acts during the Trump administration was passage of the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development Act (BUILD Act) of 2018, establishing the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). The DFC is "America’s development bank. DFC partners with the private sector to finance solutions to the most critical challenges facing the developing world today.” On condition that the institution be aligned with climate chang...

U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) secured investments for Arkansas water infrastructure in the 2020  Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), legislation President Donald Trump recently signed into law. State water resource leaders applauded the senator’s leadership to support Arkansas water priorities. Dennis Sternberg, Executive Director of the Arkansas Rural Water Association said,  “We are very appreciative for Senator Boozman’s help and assistance to Arkansas’s small and rural com...

: Saturday, January 23, 2021, 2:30 AM IST The history of urban India & the realty sector will always be remembered as ‘pre-RERA’ and ‘post-RERA’, says Hardeep S Puri File photo Consumer protection is an article of faith for the Modi Government. Consumers provide the fulcrum of any industry and the protection of their interests is central to the latter’s growth and development. Within one-and-a-half years of assuming office, the Modi government enacted the Real Estate (...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 28, 2020, the House overrode President Trump’s veto and passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (H.R. 6395) by a vote of 322 to 87, and the Senate passed the bill on January 1, 2021, by a vote of 81 to 13. Subtitle E of Title II of the Act (Subtitle E) includes the text of the bipartisan Sustainable Chemistry Research and Development Act of 2019. Subtitle E will establish an interagency working...

The Port of Houston today received notification from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) that it was awarded a “new start” designation and $19.5 million in federal funds to begin construction of the Houston Ship Channel Expansion Channel Improvement Project.

NGT Directs UP Govt to Strictly Monitor Encroachments Over Green Belts The tribunal was hearing pleas against the illegal sale and constructions over land reserved for parks and open spaces in violation of the Meerut Master Plan 2021. National Green Tribunal. photo: PTI Law20/Jan/2021 New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to strictly monitor encroachments over green belts and ensure that the land use is not changed without following due process ...

“New start” designation for Project 11 January 20, 2021, by Eldin Ganic The Port of Houston yesterday received notification from USACE that it was awarded a “new start” designation and $19.5 million in federal funds to begin construction of the Houston Ship Channel Expansion Channel Improvement Project. The project was authorized in the Water Resources and Development Act of 2020 as part of a larger legislative package passed by Congress in Dece...

»RERA: What Indias First Real Estate Regulatory Act Seeks to Achieve And Why Its Necessary 3-MIN READ RERA: What Indias First Real Estate Regulatory Act Seeks to Achieve And Why Its Necessary Workers paint the exteriors of a newly constructed residential building on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, July 5, 2019. (Reuters) The RERA seeks to protect the interests of home buyers and also boost investments in the real estate sector. FOLLOW US ON: Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeeop Sin...