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With the Supreme Court allowing the Maharashtra government to cut down the size of the Great Indian Bustard sanctuary area spreading over Solapur and Ahmednagar district by nearly 85% last month, forest officials are in the process of stepping up conservation efforts in the remaining areas, with a special focus core area of around 193 sqkm in isolated...

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The Gujarat government is now set to tap the traditional knowledge of tribal healers of this hill station to promote health tourism. Read the original here: Tapping Gujarat hill station's herbal wealth

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President Eisenhower’s Winchester Model 21 Visit link: President Eisenhower’s Winchester Model 21

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The European Union has pressed Turkey to ease or eliminate laws and policies that discriminate against non-Muslim religious groups, including restrictions on land ownership. Read more here: Turkey to Return Seized Property to Religious Minorities

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The New York Times, by SCOTT TUROW (Scott Turow is a lawyer and the author, most recently, of the novel “Innocent.”) Published: August 27, 2011 In one of those ironies that novelists relish, the on-again-off-again rape prosecution of the former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn seems to have gravely damaged the political careers of both the prosecutor...

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Los Angeles County – Community Corrections Partnership AB 109/117 Implementation Plan Executive Summary In April 2011, the California Legislature passed the Public Safety Realignment Act (Assembly Bills 109 and 117), which transfers responsibility for supervising specific low-level inmates and parolees from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to counties. In addition, it tasked the local Community...

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Steve Chapman, The Chicago Tribune - August 28, 2011 In 1989, a Waukegan woman was raped after three men invaded her apartment. She told police the rapist had a tattoo, wore an earring in a pierced ear and spoke English. Two days later, the cops took her to an office and said, “Watch the one sitting on the chair.”...

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By Catherine Bowen/The Reporter, Vacaville - Posted: 08/15/2011 01:00:34 AM PDT In a move some call long overdue and others say should never happen, the state is set to send waves of prison inmates flooding into county jails and communities as early as this fall, leaving local authorities bracing for the storm. With the wheels set into motion earlier...

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Donna Tam/The Times-Standard - Posted: 08/27/2011 02:40:16 AM PDT To help Humboldt’s criminal justice system prepare for the state’s transfer of prisoners to our local system, the county has hired a consultant to navigate the road ahead. Although the state begins the transfer of nonviolent, nonserious and nonsex crime offenders to county jails and the probation department on Oct....

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August 26, 2011 – Attorneys for the National Rifle Association (NRA), California Rifle & Pistol Association Foundation (CRPA Foundation), Herb Bauer’s Sporting Goods, and individual Fresno residents and firearm owners have filed a lawsuit challenging the “fees” the California Department of Justice (“DOJ”) imposes on firearm purchasers. The lawsuit, Bauer v. Harris , filed in the United States...