The Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules, 2021.

Through this amendment the ministry has extended the validity period of notifications expiring in the financial year 2020-2021 and 2021- 2022 to 31st December, 2021 or six months from the end of the month when the relevant notification would have expired without any extension, whichever is later.

Madras High Court prohibits Conversion Therapy

The Madras High Court bench of Justice Anand Venkatesh in a ground breaking judgment asked the Union government to ban any attempts to medically “cure” or change the sexual orientation of LGBTIQA+ persons, thus banning conversion therapy.

Regulations Review Authority (RRA 2.0)

RBI has set up a Regulations Review Authority (RRA 2.0) to make regulatory and supervisory instructions more effective by removing redundancies and duplications, if any.

Homoeopathy Central Council (Minimum Standards Requirement of Homoeopathic Colleges and attached Hospitals) Amendment Regulations, 2021

The amendment provides that every homoeopathic medical college shall have Close-Circuit Televisions (CCTV) system in the medical college and shall provide live streaming of college classrooms and the teaching hospital as specified, to enable the Council and Central Government to maintain a constant vigil on the standard of medical education and training being imparted.

Haryana Government issues revised CPI

The revised Consumer price index shall be effective retrospective from January 1, 2021. The average increase in in the worker consumer price index from July 2020 to December 2020 is 1301.