Had conveyed info on EMCC to State, Minister tells LS
The Hindu
The Centre had informed the State Government as early as October 2019 that the Consulate General of India (CGI) in New York could not verify the credentials of the US-based company that had proposed an MoU for deep-sea fishing, Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan told the Lok Sabha during question hour on Wednesday.
In a written reply to a question raised by N.K. Premachandran in the House, he said the Ministry of External Affairs had directed the CGI in New York to verify the address and credentials of M/s EMCC Global Consortium LLC following a request from the State Government. The CGI sought the details through a communication to the company on October 14, 2019.Aasheesh Pittie says birdwatching is not very unlike hunting, except that nothing is killed. “You track… you want to follow the bird… see it,” he says about this activity that he has pursued for nearly fifty years. Pittie, the editor of the ornithological journal Indian Birds, author of many classic reference books about birds and most recently, a collection of bird essays titled The Living Air: Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching, was speaking at an event organised by the Archives of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).