numbers used for divvying up congressional seats among states in a process known as apportionment....

( 1991 water apportionment) accord.... They will also face the shortages as per these shares so

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1 under an accelerated process that the court has previously used only rarely and in some of its most notable decisions, including the Bush v.... We see things differently, ” Roberts wrote. Although the water source at issue in this case is water from hundreds of feet below the surface, Roberts wrote that “ we see no basis for a different result.” Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III praised the decision.... It’s a clear victory for Tennessee on all issues, and for all states who

It is crucial to the water supply of 25 million people in the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson and Las Vegas. Crippling drought in the U.S. West has brought Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the nation’s second-biggest reservoir, to historic lows.... 16 issued an official shortage declaration for the massive Western reservoir of Lake Mead for the first time, triggering water cuts to the drought-stricken Southwest.... Reuters Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are writt

Join our Whatsapp channel LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly’s Standing Committee on Excise has approved a bill amending the Punjab Urban Immovable Property Tax Act, 1958( V of 1958) for introducing a reward mechanism for individuals, both citizens and excise officials, who report cases of tax evasion. The proposed legislation likely to sail through the House says that any person who provides credible information leading to the detection of property tax evasion will be recognised as a “ whistle-blower

In a letter, Nawab Talpur of Sindh said his note of dissent was necessitated against the backdrop of the current water shortage in Sindh and Balochistan in the late Kharif season 2021 but had larger and more long-term implications.... Para 14( b) required that “ these ten daily uses would be adjusted pro-rata to correspond to the indicated seasonal allocations of the different canal systems and would form the basis for sharing shortages and surpluses on all Pakistan basis ”.... Mr Talpur said

Join our Whatsapp channel ISLAMABAD: Pakistan could face up to 30-35 per cent water shortages during the upcoming kharif cropping season starting April 1.... Repairs and construction were ongoing at three major tunnels, and the Mangla powerhouse was being refurbished.... However, because of the shortages, this para has not been in application for more than a decade as Irsa, with the involvement of federal and provincial governments, put in place in 2002 a cascading water distribution share mec

KARACHI: Steel producers on Tuesday asked the Federal Board of Revenue( FBR) to remove the ambiguity in the sales tax rules due to which they have not been able to supply steel to tax-exempt mega projects in Gwadar including free zone and airport and others. Pakistan Association of Large Steel Producers( PALSP) Secretary-General Syed Wajid Bukhari in a statement said that in the absence of a proper mechanism for availing sales tax exemption the producers could take benefit of this incentive.He s

Join our Whatsapp channel ISLAMABAD: The Indus River System Authority( Irsa) has called back-to-back meetings of its technical and advisory committee on March 25 and 26 for finalisation of water estimates and provincial shares for the coming Kharif season amid uncertainties over filling capacity of Tarbela Dam. The meetings are taking place at a crucial stage when the Tarbela and Mangla dams are at their dead level, meaning there is no water storage at all.... The provinces are facing 51 per ce