governmental purpose (purposes, motives, goals of government)

The Maharashtra government today withdrew its “Mahamitra” app from Google Play Store, with the Directorate General of Information and Public Relations (DGIPR) claiming that “it was not necessary to continue the app as its purpose was fulfilled”. On March 27, former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan had ...

The current national fuel economy targets, which were championed by California and adopted by the Obama administration, represent the single biggest action the federal government has taken to curb greenhouse gases. They are crucial for California and other states to meet their goals for climate action ...

Good government is supposed to move communities forward. ... That's how government, ideally, should work if the goal is to get anything accomplished. ... The goal was never to infringe upon the rights of property owners, but instead to ensure the rights of everyone in the community by enabling them to live ...

Margaret “Peg” Gibbons, 69, a journalist believed to have had the longest tenure in the Montgomery County Courthouse press corps, and respected by politicians and government officials despite her withering questioning of their policies, practices, and motives, died of a heart attack March 30, at her ...

Apr 02, Colombo: The Joint Opposition has brought a no-confidence motion (NCM) to disrupt the government of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and dissolve it, says State Minister of Power and Energy, Ajith P. Perera. The State Minister says that, the joint opposition ...

Upon review of the fiscal plan submitted by the Puerto Rico government last week the oversight board — probably partially in response to Bishop's prodding — mandated a 10 percent cut on governments pensions, amendments to the economic projections, reductions in the savings estimates and ...

The LSE researchers argue the UK should now ramp up its decarbonisation ambitions and set a new overarching 'net zero' emissions reduction goal, backed by several amendments to the existing Climate Change Act, in order to strengthen its ability to hold the government to account. It adds that tightening ...

The poll found that 30 percent of American adults — 35 percent of whites and just 8 percent of blacks — said all or most of the goals of the 1960s civil ... The poll includes a total of 388 black respondents, who were sampled at a higher rate than their proportion of the population for purposes of analysis.

Live stream: National holds government to account in Question Time ahead of PM's meeting with Barack Obama. now .... The skipper's combination with goal attack Shanice Beckford was slick, the pair sinking 13 from 15 attempts to keep pace with the Silver Ferns in sharing the lead 13-13 at the first break.

National governments are responsible for meeting the UN's set targets on 17 different global sustainable development issues, by the year 2030. These 17 ... Though the overall responsibility to reach these lies with national governments, the effort to create a sustainable future by reaching these goals is not ...

The proposals and corresponding metrics were released Tuesday under the “workforce for the 21st century” cross-agency priority goal. The Trump administration unveiled its CAP goals as it released its president's management agenda, updating the priorities for the first time since it directed agencies to no ...

Speakers at the 'Sustainable Development Goals: Words to Action' event, organised by the United Nations Association of Australia in Sydney. ... Goals (SDGs), and the country's government needs to accelerate action to meet the goals, said non-government and private sector experts at a recent event in ...

RELATED: The race to fund the government is on (again). Taxes: There has been a lengthy negotiation over a handful of "fixes" to the 2017 Republican tax law. Democrats have publicly been opposed -- they passed it on their own, they can fix it on their own, is the public stance. But behind closed doors ...

However, the government supported "in principle" the recommendation that it expand the safe harbour scheme to cover all providers of online services, including cloud computing services, search engines, and online bulletin boards, rather than just ISPs. Since then, the intellectual property chapter of the ...

Building 80 more stations over the next four years could help Japan catch up to the government's goal of opening 160 by 2020. By then, Japan wants 40,000 fuel cell vehicles on its roads. Even more ambitious is the 2025 goal to reach 320 stations and 200,000 hydrogen vehicles, on the way to a 2030 goal ...

Mr Ofori Boateng, the Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Security Systems, the largest Solar PV module manufacturers in West Africa, has stated that the solar companies in the country stand in readiness to partner government to meet its proposed solar energy goals. Commenting on the statements made ...

Joining a growing global trend to demand governments protect their citizens from climate catastrophe, a group in the United Kingdom has sued the ... The Paris Agreement reflects this understanding, setting the more ambitious goal “to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above ...

"Labour will commit to the redevelopment of Buller Hospital on the existing site, with all of the funding coming from the Crown . . . This will cost up to $20m in capital. Labour commits to developing a fit-for-purpose hospital, which reflects the community it serves," she said during the September 14 visit.

Last November, Holyrood passed Scotland's first child poverty bill, which reintroduced the statutory targets abolished by the UK government a year earlier. The four goals, which include reducing relative poverty from 26% to 10% of children and absolute poverty from 21% to 5% of children, must be met by ...

The government has said it will focus on three main goals over the coming year: tackling China's exposure to financial risk, reining in rampant pollution and continuing to combat poverty. In his opening report to parliament, Mr Li announced the new military budget, saying the army must be "strong as stone" ...

Without specific government programs allowing monopolistic behavior and extending government intellectual property protections for extended periods (something ... The purpose of government, and of an economy, for that matter, was to benefit society, rather than to create a class of the morbidly rich.

VICTORIA — Finance Minister Carole James says the goal of her budget's new housing taxes is a downturn in the market and a drop in home prices, potentially making the market more affordable but also potentially putting some existing homeowners under water on their mortgages. James said ...

To build a United States government of the worst people, one must not merely be amateurish. It requires a ... The reality is that the United States is now learning to live without a functional president or government. They are out ... That was a political own goal, compounding her terrible performance. But the ...

Before the 1980s, the U.S. system of government had functioned reasonably well along the lines dictated by the U.S. Constitution and following the ... spelled out the democratic principle that “all contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.