The Madras High Court has invoked the "parens patriae jurisdiction" to declare Mother Nature as a Living Being with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person, in order to preserve and conserve them.
Reliance is the top-ranked Indian firm on the list at No.53, followed by State Bank of India at No. 105, HDFC Bank at No. 153 and ICICI Bank at No. 204.
A Gopalakrishnan, Director of ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute has won the VASVIK (Vividhalaxi Industrial Refinement Development Centre) Industrial Research Award for the year 2020 in the category of Agricultural Science and Technology.