The state of the world’s human rights 2024
This report documents human rights concerns during 2023 in 155 countries, connecting issues at global and regional levels and looking forward to the implications for the future. States and armed groups
This report documents human rights concerns during 2023 in 155 countries, connecting issues at global and regional levels and looking forward to the implications for the future. States and armed groups
Magistrate Court of the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) on Sunday fined a foreign vessel Taka 25 thousand for pollution of environment by emitting black smoke at Chittagong Port area, CPA sources
The hospitality sector will find retaining their rating a more daunting task following stringent norms on eco-friendly measures and social obligations prescribed by the Union government. With the aim
The Supreme Court has rejected the plea of an NGO seeking statutory environmental clearance of the ambitious river networking project envisaging to link all major rivers in the country by 2016 to
The State Pollution Control Board has found a large number of pollution devices installed in rice shellers, saila plants and cupola and induction furnaces technically inferior to control pollution
Australia said yesterday it was seeking to join a World Trade Organisation (WTO) challenge against the European Union's five-year-old ban on new genetically modified foods in the latest of a string
Damage to crops, caused by weeks of heat and drought in Croatia, is estimated at 1.4 billion kuna ($215 million), Agriculture Minister Bozidar Pankretic said. A state of natural disaster has been
Top global energy company Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N) is the poorest performer among leading world energy producers in responding to global climate change and disclosing greenhouse risks to investors,
The president of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee, Girija Vyas, castigated the Opposition BJP for indulging in "negative politics" on drought through its State unit President, Vasundhara Raje
European Union lawmakers will decide yesterday whether to get tough on firms that pollute the environment, under a new eco-liability regime industry fears could bring incalculable extra costs. The
The south bank of Brahmaputra river in Dibrugarh district of Assam, faces serious erosion each summer, Rohmoria circle off Dibrugarh town being the worst-affected. But till date no scientific and