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
Environment
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Waterway dreams wasted
The validity of a project for desiltation of vital canals is being questioned as it has been found that waste is drained into these canals from 59 points in the city and the slaughter house at Palmer
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Path-breaking technique to contain landslides on NH-44
Among the network of national highways in North East, NH-44, regarded as the life-line of Barak Valley in Assam, Mizoram, Tripura, Manipur and eastern part of Meghalaya, is most prone to landslides
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US has to budge on trips & public health: WTO brass
The draft agreement on Trips & Public Health prepared by the Trips Council in December last year has to be accepted by the US in its original form as there is not much room to make more changes. Key
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Insurance Cos in Jitters as EU house asks polluters to pay up
The European Union Parliament in Strasbourg has passed what is being seen as a far-reaching directive, mandating that whoever causes environmental pollution will be responsible for the costs of
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Optimism on Doha
In a series of three exclusive interviews published in our columns over the past week, some of the key players in multilateral trade negotiations exuded optimism about the prospects for the Doha
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Rail project causing pollution
A major environmental catastrophe has unfolded in parts of Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir endangering lives of thousands of local people. The air pollution caused by heavy vehicular traffic
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Living behind a smoke screen
With an average duty-span of eight hours a day, traffic policemen are clearly one of the worst hit by vehicular pollution in Kolkata city. A traffic personnel on duty at eh Tollygunge Circular Road
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Drought: Shinde accuses Centre of denying funds
Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today lambasted the NDA government for adopting a biased attitude towards Congress-ruled states, blaming it for not sanctioning adequate relief to combat
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BMC rectifies defect in bio-waste incinerator
For almost two months, the chimneys of the bio-mdical waste incinerator in sewri's TB hospital have been spewing out pollutants that are almost eight times higher than the permissible limit. The BMC
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Better market access for green goods sought
India today said there was a need to improve market access for environment friendly products from developing countries. "We believe that there is a need to have a balance in the World Trade