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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MCD to install moveable dhalaos
Faced with the problem of scarcity of space and resistance from citizens, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided not to construct any more concrete dhalaos. Instead, the MCD would install
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Bengal pollution board helps clear city air
A monk at the Ramakrishna Mission order had to fall in line with this environmental regulation as did the owners of scores of industrial units big and small. All were found to be guilty of the same
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Take care to protect domestic industry: Rudy
As developed countries remain the major producers of environmental goods and the developing countries the net importers, the process of liberalisation of trade in these goods should be so crafted as
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AEEPL in talks with BSES for carbon trading venture
Net flows of carbon calculated for India may not have changed since 1990, but this has not prevented prospective players, including comparatively small-sized environmental consulting firms, from
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Ecological event
The students and staff of Saviour Senior Secondary School were all geared up when they participated in an event caled "Water-Hole Census". It was a two-day event which is held every year, at Sariska
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HC directive to Kancheepuram authorities on sewage discharge
The Kancheepuram district(Tamil Nadu), administration shall consider and pass orders on complaints from the residents of Srinivasa Nagar in Madipakkam regarding the discharge of untreated sewage into
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No magistrates to curb littering
The much awaited concept of mobile magistrate, who would fine those guilty of littering public places, remains a distant dream. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had claimed earlier that these
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Salt drives pollution into aquifers
Pollution in coastal sea water might get into freshwater aquifers (layer of rock or soil able to hold or transmit water) more easily than scientists had suspected. This could worsen the shortage of
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Ship carrying soda ash sinks off Bengal coast
Indonesian ship M V Sigitika Biru, carrying soda ash, is sinking in the Bay of Bengal, off Sandheads.The sinking may pose the threat of major water pollution. Twenty-two crew members have been
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Green with Envy
The EU has an admirable track record in environmental friendly development initiatives. Fro proof, see its dead serious approach to the Kyoto Protocol. See also the enviable support enjoyed by the