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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Pollution control: closure notice to industry
The Pollution Control Board, Assam, has served notice on M/s National Silicate and Chemical Works, Ambari Fatasil, Dhirenpara, Guwahati and directed it to stop its activities immediately and report
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Award for KSRTC
The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has bagged the Golden Peacock International Award 2003 for environment management. The award will be presented at the World Congress of
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Where pollution is part of life
The residents of Royapuram, Tamil Nadu have to contend with air and water pollution caused by factories and iron ore deposits. During summer in Royapuram, a tinted inshore wind turns everything a
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Farm talks to dominate Cancun'
Trade on agricultural products will be top of the agenda of the next round of multilateral trade talks under the World Trade Organisation (WTO), scheduled to be held in Mexico later this year,
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Transboundary pollution
It can be said with confidence that the quality of air in Bhutan is cleaner than any other places in the region. Forests cover almost 72 per cent of the country and pollution levels are comparatively
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'Eco-system of Mount Everest in danger'
Society for Environment Protection and Human Rights (SEPHR) has strongly condemned the increase in civilisational activities atop Mount Everest, world's most fragile ecosystem, in wake of the ongoing
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Steelmaker, NEDO forge emission ties
In a bid to secure carbon dioxide emission rights, Nippon Steel Corp. (Japan) plans to join forces with the New Energy and Industrial Development Organisation in providing technology for reducing
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State turns a wasteland as Rain God stays away
Nandlal Bhesdadiya of Moti Banuga village near Jamnagar in Gujarat has never heart of the Met Department. But, the deep furrows on his worried face speak of a calamity almost as accurately as the
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Drought relief funds go unutilised in Frontier
The Drought Emergency Relief Assistance (Dera) programme, financed by international donors, has yet to take off in the NWFP where utilization of funds under it remained at the zero level during the
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Light at the end of a toxic tunnel in Alang
Hope could be on the way for thousands of ship-breakers in Alang, Gujarat, the world's biggest ship-breaking yard, which has laid a miserable record of polluting its environment and putting its