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• 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

  • 24/04/2024

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• Chocked drains

  The Rs 251 crore common effluent treatment plant(CETP) project faces closure. The Supreme Court had directed the Delhi government, some eight years ago, to install these 15 CETPs in the industrial

  • 27/12/2002

  • • Environment

• Database for disaster relief

  When the next natural calamity strikes India, district officials in a number of areas will be able to go online and quickly mobilise support for evacuation, search and rescue, medical assistance and

  • 27/12/2002

  • • Environment

• Exhibition on society free of pollution

  Hundreds of students from various schools, belonging to local bodies wing of the city government, organized a colourful exhibition to highlight the significance of pollution free environment. The

  • 24/12/2002

  • • Environment

• Meghna washes away 2 villages in Barisal

  The continuing erosion by the river Meghna washed away at least 900 houses and 300 acres of land in the last seven days. Two villages were completely obliterated from the map by the erosion rendering

  • 23/12/2002

  • • Environment

• Corporate sustainability ranking renewed

  The latest annual league table of most sustainable large companies, globally and in Europe, has been released by index makers Dow Jones, Stoxx and Sam. The partners claim that over

  • 19/12/2002

  • • Environment

• Extreme weather to blame for pollution in the Baltic

  A report, jointly undertaken by the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) and the European Commission, has found that extreme weather, coupled with an increase in man-made nutrients, was to blame for the

  • 19/12/2002

  • • Environment

• European business briefs: air emissions; REACH; wind farms; water award

  Euro Chlor, the chemicals trade lobby group, has published air and water emissions of eight organic chlorinated compounds as well as mercury from its members' plants, running from 1985 to 2001. The

  • 19/12/2002

  • • Environment

• IMF, WB to initiate trade talks post-Cancun

  The World Bank and the IMF said they would ask governments, including India for their views on how to carry forward multilateral trade talks after the collapse of the Cancun summit in Mexico. Summing

  • 25/12/2002

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Get ready for a colder, foggier winter

  Experts at the India Meteorological Department expect that winter this year would be colder and also more foggy, thanks to the good south-west monsoon that is still continuing to hold sway over most

  • 25/12/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• 'Big failure on cleanliness front'

  The Congress ruled Municipal Corporation of Delhi has failed miserably to maintain sanitation and cleanliness in the Capital and it was deteriorating every passing day, the Leader of Opposition in

  • 25/12/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Environment