The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Development
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Chinese / Western financing of roads, dams led to major Andes Amazon deforestation
International development finance institutions (DFIs) invested heavily in large-scale infrastructure projects that triggered significant deforestation in the Andes Amazon especially within the nations
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UN rights experts urge Kenya to stop forced evictions of slum dwellers
UN human rights experts on Friday called on Kenya to stop forced mass evictions from Kibera informal settlement in southwest Nairobi and until adequate legal and procedural safeguards are in place.
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Mombasa Fishermen Demand Compensation after loss To Developers and Pollution
Fishermen in Mombasa County have demanded that action be taken against developers who have destroyed the Kibarani fishing grounds. Speaking yesterday at the Tudor landing site under the umbrella of
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Rising temperatures to carry big price tag in steamy Sri Lanka
Dinesh de Alwis has lived all his life in Ratmalana, a suburb of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo. When he was young, he remembers, he would rush outside every day at 4 p.m., to play with friends after school.
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Rights Groups Condemn Evictions in Kenya's Largest Slum
Rights group Amnesty International has condemned the demolition of homes, shops and schools this week in the Kibera section of Nairobi. The forced eviction left more than 10,000 of the city's urban poor
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Kenya: Kibera demolitions leave thousands homeless
Thousands of people in Kenya's largest slum are now homeless after two days of demolitions by a government body that human rights activists are calling a "violation of the law". The Kenya Urban Roads
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China's rare Yangtze porpoise numbers still in decline: government
The population of critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoises has continued to decline in recent years despite intensive conservation efforts, China’s agriculture ministry said following a survey.
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NGT judicial member says environment development cannot be sidelined
Pune: Justice Sonam Wangdi, judicial member of the Pune bench of National Green Tribunal, said here on Sunday that ensuring the apt development of environment was key to achieving progress and development
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Governance of the bioeconomy: a global comparative study of national bioeconomy strategies
More than forty states worldwide currently pursue explicit political strategies to expand and promote their bioeconomies. This paper assesses these strategies in the context of the global Sustainable Development
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‘Everything we’ve heard about global urbanization turns out to be wrong’- researchers
The United Nations predicts the world's urban population is expected to grow to 70 percent by 2050 from 55 percent at present after becoming majority urban for the first time around 2008. Reuters 12 Jul