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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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• Will the fine on litterbugs also go up in smoke?

  Even though most residents of Delhi have hailed the State Government decision to fine litterbugs, they are sceptical whether the order can be enforced; they also harbour misgivings that the order

  • 23/10/2001

  • • Environment

• An ode to Kalidasa's six seasons in Noida

  An ecological park, the first of its kind, based on ancient Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's potrayal of the six Indian seasons in his work Ritusamhar, is going to come up in Noida soon. The ecological park,

  • 23/10/2001

  • • Environment

• Antony scores a political point in tribal 'victory'

  Kerala's tribal agitation which stayed in glaring media limelight for almost the whole of its 48-day-long period has put the CPM in a piquant situation with its belated realisation the Chief Minister

  • 22/10/2001

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Environment

• HC to hear noise pollution PIL after Navratri

  The Gujarat High Court will hear after three weeks a petition challenging police commissioner's circular allowing the use of loud-speakers during Navratri up to 1.30 a.m.

  • 21/10/2001

  • • Environment

• Antarctic clean-up programme begins

  Australia is spearheading an initiative to remove an estimated 300,000 tonnes of accumulated waste material deposited across Antarctica from decades of international exploration and scientific

  • 19/10/2001

  • • Environment

• Vietnam floods kill 311, most victims children

  Storms and floods have killed at least 311 people, most of them children, in the Mekong Delta and central Vietnam in the last few weeks, a newspaper and officials said yesterday.

  • 23/10/2001

  • • Environment

• Shellfish warning over water pollution

  Shellfish consumers are being put at risk of food poisoning to avoid higher water bills, shellfish producers claim as the European commission launches a prosecution against the government for failing

  • 22/10/2001

  • • Environment

• HC directs PCB to probe into pollution

  The Andhra Pradesh High Court directed the AP Pollution Control Board and the Ranga Reddy District Collector to conduct an inquiry into the pollution caused by Sri Gayatri Star Chem Ltd at

  • 20/10/2001

  • Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
  • • Environment

• Mining world seeks natural remedy for toxic waste

  Using materials such as bonemeal or seaweed, scientists hope natural waste will one day serve to combat dangerous mining waste that can cause serious illness in humans and kill plant and animal life.

  • 23/10/2001

  • • Environment

• HK awards Disney contracts amid environment concerns

  Hong Kong awarded contracts worth about HK$2.08 billion (US$266.7 million) to China State Construction Engineering Corp (CSCEC) yesterday to build infrastructure facilities for phase one of its

  • 23/10/2001

  • • Environment