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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Panel formed to monitor noise pollution cases
Following instructions from the Centre, the Maharashtra government has constituted a separate authority to monitor cases of noise pollution across the state, minister for environment Surupsinh Naik
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Over Rs 15 crore released to combat drought
The Madhya Pradesh government has so far declared 155 tahsils in 32 districts are reeling under drought
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Govt order on garbage separation goes waste
Last week, the Delhi government recently made garbage segregation compulsory. The government also identified officers who will be authorised to charge a fine of Rs 500 on anybody violating the order.
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Frightening prospect of climate change
We live in a world that has become so densenitised by watching calamities - both natural and human induced. It is possible that the global warming trend projected over the course of the next 100 yeas
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EPA's whitman cites progress toward cleaner air, water
Christine Tod Whitman, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), says a review of the first year of the Bush administration shows significant progress being made toward
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NOAA says Nino continues to develop in equatorial pacific
U.S. scientists report that ocean temperature warmed 2 degrees Celsius in eastern equatorial Pacific near the South American coast in February, an additional sign that the Pacific Ocean is heading
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Environment agency reveals a major fall in the number of serious pollution episodes in 2000
A report published by the Environment Agency, reveals that the Agency responded to 47,840 reports of environmental pollution in 2000. Seventy six per cent, some 36,406 of these were substantiated.
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India, Cambodia to diversify ties
India and Cambodia today agreed to explore new avenues to diversify further bilateral cooperation in areas including agriculture, irrigation, water resources and sustainable forest management. This
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'Bill for polythene ban to be placed in current session'
Environment and Forest Minister Shahjahan Siraj on Sunday reiterated the Bangladesh government's resolve to pursue its green agenda disclosing that a bill for the countrywide ban on polythene
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A total ban on Poybags?
Nobody can deny that polybags if left around are bad for the environment. If burned they are even worse polluters as they can affect human health yet, despite all this, the drastic action taken by