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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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• 'Benefits should substantially exceed environmental cost'

  Justice S Radhakrishnan, a sitting Bombay High Court Judge, has opined that the logic of environmental impact assessment, a leading norm of international environmental law, demands that the economic

  • 09/12/2001

  • Herald (Panjim)
  • • Environment

• Polluted water kills two, 24 taken ill

  Bandaal village in Fatehpur block is in the grip of gastro-enteritis with more than 24 persons, including children, ill. Two persons have already died. Health officials have rushed to the village to

  • 17/12/2001

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• 60 tanneries face closure

  In a significant development which may result in the closure of about 60 tanneries, set up at Leather Complex here under a special project of the Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation

  • 17/12/2001

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• The die is cast for 25 recalcitrant dye units

  The residents of one of the most polluted cities in India can breathe easy now. Adopting a tough posture against the dye house owners, the Panipat district (Haryana) administration has sealed 25 dye

  • 17/12/2001

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• IIT study seeks to demystify the Asian Brown Haze

  Research by the Indian Institute of Technolgoy-Bombay could provide some of the much needed answers on the Asian Brown Haze a three-km-thick layer of harmful microscopic particles that covers all of

  • 14/12/2001

  • • Environment

• Aftershocks can't shake people off quake-damaged buildings

  When a strong aftershock measuring 4.5 on the Richer scale hit Bhuj town last week, Pravin Darji and his family ran out of their home barefoot and scared. After the devasting earthquake more than one

  • 13/12/2001

  • • Environment

• Milk, meat production affected due to drought

  The central team comprising four members on Wednesday visited Nizambad district to take stock of the drought conditions prevailing there. District collector G Ashok Kumar explained to the team about

  • 12/12/2001

  • • Environment

• Water board draws plans to cleanse Musi by 2005

  The Hyderabad metropolitan water supply and sewerage board has drawn out plans to restore Musi river to its pristine glory. The river once a drinking water source, now taking in sewer inflows and

  • 12/12/2001

  • • Environment

• Immersion adds 1540 ton soil in Upper Lake

  The immersion of idols in the upper lake for years has increased glass wastes and soil in it to a great extent. Chemicals of various types were also reaching in the lake that were polluting the

  • 14/12/2001

  • Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
  • • Environment

• Volcano erupts

  A volcano on a remote Indonesian island has erupted, spewing plumes of ash into the air and forcing hundreds to flee, an officials news reports said on Thursday.

  • 27/12/2001

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Environment