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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CM not shaken by amputed leg
It definitely takes more than somebody's amputed leg to shock the Delhi chief minister and the state chief secretary out of their lives. Or so it seems. Ms Sheila Dikshit had told on 19 January that
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GMCH to impose fine on throwing wastes
In connection with the College Week of the Gauhati Medical College Students' Union, a cleanliness drive was conducted in and around the hospital premises, a press release issued by the
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India ratifies protocol on transgenic safety
In the face of rising concerns over Genetically Modified Organisms, India has ratified the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. Recognising the potential of biotechnology to offer solutions in the area
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EU likely to bar talks at Doha on four sectors
The European Union is expected to bow to political and popular concern about public services, by ruling out talks in the Doha world trade round on further liberlisation of its health, education,
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Pact will force companies to list pollutants
Companies will have to disclose, factory by factory, their output of toxic waste and pollutants under an international pact finalised last week in Geneva by more than 30 countries in Europe, central
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UN meet drops brown cloud issue
As the UN Environment Programme meeting moved into its ministerial segment, the Indians got some good news. With the drafting committee agreeing to drop the Asian brown cloud research issue
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Punjab to disburse drought relief
The Punjab government will disburse drought relief for paddy purchased during kharif season 2002-03 through arhtias. The total amount to be disbursed is about Rs. 154 crore. Disclosing this a
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Gas based crematorium now?
As part of environment friendly measures, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi is seriously exploring the option of using compressed natural gas as a fuel at cremation grounds in the city. The Leader
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Gehlot threatens Delhi march for drought aid
Driven up the wall by acute paucity of funds back home and the Centre's "apathy" in providing drought relief assistance, the Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, has threatened a "march" to Delhi
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Stone crusher sealed for violating pollution norms
The Minister for Forests, Fisheries, Environment and Ecology, Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Sofi has ordered sezure of Krishna Stone Crusher at Channi Himmat, functioning illegally, the order to this effect was