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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YSR accuses Govt of adopting delay tactics in drought works
Congress legislature party leader Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy on Sunday accused the state government of adopting dilly-dallying tactics at a time when several parts of the state had been reeling under
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Pollution watch
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board's Chennai Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme has shown that the Particulate Matter in T. Nagar traffic intersection was highest at 598 micrograms/cubic
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Dust continues to blanket Valley, thanks to bad roads
Nearly two million people living in the Kathmandu Valley are becoming increasingly prone to various air-pollution related diseases as officials fail to check the trend, and lack of coordination
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It's canard, says Arjun Singh
Famous French writer Dominique's Lapierre's latest work - It Was Five Past Midnight In Bhopal, Co- authored by Spanish Xavier Moro, has triggered a controversy with the release of its English
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Ignorance of the ill effects of polythene on the environment
On an average 55 lakh pieces of polythene bags are being used in Dhaka city alone. One sees them everywhere: on the streets, in landfills, drains, ditches, open fields and even on
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Nature comes to the rescue of Saurashtra
Salinity ingress on the Saurashtra seacoast has been a problem for years inspite of a spate of measures taken during the last three decades or so. So the 'Srinagar of Saurashtra' famous for its
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Centre to seek SC's permission to wind up Dahanu protection authority
The Union Cabinet has decided to approach the supreme court to seek permission to wind up the Dahanu Taluka Environment Protection
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Study examines coral reefs
Blasted by dynamite, contaminated with poisons and smothered by pollution, coral reefs are dying faster than previously thought, according to a study published Tuesday by the United Nations. The U.N.
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Stockholm lenders meeting okays Russia eco-projects
Multilateral lenders, the European Commission and Russian officials meeting in Stockholm yesterday endorsed plans to step up funding of environmental projects in Russia and the Baltic Sea region, the
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Coral Reefs : poisoned, choked and bombed
The most complete study ever carried out on the world's coral reefs warns that many of these critical, valuable and beautiful ecosystems face extinction because of rising temperatures and human