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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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• Time running out for polluting units in Agra

  With just a week left for the Supreme Court deadline of September 30, polluting industries are making last ditch efforts to buy time to stall the execution of directive to close all industrial units

  • 24/12/2000

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• UNESCO urged to probe life of Orissa tribals

  The Congress will appeal to the Unesco to conduct a special study on the problems of the tribals in south Orissa. Congress general-secretary Chandan Bagchi said here on Sunday. Studies by many

  • 24/12/2000

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Delhi will be divided into zones to probe risk of quakes

  Delhi, which falls in an area of high seismic activity, has become the first metropolis in the country to undertake microzoning to assess the hazard and risk levels of earthquakes on a site-specific

  • 22/12/2000

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Recycling of used mercury stressed

  Mercury used in jewelry making and other metal works can be reutilized, which will not only save money but also environment. Participants of an interaction on 'Cleaner Production Technology and

  • 15/12/2000

  • • Environment

• $400m ADB-aided Kolkata project to be inked soon

  The long-delayed $400-million mega Calcutta environmental improvement project, being funded by the Asian Development Bank , is scheduled to be signed next week, finally, following its finalisation by

  • 24/12/2000

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Oil slick causes harm to fish species in Bay

  Continuous oil slick and water pollution off the Chittagong coast are leant to have killed 160 species of rate fishes and aquatic plants. Bangladesh's territorial water, with its famed marine flora

  • 15/12/2000

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Environment

• City to have cleanup drive, fines for litterbugs soon

  In a move to make Delhi clean, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi has decided to launch a sanitation and cleanliness drive in the city.The MCD has also decided to appoint more than 70 municipal

  • 19/12/2000

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Smoke risk is seen as slight.

  The persistent pall of smoke wafting from the remains of the World Trade Center poses a very small, and steadily diminishing, risk to the public, environmental officials and doctors said. There could

  • 15/12/2000

  • International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
  • • Environment

• CM announces Rs 321 cr for relief works.

  Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu deliberated on a series of measures to tackle the severe drought sweeping the State and announced sops to the tune of Rs 321 crore amidst walkout by

  • 16/12/2000

  • Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
  • • Environment

• State washes hands off Musi.

  In typical bureaucratic style, various agencies involved in implementing the Clean Musi River Project passed the buck over the delay in preparing the Detailed Project Report. The drama was witnessed

  • 17/12/2000

  • Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
  • • Environment