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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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• How much noise is too much noise?

  How loud is loud? The West Bengal Pollution Control Board(WBPCB) has set 90 decibels as the limit for Diwali fire-crackers. Tamil Nadu's fireworkers manufacturers feel 125 db (A) is perfectly safe

  • 13/10/2001

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Metro first phase to be ready by 2005

  Giving top priority to development of a strong transport infrastructure in the National Capital Region, the NCR Planning Board has decided to complete the first phase of the upcoming Metro Rail

  • 15/10/2001

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Heavy rains claim 9, many marooned in Sindagi village

  Nine persons including four children and three women have died following heavy rains in various parts of north Karnataka region since Saturday night. The incessant rains have also caused the collapse

  • 09/10/2001

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Environment

• Antarctica clean-up to gather pace

  Australia said on Friday it would accelerate the clean-up of decades of waste threatening Antarctica's environment after a donation of specialised containers from a French firm. The Antarctic nations

  • 13/10/2001

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Clean-up act

  The Tamil Nadu government launched an innovative project of integrated sanitary complexes, the first of its kind in the country, last week. The State government has drawn up a Rs 250-crore blueprint

  • 14/10/2001

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• HC order on Philips Carbon trial run

  A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today directed the Pollution Control Board to take immediate steps to issue necessary steps to issue necessary certificate to Philips Carbon Black Ltd.,

  • 05/10/2001

  • • Environment

• Haryana seeks nod for eco-clubs in schools

  The Haryana Government has approached the Central Government for permission to set up an eco-club in every high and senior secondary school of the State consequent upon the decision of the Water

  • 13/10/2001

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• San Joaquin Valley agrees to cut air pollution

  Faced with the threat of a lawsuit, officials with the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District today agreed to settle with four community groups a dispute about the implementation

  • 09/10/2001

  • • Environment

• Warning by State PCB

  The AP Pollution Control Board has warned of severe action if transporters carried effluents

  • 12/10/2001

  • Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
  • • Environment

• World Bank reduces quake reconstruction loan to $650m

  The World Bank has conveyed to the Gujarat government that it would not be possible for it to sanction $1,000 million, as initially planned for its emergency quake reconstruction

  • 12/10/2001

  • • Environment