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
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
Concerned over the rapid erosion of the coast along Digha, the West Bengal government has sent an SOS to the Centre urging it to take immediate steps to save the town and its neighbourhood.
Victims of the 17-year-old Bhopal poison gas leak disaster have won a major legal battle against the US Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) which had merged into the Dow Chemical Company in February this
The long wait for a reliable method to predict earthquakes may finally be over. A group of Indian geologists have found that a regular measurement of electrical resistivity of the ground surface
The Pacific Sandpiper, a 5,000-ton British-flagged freighter, departed Wednesday night for Japan from Cherbourg in northern France with a cargo of highly radioactive nuclear waste destined for
This is one agenda that has brought two Union Ministers together. Union Urban Development Minister Ananth Kumar met his predecessor and current Union Minister for Culture and Tourism Jagmohan to
The Supreme Court of the U.S. refused to be drawn into a debate over the president's power in international deal making by declining to hear a case regarding the North American Trade Agreement.
The Gujarat High Court has directed the Disaster Management Committee and the revenue authorities to submit by December 28, a complete report on the progress made in the rehabilitation of the
Ban on the immersion of Genesh idols, setting up of four air pollution monitoring centres around the Hussain Sagar Lake, besides carrying out extensive dredging operations are some of the major
Next year the whole world is gathering at Johannesburg. South Africa to discuss the future of global environment in the most important global environmental conference since the 1992 Earth Summit in
In August 1997, a few months before the Kyoto Conference on Climate Change, the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) helped launch a massive advertising campaign designed to prevent the United States form