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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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• Oki promises to focus on Kyoto pact

  Newly appointed Environment Minister of Japan Hiroshi Oki said he will focus on having the Kyoto Protocol put into force and helping Japan build "political momentum" in the runup to the August

  • 10/02/2002

  • • Environment

• ONGC, OIL polluting ground water : report

  A report on the ground water resources of the Brahmaputra basin, prepared by the Central Ground Water Board, North-east, has pointed out that mega industries like the Oil and Natural Gas

  • 10/02/2002

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Environment

• Quake hits east Japan

  A moderate earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 jolted eastern Japan on Monday. There were no reports of damage or

  • 12/02/2002

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Jal Board to set up small effluent plants to clean up Yamuna

  Delhi government is getting its act together to meet the Supreme Court's deadline of cleaning the Yamuna by 2003. In a meeting of the Yamuna Safai Abhiyan today, a decision was taken to set up small

  • 13/02/2002

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Green activism: a case of West doublespeak?

  When the world meets at Johannesburg later this year to take stock of green agenda that world leaders agreed to a decade ago, Indian Government's one-point agenda would be to push for more aid from

  • 12/02/2002

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Orissa to get cyclone detecting radars

  While it may not be possible to prevent natural disasters like cyclones, the damage from them can be significantly contained by timely anticipation. This seems to be the guiding principle behind the

  • 12/02/2002

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Move to make leather an 'eco-product'

  The Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) is launching a programme to make leather an 'eco-product'. According to Dr. T Ramasami, Director of CLRI, the aim is to make both the product and the

  • 12/02/2002

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• AusAid project brings better civic services to B'lore slum

  The Cement Huts, a slum near J C Road in Bangalore City with 107 families, now has improved drains and concrete roads in their locality besides shared water connections and a community toilet block.

  • 08/02/2002

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Environment

• Poll boycott over smoke, noise

  Fed up with the "failure" of politicians to shift about 100 polluting industrial units from several residential colonies of the Jalandhar constituency with which about 30,000 residents have been

  • 12/02/2002

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Industrial effluent forcing Bagmati treatment plant to shut down

  The multi million dollar sewerage treatment plant and tunnel constructed to facilitate the flow of clean water in Bagmati river near the holy temple of Pashupatinath in Nepal has not helped much. The

  • 04/02/2002

  • • Environment