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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Soil erosion in Bengal
Expressing serious concern over the continuous erosion caused by river Ganga in West Bengal, members of Parliament form the state have urged the Planning Commission to announce a special
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Eco errors
A forest isn't just "A stand of trees growing close together". Glaring eco-errors and misconceptions such as these found in Indian school textbooks and taught by ignorant teachers are finally to be
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Parties sidetrack effluent problem
Perhaps the most striking aspect of the campaign in the Vaniyambadi constituency of Tamil Nadu that is going to the polls on May 31 is that no political party has made any promise to find a viable
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Where is Babu's green corps?
The Government's decision to set up a state level directorate for the National green Corps and start eco clubs in nearly 9,000 schools is being given a quiet burial by the officials of the
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Clean and Green
Adoption of cleaner technologies by industries would reduce environmental pollution and make greater use of waste water : A report.
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GAO warns MTBE fuel leaks in water more widespread
Contamination of water supplies by MTBE is more widespread in local communities than previously thought, because the gasoline fuel additive has leaked from pipelines across the United States, the
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More villages may come under Yamuna plan
The Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Om Prakash Chautala, has directed the Public Health Department to make a survey of big villages whose polluted water falls in Yamuna so that these can also be included
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'Clean Ganga' launched
The Save Ganga Network to clean the Ganga was launched at a workshop organised by the Osho World Foundation in the Capital on Sunday. Vijay Bhatkar, the "father of param 2000 super computer",
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Maharashtra seeks Rs. 500 crore from calamity fund
Maharashtra has sought a grant of Rs 500 crores on an urgent basis from the National Calamity Relief fund to meet the drought conditions being faced by the
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18 more die in heat wave
A day after the record the record busting heat, the temperature dropped by over a degree, but 18 more people died in south Bengal, three of them in