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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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• Another Bhopal in the making in Mumbai?

  Conventional wisdom has it that waste management must be done in a sustainable manner. But the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has chosen an unsustainable and hazardous technology to manage

  • 27/05/2002

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• War on pollution

  The Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation is constructing 14 Common Effluent Treatment Plants in the 28 industrial areas to ensure that the discharge from industrial units into the Yamuna is

  • 24/05/2002

  • Frontline (Chennai)
  • • Environment

• The earth cracked

  Doomsday prognostications regarding global warming have plunged environmentalists in gloom, for unusually warm temperatures have been recorded in different parts of the world. This gloom has been

  • 26/05/2002

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• YAP's second phase to settle resettlement issue

  The Municipal Corporation of Delhi's slum and JJ department is all set to launch the second phase of the Yamuna Action Plan in the next few months. The second phase, to be completed within two years,

  • 26/05/2002

  • Statesman (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• TNPCB campaign against noise pollution falls on deaf ears

  All campaigns by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control board(TNPCB) and the Chennai city Police on the abatement of noise pollution seems to have fallen on deaf ears at Saidapet, which is now awaiting

  • 31/05/2002

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Environment

• Parties ignore ban on plastics

  Political parties have gone in for plastic flags and festoons as part of campaigning for the May 31 byelections despite the Tamil Nadu Government move to ban the use of non-reusable

  • 31/05/2002

  • Hindu (Chennai)
  • • Environment

• Climate change to affect millions

  Millions of people in Bangladesh are likely to be affected by climate changes because of greenhouse gas emissions that the country is particularly vulnerable to, says a World Bank study. "While

  • 23/05/2002

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Environment

• Talks on "Earth summit "

  Thousands of officials, activists and business people from 189 countries began talks on Monday on Indonesia's Bali island to discuss ways to safeguard the planet in the face of global development.

  • 28/05/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Expectations of El Nino

  In 1997, El Nino brought one of the fiercest forest fires to Australia and one of the worst floods in Indonesia. El Nino disrupts the ocean atmosphere system in the Pacific, which affects the weather

  • 26/05/2002

  • Week (Kochi)
  • • Environment

• Kathmandu Valley to have pollution metres

  The Kathmandu Metropolitan City is going to install seven pollution metres to check air quality in different locations of the Kathmandu Valley. Seven air pollution metres will be installed in seven

  • 17/05/2002

  • • Environment