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
A strong earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale was detected off Guam early on Tuesday, the Hong Kong Observatory said. There were no immediate reports of damage or causalities. The epicentre
Two years back, the Supreme Court directed universities across the country to go green. And while many others did, the Delhi University is yet to sprout a shoot in that direction. Its proposal to
It is, in some ways, a do-or-die mission. Promoting the use of fly ash -a 'waste' generated by the thermal power stations - is more than a bid to make optimal use of a cheap, abundant, and versatile
The Zuari Marco-owned Paradeep Phosphate Ltd (PPL) has commissioned an effluent treatment plant (ETP), the largest of its kind in the fertiliser industry, making the beginning of a process that would
Talking about the weather is serious business in mumbai these days. Mumbaikars cannot understand why summers are getting hotter and drier, rains more intermittent and that November nip in the air
They are branded as "trouble makers'" despite the important role that they play in segregating the reusable waste from garbage. If only they refrained from burning waste at the garbage dumping or
The Union Rural Development minister, M. Venkaiah Naidu, today said the Centre would consider favourably Tamil Naidu's request to cover five more districts under the 'total sanitation campaign'. In
A stretch of nearly three km of a fishermen community village in Andhra Pradesh, 'Chinamyna vani lanka', on the sea coast in West Godavari district, was affected on account of sea erosion during the
All the 25,000 industrial units, operating in the industrial areas of Delhi, will have to apply to get "consent of operating certificates" under the existing Water and Air Pollution (Prevention) Act
The United States and the European Union are expected to take up the issue of the high incidence of anti-dumping duties in India at the trade policy review to take place at the World Trade