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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Cost of nuclear waste clean-up increases to 48bn
Estimated costs of Britain's civil nuclear waste legacy have risen to around
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New garbage collection project in PS area
A. M. Amiras Majeed, Chairman of the Panadura Pradeshiya Sabha (Sri Lanka) introduced a new concept for the daily collection of garbage from houses. A fleet of bicycle carts will call at houses in
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Powerful typhoon ramasun threatens Okinawa islands
A large, powerful typhoon packing winds of up to 162 kph was moving northwest and threatening to strike Okinawa, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. At 3 p.m., Typhoon Ramasun was in the Pacific
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US report questions safety of sewage sludge fertilizer
Sewage sludge used to fertilize U.S. gardens, golf courses and farms should be investigated by the EPA to see if the thick mud-like material may also cause illnesses, an independent science panel
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Industrial waste dumping
A local non-government organisation, (Bangladesh) Action now, arranged a seminar recently on the 'Quality of Cement Produced by the Private Sector' in which it was alleged that both developed and
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5 children dead as floods hit Bangladesh
Monsoon downpours caused flooding that drowned five children and left some 100,000 people trapped in their homes in northern Bangladesh, officials said on Wednesday. Flood waters rose as high as
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China warns of floods
China's central government has warned authorities along major flood-prone rivers to prepare for the worst floods of the year, an officials newspaper reported on Wednesday. In central and eastern
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Dyeing units refuse to shift despite government's concessions
The concessional rate of Rs 828 per square yard, announced by the Haryana government on Tuesday, for plots in sectors 29 and 30, to which small dyeing units would shift notwithstanding, the shifting
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SCB given more time to build dumpyard
With the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) asking for more time to construct an alternative dumping facility for garbage, the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has extended the deadline for
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Protect nature and it will protect you: CM
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu harping on his pet theme water conservation and tree plantation at a meeting organised by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board he explained