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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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• Drought situation alarming, says AP minister

  The drought situation in Andhra Pradesh is getting worse by the day and the Government has almost given up hope of any improvement in the kharif season, as the south-west monsoon even in the retreat

  • 21/12/2001

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Sensitise people to save the Yamuna, say activists

  With just over six months left for the Delhi government to meet the Supreme Court's deadline to clean up the Yamuna, activists feel that the only way to find a permanent solution to the problem is to

  • 21/12/2001

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• 65 killed in floods

  Central Vietnam, battered by flash floods and landslides that have left 65 people dead in the past four days, was on the alert on Tuesday for more heavy rains as tropical depression approached the

  • 25/12/2001

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• US park polluted

  The great Smoky Mountains is the nation's most polluted national park, with air quality rivaling that of Los Angeles, environmental groups said in a survey released on Monday.

  • 25/12/2001

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Increase drought relief, says CPM

  The CPM sought the Prime Minister's immediate intervention in tackling the serious drought situation prevailing in different parts of the country and demanded an increase in financial aid to the

  • 21/12/2001

  • Tribune (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Jo'burg Summit has not come up to expectations, says Sinha

  India has demanded "full and effective" participation of the developing countries in the global economic decision making institutions and asked them to provide a "coherent" and collective response to

  • 21/12/2001

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• Green norms stall ITC aqua project expansion

  Efforts to expand aquaculture have become difficult in view of the strict environmental norms put in place to monitor the use of feeds and treatment of effluents from such farms. "The pollution

  • 20/12/2001

  • • Environment

• IMF slams rich countries on trade

  Trade barriers, mostly erected by rich countries, are eating up $650 billion that could otherwise be used to improve livelihoods around the improve livelihoods around the world each year and limiting

  • 25/12/2001

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• EC mulls scrapping blue-box farm sops

  The European Commission has circulated an internal proposal at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for the consideration of its ministers suggesting removal of all bluebox agriculture subsidies and

  • 25/12/2001

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)
  • • Environment

• NGOs help BMC clean up beaches

  As the chant of Ganpati Bappa Morya fade into the air and revellers return home ,for the Bombay Municipal Corporation and some NGOs it's clean up time. The immersion of Ganpati idols have left in its

  • 22/12/2001

  • Free Press Journal (Mumbai)
  • • Environment