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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World trade talks hit new barrier
Troubled world trade talks missed another deadline on Wednesday with no deal reached on how to cut tariffs on industrial goods, envoys said. World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations, launched at
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New tremor stirs panic in Algeria
A fresh tremor struck Algeria on Wednesday, stirring panic in a country still recovering from an earthquake that killed 2,200 people last week and an aftershock believed to have buried several people
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Rs 342 cr drought relief for TN farmers
About five million farmers who have lost their crops owing to drought in Tamil Nadu will be paid Rs 341.92 crores in relief by the government. Announcing this, chief minister J. Jayalalitha said the
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The threat is real & alive
December 3, 1984: It was worse than a nightmare. Around 1 am, in a densely populated locality of Bhopal, a poisonous vapour burst out from the tall stacks of the Union Carbide pesticide plant. The
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Hygiene@development
To help fight the poor public health condition in rural Orissa, Gram Vikas Orissa, an NGO, has worked out a Rural Health and Development Programme (RHEP). The project follows three basic principles
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Cattle forced to eat tendu patta, teak leaves
The severe fodder crisis created due to drought this year has forced the cattle to fill their stomachs with tendu patta and teak leaves. It is notable in Guna that the cattle never ate these leaves
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Drought may dry up murrel supply
The worst-ever drought in four decades is likely to creat a shortage of murrel fingerlings affecting the administration of the famous fish medicine by the Bathini family on June 8.Several fish ponds
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Draft proposes longer time-frame for poor nations to eliminate tariffs
Industrialized countries will have to eliminate tariffs on industrial products in five years from January 1, 2005, those in the third world will have to longer period of 15 yers to do so from this
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Rs 22 crore for drought-hit areas
The Karnataka government on Tuesday released rs 22 crore for taking up employment generation programmes in drought-hit areas, Minister of State for Revenue M Mallikarjun Nagappa said in Bangalore.The
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Compensation for farmers
The Tamil Nadu government would give away Rs 324.32 crore to compensate farmers who incurred losses due to then severe