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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Sonepat villages facing drought like conditions
A long dry spell and non-availability of sufficient power to the tubewells have created drought like conditions in many villages of the district. According to Mr Azad Singh Nehra, secretary of the
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Govt. tells drought-hit to fend for themselves
Much before the advent of monsoon, Rajkot district administration in Saurashtra have begun shutting down drought relief works, ostensibly because the Gujarat state government is feeling the cash
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Hindon caught in a whirlpool of toxic waste
While Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and a number of officials were seen cleaning the Yamuna on World Environment Day, nobody environmental NGOs, politicians or administration seems to have ever
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Bangalore waste to get a new life from tomorrow
As part of its Swachha Bangalore drive, the Bangalore City Corporation (BCC) will launch a garbage segregation programme from Sunday in Jayanagar, Malleswaram and Richards Town and distribute bags to
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Hottest summer in 8 years
Summer months are only getting worse with each passing day, for the people of the Capital. Scorching sun, high temperature, humidity and dust haze made life miserable for many. For officials at Met
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Fresh temor rocks Taiwan
A powerful earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale rocked Taiwan, but no casualties and damage were reported, seismologists said. The quake, which took place 36 km east of the township of
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Coal pollution hits Vasco, CM in a fix
While the rape of the ecology and environment continues unabated in the hinterland of Goa, Vasco-da-Gama, a port city has fallen prey to the dubious, anti-environment ways of coal traders and the
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In Majuli, people learn to live with floods
For the 1,50,000 islanders of Majuli, Assam, the floods leave a trail of destruction almost annually, with clusters of villages washed away, paddy fields submerged and cattle and poultry drowned,
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Drought affecting far-western region
Many mountainous settlements in the far-western region are facing a severe drought recently. It is learnt that due many water-sources drying up not only people but the animals in this region are
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Liquid waste treatment plant in Patnitop to check pollution
Patnitop Development Authority (PDA), Jammu, would be constructing two Liquid Waste Treatment Plants to treat the polluted water in the area. To be built by UP Jal Nigam on Norweigian technology in