The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
widespread resistance to a new uranium mine and processing plant in his long-time Pulivendula assembly constituency in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh has come as a shock to chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy. People from his pocket borough have dug in against his pet project: a 26.79-million tonne uranium …
holocaust-denial laws are the ultimate bunkum. Just think about it. The state of Israel has used the history of the Nazis to perpetrate untold miseries on the Arab world. This is not a rant. Think about recent history. The Western powers divided west Asia, creating Israel, a Jewish oasis in …
the Gujarat High Court division bench comprising Justice K R Vyas and Justice Akshay Mehta came up with comprehensive guidelines for manhole workers on June 27, 2006. This was in response to two petitions filed, following the death of 12 manhole workers in the state in 2005. The petitions brought …
Essar Steel is working on a special resettlement and rehabilitation (r&r) package for its proposed 6 million tonne steel plant in Chaibasa in Jharkhand. The proposed Rs 1,200-crore project will require about 1,012 hectare (ha) of land, mostly to be acquired from tribal marginal farmers. It will require displacement of …
the Union ministry of communications (moc) has plans for a blissful world, one in which lampooning or mockery shall be anathema. As part of its plans, it prohibited access to certain blogs and websites. It later revoked the ban when its impracticability became plain. Anyhow, the ban raised pertinent questions. …
function table() { var popurl="image/20060615/7-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=540,height=250,scrollbars=yes") } the recommendations of the parliamentary joint committee (jpc) on the Scheduled Tribes (Recognition of Forest Rights) Bill 2005, tabled on May 23, 2006, is likely to stoke the debate on conservation vis-
The researchers explore how globalization, broadly conceived to include international human rights norms, humanitarianism, and alternative trade, might influence peaceful and food secure outlooks and outcomes.
Acontroversial audit report of the Office of the Compliance Advisor, an internal audit body of the World Bank (wb), has finally been released after being cleared by the B ank's president Paul Wolfowitz. The report looked into the wb- backed Dikulushi copper and silver mining project in the Democratic Republic …
May you be the mother of a hundred sons.' That's a popular wedding blessing in many parts of India. It aptly captures a notorious feature of Indian society: son preference. This is accompanied by a cruel aversion for daughters. When the punishment is light, women in Indian live with monstrous …
• Kriti Infoplace, a development documentation centre has released its annual diary-cum-people's movement chronicle for 2006. Recording the most prominent and pertinent campaigns for water, human rights, environment, the diary provides a comprehensive report on the year gone by. • Japanese Internet providers and police have joined forces to prevent …
netting laws flouted: Italian fisherfolk continue to flout the European ban on use of driftnets. A recent report points to loopholes in the Italian law as one the main reasons for this. The report demanded urgent action to stop illegal fishing of swordfish and tuna, and to protect cetaceans like …
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) came out with a controversial declaration in October 2005, claiming to protect human respect from advanced bio-science research. UNESCO's "Universal Declaration on Bio-ethics and Human Rights", released in Paris, is its third text on bioethics. It "addresses ethical issues related to …
the prime minister (pm), Manmohan Singh, has asked the ministries of environment and forests (moef) and tribal affairs (mota) to iron out their differences over the Scheduled Tribes (recognition of land rights) Bill 2005, at a recent meeting of the ministry officials, stakeholders, conservationists and tribal rights activists. The granting …
the National Human Rights Commission (nhrc) recently issued a notice to Andhra Pradesh (ap) chief secretary on a complaint that chemical pesticides had threatened the right to life of farmers and agricultural workers. G V Ramanjaneyulu and Kavitaa Kuruganti of Secunderabad - based Centre for Sustainable Agriculture were the complainants. …
women's rights received a shot in the arm with the Hindu Succession (Amendments) Bill, 2004, passed in the Lok Sabha on August 29, 2005, which guaranteed over 400 million Hindu women in India equal rights over agricultural land and joint property in the Hindu Undivided Family (huf). The bill grants …
How did you come in conflict with the paramilitary Rangers? It started in 1977, when the Rangers were deployed at the border along the coastal belt of district Badin in Sindh. They gradually took control of all water resources in the area, and an exploitative contract system evolved. Local fisherfolk …
ON MAY 11, 2005, the Lok Sabha passed the Right To Information (rti) Act, an improved version of the Freedom of Information Act of 2002. "Eventually the right to information enables the redistribution of power in a democratic framework,' says activist Aruna Roy, for long involved in demanding such a …
