Counter affidavit on behalf of Chief Municipal Engineer, Patna Nagar Nigam in the matter of Saurav Narayan Vs Bihar Pollution Control Board & Others dated May 20, 2025. The report said that the corporation has been diligently performing its statutory duties within the limitations of the available resources and infrastructure. …
In the last week of April, the Zimbabwean government invited two un bodies to conduct a joint food-security survey in the country. The Food and Agriculture Organization (fao) and the World Food Programme (wfp) have been called in the wake of a second consecutive drought in the south African nation. …
"Humne khule mein shauch jaane ki pratha chhod di hai (We have stopped defecating in the open)'. Painted against a whitewashed wall of the primary school in Baruki village, Uttar Pradesh's Bijnaur district, the slogan claims victory in the battle against this practice. But the reality is a little different: …
The Norwegian government has stopped funding World Bank's Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), says World Development Movement (WDM), a UK-based group. Norway's move comes close to the recent collapse of water privatisation scheme in Guyana, says Vicky Cann of WDM. Norway is the sixth largest donor of PPIAF. "By …
The United Nations World Food Program (wfp) has said it will withdraw food aid from Angola, citing its failure to mobilise donors to support the programme. In a recent announcement, it said the three-decade-long relief operations in the country would start winding up from the end of 2006. wfp's current …
International financial institutions (ifis) avoid investing in troubled states. It just doesn't make good business sense. Then why do ifis such as the Asian Development Bank (adb) and the World Bank feel attracted to India's northeast? Does the vacuum of governance in some of these states suit the ifis or …
The Asian Development Bank (adb) held its 39th annual meeting in Hyderabad on May 3-6, 2006. Scorching temperatures did not prevent a lively network of 100 Indian and international groups, organised as the People's Forum Against the adb (pfaad), from greeting adb with demonstrations, corner meetings, panel discussions, cultural programmes …
The Asian Development Bank (adb) has decided to double its lending to India by 2008 in the areas of water, transport, energy and urban infrastructure. The amount will go up from us $1.3 billion in 2006 to over us $2.5 billion in 2008. adb president Haruhiko Kuroda said, "India still …
feizal samath Colombo all foreign-aided ngos operating in Sri Lanka have been put under the scanner. A Parliamentary Select Committee, constituted by all political party-representatives, will examine if the ngos are involved in any illegal activities and keep a vigil on their source of funding. The move has come close …
India will play host to the Asian Development Bank (adb) at its 39th annual governors' meeting scheduled for May 3-6 in Hyderabad. Over 3,000 people will participate in official events and thousands more will protest what they see as flawed advice and harmful projects peddled by this public institution. Since …
the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (jbic) announced a Rs 560-crore loan to the Orissa State Forestry Sector Development Project on April 4, 2006. The state government had been negotiating for this loan since 1998-1999. However, the decision is facing stiff opposition from communities that promote forests and from environmental …
The International Finance Corporation (ifc), the private sector arm of the World Bank, has recently adopted a new set of regulations for companies borrowing from it. The new rules, called the policy and performance standards on environmental and social sustainability, add to the existing framework of the Equator Principles, (see …
The World Bank (wb) has 184 member countries, but only one, the us, selects its president. In March 2005, the Bush administration anointed Paul Wolfowitz
un agencies said on May 23, 2005 that even with the help of international aid, it will take at least five to 10 years for countries hit by the December 2004 tsunami to recover fully. "Usually it's more like 10 years,' un Development Programme (undp) disaster recovery specialist Andrew Maskrey …
Water deaths: Over 75 people, mostly children, have died after drinking polluted water in the past one-and-a-half months in Pakistan's Sindh province. Another 6,600 have been admitted to various hospitals, media reports said. "The entire summer is ahead but local municipal authorities have not taken any steps. Contaminated water is …
Nepal's poorest people are being forced to suffer the consequences of an alleged attack by Maoist rebels on an aid worker recently. Debkala Acharya, a female worker involved in the Rural Community Infrastructure Works (rciw) in Kalikot district, is recovering from her injuries. The assault led to the German Development …
Delayed aid: Sri Lanka's tsunami reconstruction work has been delayed by three months due to non-payment of foreign aid. The government announced on February 7, 2005 that donors had finally approved the payment US $1.5 billion aid for and "its from now the construction phase begins'. But this happened only …
The world's 81 poorest nations will now get more aid. The development fund of the World Bank's (wb's ) International Development Association for providing aid to these countries was recently raised from us $23 billion to us $34 billion. This is the biggest increase in funding for the programme in …
British generosity is at an all time high. The uk is providing us $74 million debt relief to Tanzania. The deal was signed on January 14, 2005, during the visit of uk finance minister Gordon Brown, who was touring African countries. The uk will now pay 10 per cent of …
