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. …
The Ethiopian economy has received a major boost in the form of debt relief by the Paris Club countries, comprising mainly Western nations, and the African Development Bank. Announcing the cancellation of us $758 million of debt, the Paris Club nations recently said Ethiopia's outstanding debt was us $153 million …
the us has charged India with lack of commitment in fighting aids while justifying its choice of Vietnam for its emergency hiv/aids assistance. Vietnam has now become the15th nation in the world to benefit from the us aid. It will receive us $8 million to us $10 million in the …
On April 29, the British High Commission donated Rs 13 lakh to non-governmental organisation (NGO) Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF) to clean up a few ghats along Ganga river in Varanasi. Past experience in this holy city of Uttar Pradesh (UP), however, suggests that the money could end up going down …
Multilateral donors have warned Bangladesh that they might slash aid or withdraw it altogether from the impoverished country, if it fails to fulfil commitments to control corruption. The adoption of such remedial measures can prop up Bangladesh's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2-3 per cent from its present 5.5 per …
a report published by wwf-Germany shows that some of the most renowned banking institutes of the world are financing environmental and social disasters. During the assessment, German, Dutch and Swiss banks were rated according to their environmental and social standards for investments. They were ranked as per their existing standards, …
the Centre for Global Development, an international mission to fight poverty, and the Foreign Policy magazine have released the second annual Commitment to Development Index (cdi) titled "Ranking the Rich 2004', which rates 21 industrialised countries for their impact on developing nations. The Netherlands is at the top of the …
hc cracks whip: Reprimanding the state-level committee over its inability to find zones for stone-crushers, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has ordered the closure of all such units. The owners of the state's stone-crushing units may, however, approach the court for a vacation or modification of the order. Announcing that …
See more graphs • The total number of people living on less than US $1 a day in the LDCs during 1995-99 was 307 million. Total population of the LDCs is 613 million • With most of the resources meant for immediate survival little is left to build a country …
Africa is reeling under a double whammy. As if the erratic weather pattern that has led to a widespread famine was not enough, corruption and mismanagement has compounded the people's misery. Two seasons of crops have been devastated, first by flood and then by drought. The continent is grappling with …
The year 2001 may have been declared as the year of volunteers, but the Orissa government has other ideas. Recently, the state finance minister Ram Krushna Patnaik introduced a resolution in the state assembly to curb the powers of some 2,000-odd non-governmental organisations (ngos) operating in the state. "We want …
Why was this resolution introduced? As the state assembly has to still discuss the resolution, it would be unconstitutional for me to reveal the reason. We only want to know how much money, from which all sources and for what purpose the NGOs are getting. We want to make them …
in the face of mounting pressure, pharmaceutical manufacturers have abandoned their challenge against the South African Government over the pricing of aids medication. After more than 24 hours of final negotiations, the pharmaceutical companies and the South African Government reached agreement. The withdrawal paves the way to the production and …
the mood was unusually sombre. The brochures and other papers concerning development projects being run in India - unmistakable presences under normal circumstances - had been removed from the offices of several foreign funding agencies in the embassies in New Delhi's diplomatic enclave. Officials were remarkably reticent to furnish any …
Mahbub ul Haq Across the border, Mahabub ul Haq of Islamabad's Human Development Centre, former finance minister of Pakistan and an eminent name in the development arena, was severely critical of the nuclear tests by India and Pakistan. "With the explosions, we have made sure that our future generations remain …
The World Bank (WB) is to provide financial assistance to Bangladesh for tackling the growing menace of arsenic poisoning in this tiny southeast Asian nation. A programme is expected to be finalised by mid-1998, said Pierre Lendis Mills, WB's country chief in Bangladesh. He announced that an amount of US …
The United Nations (UN) Children's Fund (UNICEF) is calling for support for efforts to raise the minimum recruitment age for children in the armed forces. A working group in Geneva is dealing with the issue. It will be drafting an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the …
