Order of the High Court of Delhi in W.P.(C) 6444/2021 in the matter of Ratiram Ahirwar & Others Vs Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board & Others dated 13/07/2021. The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi in exercise of his power under Section 22 of the Building and Other Construction …
WHILE the deadline for developing countries to freeze the production of chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs) and halons ended, negotiations on the Montreal Protocol, which was signed in 1987, are expected to hot up once again at a meeting to be held in Beijing in November this year. Developing countries were to freeze …
russian ecologists have started primary investigations into several country areas which are polluted with polychlorinated biphenyls ( pcb s), a toxic carbohydrate which can cause serious health damages. Anna Danilina, a senior expert of the Russian State Environmental Committee and a member of the special commission to investigate the existence …
the only tiger safari park in north India, set up in Ludhiana in 1993 is facing paucity of funds. Officials are awaiting a grant of Rs 10 lakhs to meet expenses. "We are being able to provide food for the animals only because there is a contract with the suppliers …
india's first mass arsenic removal community-based programme to provide safe drinking water to more than 400 affected villages of West Bengal will begin in October. The Rs 9-crore project will be executed by the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health ( aiih&ph;). A large chunk of aid will …
In its prolonged fight against the drug Mafia, Colombia has launched a political offensive in Washington to request us $500m anti-narcotics aid over the next two years. If approved the aid would deepen the us government's gradual involvement in Colombia's 35-year war with rebel groups and would significantly increase the …
a last-minute gift of us $1.5 million from an anonymous donor helped a Washington State Conservation Group meet its deadline for raising us $13.1 million to save a patch of state-owned forest from the loggers' chainsaws. According to the chairperson of the group, Fred Munson, the anonymous donation came just …
The Union health ministry and the deputy chairperson of the Planning Commission have been issued notices by the Delhi High Court on a petition alleging under-utilisation of funds for health services. The division bench comprising Chief Justice S N Variava and Justice S K Mahajan have asked the respondents to …
at a time when pollution levels in Delhi have reached alarming levels, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, which monitors pollution in the capital, says that it has neither the money nor the equipment to carry out its work. The Central Pollution Control Board ( cpcb) is supposed to have provided …
ministers and heads of national delegations from 155 countries wound up a six-day conference on science in Budapest with a call to increase resources for scientific research, bridge the gap between North-South science and technology (s&t;) knowledge and harness s&t; for the betterment of society. The
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has granted US $297,000 (approximately Rs 1.2 crores) for a project to introduce state-of-the-art fuel cell buses in India. At a recent press conference, the Union minister for environment and forests Suresh Prabhu said that India will be one of the first countries in …
The fate of the controversial power plant at Bujagali Falls in Uganda will depend on the outcome of an ongoing study of all the country's potential hydropower project sites. The World Bank study will seek to establish which projects meet a set of recently adopted standards for funding. The controversial …
india is facing an acute water shortage, and various attempts are being made to overcome the problem. One such effort was made by the government of India when it set up a Hydrology Project in 1996. To support the project the World Bank made available a loan of us $162 …
United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) will provide a total of US $300 for child welfare programmes in India. An agreement, signed by Kiran Aggarwal, secretary department of women and child development and Alan Court, UNICEF representative in India, will be operative till December 2002. The objective of the programme is …
The United Nations' Population Fund (UNFPA) has denied reports that the emergency reproduction health kits sent to Albanian women, running away from the war in Kosovo, contained abortion pills. The executive director of UNFPA, Nafis Sadik, denied that health kits contained RU-486 pill, which is often used for abortion. Sadik …
the 400 mw Maheshwar hydel dam project in the Khargaon district of Madhya Pradesh has run into trouble as the two German companies, VEW Energie and Bayernwerk, have withdrawn from the project. The companies were slated to acquire 49 per cent of the equity in the Rs 1,569-crore Maheshwar project, …
according to a recent discussion paper prepared by the World Wide Fund for Nature, increasing privatisation and globalisation of the power sector will lead to ecological destruction and more displacement of people. The paper entitled
The World Bank will provide us $300 million during 1999-2000 to Pakistan for expanding phase-2 of the Social Action Programme (SAP). A high-level World Bank review mission will soon arrive in Pakistan to formally approve assistance. The bank had earlier disbursed US $270 million for 1998-99. The expansion of SAP-2 …
Ukraine has said that it would keep its promise to shut down the troubled Chernobyl nuclear power plant by the year 2000, but only if it received enough financial assistance from the West. "Till date, Ukraine's position is unchanged. Ukraine is ready to fulfil its obligation to close the Chernobyl …
The United Nations Food Agency (UNFA) has predicted that 1999 will be a difficult year as far as natural disasters are concerned. "Forecasts for the 1999 show there will be a likely increase in the number of countries suffering emergencies and number of people needing humanitarian assistance,' said a UNFA …
The construction of the Jessore-Khulna Drainage Rehabilitation Project (JKDRP) in Bangladesh is progressing at a snail's pace with only 20 per cent of the work completed. The project was designed to bring about 1,00,000 lakh hectares of land under cultivation. It includes building 355 km of canals, reconstruction of 29 …
