Sectarian violence continues in Myanmar
OnSecurity forces have been unable to stop clashes between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in the country’s west. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/06/201261281859251483.html
Day: June 12, 2022
Yearly Floods the New Reality for Rural Women
OnYear after year, women in rural areas of the southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco have to get ready for floods that threaten their homes, crops and livestock. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=108107
Dam Threatens Turkey’s Past and Future
OnHasankeyf, a small village in southeastern Turkey, has been under threat for 15 years. Home to approximately 3,000 people, the site is one of the oldest continuously inhabited human settlements, with an archaeological record going back at least 9,500 years. Now, the Ilisu…
Transforming Political Platitudes into Economic Realities
OnWhen world leaders endorse the final plan of action, titled “The Future We Want, at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil next week, a lingering question may remain unanswered: how best can the United Nations transform political platitudes into economic realities? http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=108112
Biggest Economies Still Lagging on Renewables
OnOn the eve of the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil, the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released a report Monday ranking the world’s biggest countries on their use of renewable energy. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=108113
U.S.-Pakistan Talks on NATO Supply Lines Stopped
OnSix weeks of talks between Pakistan and the United States have been halted, a Defence Department official stated here on Monday. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=108114
Green Tribunal wants Environment Ministry to strengthen public hearing process
OnThe Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has to strengthen the public hearing process and make it “meaningful” in the grant of environmental clearances for projects, according to the National Green Tribunal. The Tribunal, constituted under the National Green Tribunal Act 2010,…
GoM for relaxing Forest Rights norms
OnA Group of Ministers (GoM) has pitched for relaxing the Forest Rights Act (FRA) norms for expeditious setting up of power transmission lines, a move to spare project developers from seeking mandatory concurrence from gram sabhas. It has asked the environment ministry…
India may become first ‘fallen angel’ among BRIC countries
OnThe clouds over the Indian economy just got darker. Global ratings agency Standard & Poor’s on Monday cautioned that India seriously risks losing its investment-grade rating, citing slowing growth and political roadblocks to economic policy making as some of the factors pushing…