State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>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
Environment
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Award for Nashik is a boost for Raj
The recent Crisil award to Nashik city of Maharashtra for its innovative garbage-disposal system is a pat not only on the back of the saffron-ruled Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), but also a shot
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State to declare 10 more taluks drought-affected
Ten more taluks in Karnataka will be declared "drought-hit" in a couple of days, State Development Commissioner VKK Gore informed. Gore stated that in all, 130 taluks out of the total 176 have
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Quack rocks north Japan
An earthquake registering magnitude 6.3 on the richter scale shook Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Wednesday, the fourth tremor to jolt the region in two days,and the latest since a quake
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Fly ash continues to flow
Fly ash continued to flow into the Sutlej in the international wetland in Ropar for the second day from the breached dyke of the Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant (GGSSTP). Sources siad the fly
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Sullying the Sutlej
Reports of large inflow of fly ash into the Sutlej in the international wetland area following a breach in the Stage-I dyke of the Guru Gobind Singh Super Thermal Plant at Ropar is a cause of
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Cancun failure loss to developing world: EU
The European Union (EU) on Wednesday said that the failure of the Cancun Ministerial of the WTO has "short-changed the aspirations of the developing world in particular and the momentum that was
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Death by drought
The Jharkhand government's prompt denial of starvation deaths in Palamau district does not take anything away from the disaster that stares the people in the face Nor does it undermine the findings
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Post-Cancun: G-20 to keep up its act with meet in Argentina
Argentina has invited some members of the G-20 alliance of developing countries on agriculture issues for firming up the group's strategy later in the week. This will be the first meeting of the G-20
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New Hampshire first to sue over gasoline additive
New Hampshire has become the first US state to sue big oil companies over pollution by the gasoline additive MTBE. Peter Heed, the state attorney-general, is askign oil companies to pay for the
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Mobile clinic for slum-dwellers
The Union minister of state for sports and youth affaris, Vijay Goel, claims to have spent Rs 12 lakh from his MP fund to finance a mobile clinic to facilitate treatment of the poor slum dwellers in