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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NGOs protest inside conference venue
Despite efforts by the organisers of the Cancun ministerial meeting of World Trade Organisation, NGO activists protested inside the high-security conference venue forcing the multilateral body to ban
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'Save walled city'
The first ever concerted and serious effort after independence is being done to save fast deteriorating walled city. Chandni Chowk MP and Union Minister of State Vijay Goel has taken an initiative to
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DU to recycle paper
The Delhi University Student's Union elections produce 1.5-2 tonnes of waste paper. Each strike in the varsity generates 2-3 tonnes of waste paper. Add to it another half-a-tonne on a daily basis
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BJP leader dies in Bihar flood
A BJP leader from Samastipur district was among four persons drowned in the flood water taking the toll in the current spell of flood in Bihar to 146 as the Army and civil authorities began relief
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Glacial indifference to a Himalayan problem
Environmentalists and climatologists are deeply concerned over the rapid shrinking of the Himalayan glaciers the origin of most of the rivers in northern India even as the government seems glacially
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Showdown in Cancun
The world's attention should be focused on the World Trade Organisation's meeting this week in Cancun, Mexico, for reasons having nothing to do with the antiglobalization protests. The protesters are
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Typhoon Maemi hits S Korea, 47 killed
A powerful typhoon pounded the southern part of South Korea, leaving atleast 47 people killed or missing and causing significant property damage before leaving the
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Italy's old fall prey to Europe's heatwave
Some 4175 more elderly people died in Italy during one month of this summer's European heatwave than in the same period of 2002, the Italian health ministry said. The data, covering the period from
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Entrepreneur honoured
The President of DevelopmentAlternatives, Ashok Khosla has been selected as one of the world's most "Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs" by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in Geneva.
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India blocks Cancun agenda
The Cancun WTO ministerial appeared to be going the Doha way as India, along with several developing countries like China and Brazil, stalled the talks as the revised draft declaration failed to meet