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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Germany's heat wave killed 7,000
Europe's blistering summerheat wave claimed far more lives in Germany than previously thought, with the death toll possibly high as 7,000 news weekly Focus
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Australia, US set to reach pact
Australia and the US are making progress in resolving nagging agricultural issues, and a free trade deal between them by years' end was increasingly likely, the trade minister said. Australia's Mark
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'Pollution levels in Ganga alarming'
In spite of the massive Rs 1,500 crore plan launched in the '80s to clean up the Ganga, the pollution levels in the mighty river continue to be alarmingly high and are contributing to about nine to
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Delhi happy if Cancun can't
Many people prayed for the failure of the Cancun talks as the Indian team led by commerce minister Arun Jaitley waged a grim battle against a
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Rs 1,000 fine or 1-month jail for carrying plastic
After failing to implement the first ban order on the plastic carry bags Tripura government is now all set to issue a fresh notification with more stringent measures including penal provisions. The
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Be prepared for Cancun-II
The continued hardening of positions on day two at the Cancun ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation points to a stalemate. However, one must not take excessively exaggerated reports of
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The rich hardsell, poor don't buy
Talks on trade negotiations at Cancun finally collapsed after nearly 100 of the 146 countries participating in this WTO round refused to play ball with developed countries to include discussions on
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Jaitley's Cancun
Ever since Seattle, the ministerial meetings of the World Trade Organisation have acquired a dramatic edge that may harm the cause of economic liberalisation and globalisation in the long run more
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Bengal district faces deluge threat
The West Bengal State Government stood a helpless spectator even as vast tracts of land in Malda continued to slip into the swirling waters of a turbulent Ganga and its branch Padma. A panicky
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The collapse in Cancun
The Cancun Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation, that ended on Sunday, failed to tell the world in clear terms that work on the Doha Round