Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent an indispensable force with which to combat inequities in access to health services and progress towards health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while …
DINDIGUL: Protection of water sources, reduction of water pollution, encouraging energy efficiency and climate-friendly trends are essential to tackle climate change and global warming, said V. Irulandi, Chief Conservator of Forests. He was addressing a seminar on issues and impacts of climate change on community held at Gandhigram Rural University …
Chandigarh: Emphasising upon the need for soil and water conservation technologies to meet the threats of climate change, global warming and melting of glaciers, Dr J P Kaushik, special secretary and director, Agriculture, Haryana, said soil health has deteriorated to such an extent that it has become the most important …
Seechewal(Jalandhar): Environmentalist Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal announced to take out a Chetna March from Jalandhar to Bikaner along the polluted natural water resources to educate people about the importance of salubrious surrounding. A panel of doctors and lawyers would accompany the march that would begin on April 1. The residents …
Chandigarh: The UT Administration has given its approval for Municipal Corporation councillors to conduct a study tour in Gujarat. A communication to this effect was received on Monday. The clearance assumes significance as the proposals for study tours that were sent earlier had been rejected. In the last tour, 19 …
TIRUCHI: Chemistry students have a vital role to play in popularising the use of bio-pesticides and bio-fertilisers among the farming community, G. Jegannathan, Member, Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education, said on Friday. In his key note address on
Dhanbad, March 15: Students from more than 82 government schools in Dhanbad came together today to exhibit their skills at a district-level science exhibition on Zilla Parishad grounds. The event was inaugurated by deputy commissioner of Dhanbad Ajay Kumar Singh. More than 100 models based on a wide range of …
Arunima Ghosh KOLKATA, March 14: Despite the Supreme Court's directive on making students aware of the environment, Environmental Studies (EVS) is being treated in a casual manner by both teachers and students of most undergraduate colleges. Many teachers consider the subject to be a burden and a majority of students …
Mumbai: Fifty-two students including eight from Mumbai have been chosen as Indian ambassadors to the International Climate Champions 2009 programme. It is a youth-oriented programme that aims
New Delhi: Nobel Laureaute R K Pachauri, Director General of The Energy and Resources Institute, will now head the newly established Yale Climate and Energy Institute, at Yale University. Announcing that Pachauri would be heading the
RAJENDRA K Pachauri will lead the newly-established Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI), which will support research and outreach, international collaboration, partnerships with business and industry, and green design efforts that can be implemented and tested within Yale and the surrounding region, Yale University president Richard C Levin has announced. …
Six students of the Sahibzada Ajit Singh Academy (SASA), Ropar, have been invited by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to Finland. The team will participate in a week-long conference at University of JOENSUU in Finland in the second week of April. The students are Ranjit Singh, Gurtej Singh, Harmandeep …
NEW DELHI: A heritage cycling ride was organised in the heart of the Capital by Delhi Cycling Club on Sunday. The event was supported by Open Planning Project and Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. The aim of the ride was to promote bicycle as a green, healthy and most …
Solan: Emulating the theme of environment and global warming, a group of Swedish painters today organised an art workshop to create awareness among the people at the Victoria Continental Inn, near Dharmapur. Secretary to the Chief Minister BK Aggarwal and Solan DC Amandeep Garg inaugurated the workshop which witnessed the …
The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in West Bengal is set to become the first such institute in the country to offer an integrated masters degree in earth science. There are five IISERs in the country, set up on the lines of the Indian Institute of Science …
