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 …
An overwhelming majority of Indians surveyed feel that civic bodies across the country have been ineffective in reducing the use of polythene bags in the first two years of the Swachh Bharat initiative in spite of the central government and the National Green Tribunal banning their use. As many as …
Ahmedabad: RR Rashmi, additional secretary of ministry of environment, forest and climate change, launched certificate course on climate change at Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Ahmedabad, on Monday. The first batch comprises of the communicators who were aboard Science Express: Climate Change Special (SCCAS) for over nine months covering length …
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Video-game developers are competing this week in a contest that will reward games that combat neither mortal enemies nor monsters but climate change. Four finalists have made it to the last round of the Games for Change Climate Challenge, the winner of which will …
Mysuru: Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE) under its third Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) programme will organize a 10-day course on 'fate and transport of contaminants in the environment' on its premises from Monday. The course tutor is professor Rajesh Seth, department of civil and environmental engineering, University …
There aren't many publications in our country dedicated to the environment beat. Sadly, the ones that exist are often mired with the perception of being boring. To check how true the perception is, once an editor of one of the environment-based magazines published a hoax article replete with jokes. Nobody …
Vadodara: In a first, M S University has launched a certificate course on green buildings. Admissions for the short term programme that will be run by the university's Centre for Lifelong Learning and Extension (CLLE) have kicked off. "No other educational institute has so far launched a programme on green …
Comics for Change is Dainik Bhaskar's initiative to bring about behavioral change in society promoting responsible consumption through the creative and visual medium of comics. Sundarvan Adventures - Mystery of the missing water is the first comic to be released in this series. Being signatory to UN Global Compact Network, …
With World Environment Day (June 5) just around the corner, we take stock of sustainability initiatives practised by corporates in and around the city Lighting Lives ‘Lighting Lives’, the CSR project of Henkel India, has seen the installation of solar cells in three villages situated in the Palghar district of …
ULBs, TPs, GPs asked to follow MCC; plastic-free drives on April 23, 24 Deputy Commissioner C Shikha, on Tuesday, directed the local bodies in the district to impose a total ban on plastic, complying with the government’s decision to ban all types of plastic in the State. Presiding over a …
In an effort to provide hands-on training to State government officials for formulating and submitting proposals for accessing climate change finance under the National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change (NAFCC), Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Adaptation Fund Board (AFB), the Environment Ministry held the third regional workshop with State governments …
Pune: From fresh graduates to those with years of engineering experience, people lining up to attend the Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Systems certificate course at be a part of a course in the Savitribai Phule Pune University seem to span generations. The 'hit' course was which has been especially designed after …
BENGALURU: The water coolers at VMware Software's city office no lon ger serve as gossip cor ners Employees of the Palo Alto California-headquartered virtual computing firm here prefer huddling by the trash bins. Every time Chirag Arora, a senior technical researcher at VMware in Bengaluru, wants to dispose paper or …
The Central government has pulled the plug on two major grassroots-level environmental initiatives in Kerala that have made remarkable progress in recent years, leaving them to an uncertain future. The State science and technology establishment is preparing to wind down the National Green Corps and National Environment Awareness Campaign, the …
A little more than a month ago, the Indian government unveiled a grand campaign to spur innovation among startups. The Startup India programme, a pet project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hopes to harness the ‘energy and drive’ of a ‘nation of youngsters’ in order to dramatically boost job creation …
Class XI students of Shri Natesan Vidyasala Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Mannivakam, presented nine technical papers on environmental issues at a seminar recently organised by the school. The papers analysed issues relating to corporate social responsibility, Bhopal tragedy, environmental corruption, need for preserving bio diversity, BP oil spill, El Nino …
Noida: Father Agnel School in Greater Noida's Sector Beta 2 pipped 500 schools from across the country to emerge as the 'greenest school'. The award given away by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on February 23 came as part of a green school programme promoted by the CSE. …
Ten schools from across the country were given awards by a Delhi-based body for following environment-friendly practices like proper waste and water management. More than 500 schools covering most of the states and union territories participated in the event organised by Centre for Science and Environment while the top ten …
More than 50 schools of the city were felicitated at a function organized by the Waste Warriors, a local voluntary group, for being part of Microsoft Create to inspire the environment education school programme at a function held at Welham Boys’ School here. The felicitation was the final event of …
The neighbours have stolen a march on the capital.Three weeks after the UP government imposed a blanket ban on plastic carry bags in the state, officials of Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad claimed their consumption has fallen by 80%, adding they hope to reduce it further soon. Noida officials said …
HRD is one of the several ministries being asked to assist in the government’s Namami Gange programme. The Human Resource Development Ministry has been asked to help set up a national-level institution or a university that offers courses on applied river sciences in order to create expertise in cleaning and …
