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 …
Every monsoon, Natore in western Bangladesh is affected by rising water levels, rain and the floods making it difficult for students in local villages to attend school. Government-run schools become inaccessible, making it impossible to travel unless one owns a boat. Mohammad Likhon looks furious as he sits in class. …
School students here have started a campaign.They collect plastic and polythene from their dustbins at home, bring them to school and then sell the stuff to scrap buyers. They started this campaign to make the city plastic-free. Dr Susan Raaj, director, Sagar Mitra Project, thinks that when three `Hs' would …
Universities to get permits to examine medium-risk industries. Visakhapatnam: As part of the Ease of Doing Business initiative, educational institutions could also now conduct environmental compliance inspection of industries as third parties. As per the recommendation of Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the APPCB has already issued the …
Madurai: The ideas and perceptions of young minds on protecting the environment will be used to decorate the walls at important places in the Madurai Corporation soon. The Madurai chapter of Soroptimist International (SI), a volunteer service organisation for business and professional women, is working in co-ordination with the Madurai …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Delhi University to ensure that no paper in the form of posters, pamphlets used for camapigning on campuses are wasted during the DUSU elections due in September. The tribunal has also directed the colleges to enforce the Lyngdoh Committee recommendations and take steps …
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today said that his Ministry will work to make students environmentally sensitive by adopting sustainable practices and low carbon lifestyle. Observing that India played a “very important” role in the recent Paris Climate Change conference and arrival of a consensus for the agreement “would not …
The Mysore Science Foundation conducted a nature walk for students on the premises of Kukkarahalli lake here on Sunday to provide greater exposure to the participants to the world of birds and environment. K. Manu of the Mysore Amateur Naturalists (MAN) was the resource person and explained the importance of …
It is not just all work and play that the young indulge in on a day to day basis. There are many in the city who have joined hands to make sure we all have a better green tomorrow. From college clubs to student groups, there are a number of …
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 …
