This paper presents a status report of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) on two crucial development parameters—inequality and poverty—that have a significant bearing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; especially SDG-1 and SDG-10). The paper tracks the origins and movements of absolute and relative poverty, …
Bangladesh joins hand with 12 other Tiger Range Countries (TRC) to save global tiger population. Tiger is treated as one of the most critically endangered animals fast disappearing from the world. Only 3,200 big cats [Penthera Tigris] of five sub-species exist in the wild of 13 countries including Bangladesh. Back …
Justin GillisMost researchers trained in climate analysis offer evidence to show that weather extremes are getting worse.It will be a while before scientists publish definitive analyses of the Russian heatwave and the Pakistani floods, which might shed light on the role of climate change.The floods battered New England, then Nashville, …
Promoters of nuclear plants need patience and deep pockets. That’s the lesson being reinforced for India—from a showpiece project in its backyard and another in Finland, where French company Areva’s flagship project, is running into time and cost overruns. Both have implications for India’s programme of taking nuclear generation capacity …
Moscow: As if things in Russia were not looking sufficiently apocalyptic already, with 100-degree temperatures and noxious fumes rolling in from burning peat bogs and forests, there is growing alarm here that fires in regions coated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago could now be emitting …
Vladimir RadyuhinMOSCOW: A catastrophic drought and wildfires that have hit much of Russia this summer may slash its grain harvest by more than a third against last year.Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Russia is likely to harvest 60 to 65 million tonnes of grain this year, compared with 97 million …
Several regions of the world are currently coping with severe weather-related events: flash floods and widespread flooding in large parts of Asia and parts of Central Europe while other regions are also affected: by heatwave and drought in Russian Federation, mudslides in China and severe droughts in sub-Saharan Africa. While …
Deaths in Moscow have doubled and are now averaging 700 people a day amid a sweltering heat wave and poisonous smog from wildfires, a top Russian health official said Monday.Scorching heat and acrid smoke blanketed Moscow as smog from raging forest and peat fires shrouded Russia
Moscow: Deaths in Moscow have doubled and are now averaging 700 people a day amid a sweltering heat wave and poisonous smog from wildfires, a top Russian health official said on Monday. Moscow health chief Andrei Seltsovky blamed weeks of unprecedented heat and suffocating smog for the risein mortality compared …
Richard WrayRussia is the world's second largest producer of barley after the EU and the cereal crop is used by many farmers as animal feed.Shoppers could see the cost of the meat and poultry in their baskets rise as the price of barley has more than doubled over the past …
Missiles Moved Out Of Depot As Toll Rises To 52Moscow: A noxious smog choked Moscow on Friday as Russia moved to protect military and nuclear sites from the relentless spread of wildfires that have killed 52 people. The defence ministry ordered the evacuation of missiles from a depot outside Moscow …
Wheat prices surged to a two-year high while shares in European brewers and food producers fell on Friday as markets reacted to the sudden imposition of a ban on grain exports from drought-hit Russia.Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin moved decisively on Thursday to halt exports of grain and flour from …
Vladimir RadyuhinMOSCOW: Wildfires in Russia have grown to catastrophic proportions, forcing evacuation at the country's main nuclear facility, causing a steep rise in the death rate, and wiping out whole villages.The Russian nuclear agency Rosatom said it had removed all radioactive and explosive materials from the Federal Nuclear Centre near …
The Indian government, at the last round of commercial negotiations with Russia for the supply of four additional reactors at Kudankulum, had wanted the contract to include a clause allowing for the
Moscow: Russian firefighters on Sunday battled the flames from spreading forest fires that have already killed 30 people, destroyed thousands of homes and mobilised hundreds of thousands of emergency workers. The emergency situations ministry said on Sunday that forest fires had engulfed more than 128,500 hectares across Russia. It mobilised …
A prominent scientist said hundreds of people could die as smog from peat fires blanketed a sweltering Moscow for a second day on Tuesday. The Moscow region chief Boris Gromov asked Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to allocate 25 billion roubles ($827 million) to fight the fires smoldering in the forests …
