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Group of scientists seeks President's intervention to withdraw proposed LDAR

The proposed Lakshadweep Development Authority Regulation of 2021 is highly problematic and will work against existing legal provisions that safeguard the resilience of Lakshadweep's ecology,......

The Armed Forces's COVID-19 Challenge

'The COVID-19 pandemic must push the military into a long-term reconsideration of its primary challenges.''There must be greater emphasis on humanitarian aid and disaster relief including the......

Time has come to say goodbye to single-use plastic: Modi @ UN meet

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced that India would raise its target for restoring degraded land from 21 million hectares to 26 million hectares by 2030. Speaking at the 14th session......

Will South China Sea verdict make region 'cradle of war'?

'The worst case scenario is for China to behave like a bull in a China shop, and brazenly and wantonly indulge in further encroachments, create obstacles to free navigation and convert the SCS......

Modi and Obama set out to create a model for the world

Moving ahead with their new mantra -- Chalein Saath Saath: Forward Together We Go -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to deepen cooperation in......

Paris climate talks: Why it's trouble for the world - and India

COP 21 is about how much carbon space is left and who gets how much of that space The world has used up two-thirds of its carbon space for a 2-degrees-Celsius temperature rise, consumed 35 per......

Ratan Tata joins global leaders for a new initiative

Nearly two months after retiring as the chairman of Tata Group, Ratan Tata is taking up a new role by joining hands with global leaders, including former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and WTO......

Rich-poor divide comes to fore at biodiversity meet

It was a virtual throwback to the rhetoric of the North-South divide. As the delegates at the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity here struggled to arrive at an agreement on how to find......

NBA to file case against developers of BT Brinjal

The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is all set to file the country's firstever bio-piracy criminal case against companies involved in developing BT Brinjal by using its local variety, a top......

Carbon emissions: PM hits out at developed nations

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday hit out at industrialised countries over the issue of making available additional finance and technology to help developing world reduce carbon emissions,......

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Group of scientists seeks President's intervention to withdraw proposed LDAR

The Armed Forces's COVID-19 Challenge

Time has come to say goodbye to single-use plastic: Modi @ UN meet

Will South China Sea verdict make region 'cradle of war'?

Modi and Obama set out to create a model for the world

Paris climate talks: Why it's trouble for the world - and India

Ratan Tata joins global leaders for a new initiative

Rich-poor divide comes to fore at biodiversity meet

NBA to file case against developers of BT Brinjal

Carbon emissions: PM hits out at developed nations

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