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Have Climate Summits Lost The Mojo?

How the UN's flagship climate summit lost its direction and what's at stake. IMAGE: An aerial view of an area submerged in water amid heavy rainfall caused by cyclone Montha in Warangal, October......

'India should not wait for the clock to act'

'Keeping the global temperature below not just 1.5 degree Celsius, even 2 degree Celsius is beyond our reach now. Both are impossible.' IMAGE: A woman uses her bag to protect herself from the sun......

COP21: Draft climate pact aims well below 2C limit; India backs text

The climate conference on Saturday came out with an ambitious final draft that will limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius and commit USD 100 billion a year from 2020 to help......

British Indian ex-minister Alok Sharma knighted; 30 more PIOs to be honoured

Alok Sharma, an Indian-origin former UK minister, has been knighted for his contribution to combatting climate change through his leadership at the COP26 summit by King Charles III in his first New......

Biden signs executive actions on COVID, climate change

Hours after he was sworn in, US President Joe Biden signed a raft of executive orders to launch his administration on Wednesday, including a decision to rejoin the Paris climate accord. IMAGE: US......

Renewable energy: Investments may cross $15 bn in 2022

After witnessing cloudy skies this year, the country's renewable energy sector is expected to boom with a likely investment of over $15 billion in 2022 as the government focuses on electric......

Adani now keen to produce world's cheapest hydrogen

Billionaire Gautam Adani on Thursday said his logistics-to-energy conglomerate will invest $70 billion over the next decade to become the world's largest renewable energy company and produce......

Paris deal frames climate ambition in 'lens of equity': India

Activists from the NGO AVAAZ dress as Star Wars characters at a demonstration in Le Bourget. Photograph: Jacky Naegelen / Reuters The Paris climate change agreement is a victory for climate......

Adani wins world's largest solar project; to invest Rs 45,000 cr

With this contract, Adani Green now has a portfolio of 15 GW of renewable power generating assets. Billionaire Gautam Adani's renewable energy firm Adani Green Energy on Tuesday said it has won......

Germany offers India $2.25 billion for solar, clean energy

India and Germany pledged on Monday to revive efforts to reach an Indo-European free trade pact after talks fell apart this year, and struck deals to promote clean energy and make it easier to do......

Did Modi Inspire This Grammy Win?

'Now, no one can stop me from making music till the day I die.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Ricky Kej/Instagram With two Grammys in the Best New Age Album category -- for Winds of Samsara in 2015......

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World Test Championship 2023

India held the top position in the ICC Men's Test Team Rankings while Australia secured the...

Manipur's Tragedy

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Sri Lanka's Tour of India 2023

Complete Coverage of Indian cricket team's encounter with Sri Lanka during 3rd Jan - 15th Jan 2023.

GUJARAT, HIMACHAL GO TO POLLS

The Bharatiya Janata Party was on Thursday poised for a landslide victory in Gujarat to retain...
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