'We know our glaciers are melting very rapidly.' Dr R K Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, outlines the implications for India.
More private vehicles, according to R K Pachauri, is not the right way forward. On the contrary, it would take the world farther from solutions to climate change. Tata Motors' rivals, most recently Suzuki Motor Corp chairman O Suzuki, have often wondered aloud how the Rs 1 lakh car would fare on the parameters of safety and environment suitability.
National Productivity Council said on Saturday that the success of road construction activities needs to be replicated in all sectors of the economy to achieve the eight per cent growth target as envisaged in the 10th Five-Year Plan.
Facing flak, TERI's executive vice chairman R K Pachauri on Friday proceeded on leave from two other bodies -- TERI and its governing council, which also appointed former Competition Commission chief Ashok Chawla as the new chairman in an apparent damage control measure.
In her resignation, which she submitted early this week, she slammed the organisation for creating what she describes as a "hostile environment".
Pachauri has also been accused of stalking and criminally intimidating the victim with gesture or act intended to insult her modesty.
On February 13, 2015 an FIR was registered against him and he was granted anticipatory bail in the case on March 21.
The woman says she worked closely with the former TERI chief for four months in 2008
During the hearing on the plea before the high court, the Delhi police had also sought cancellation of Pachauri's liberty claiming he was influencing witnesses and misusing the bail conditions.
In a letter to the officials, the students write, "We would like to make it clear that we are not in a position to accept our degrees from Pachauri at the convocation (to be held on March 7)."
Harvey Weinstein's indictment is important because it sends out the message that a sexual predator can be brought to justice even if the crime occurred years ago, when the victim did not have the courage or the agency to speak out, notes Shuma Raha.
A day after quitting as Chairman of UN's prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, TERI Director General R K Pachauri has been admitted to a city-based hospital.
Buffeted by allegations of sexual harassment, R K Pachauri on Tuesday quit as chairman of United Nation's prestigious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose meeting here he has avoided.
The court noted that investigation in the case was progressing at a "snail's pace
R K Pachauri, who is facing sexual harassment allegations, moved a city court seeking permission to travel abroad to attend a global water summit in Greece from April 26 to 29.
TERI Director-General R K Pachauri, who is facing sexual harassment allegations from a woman employee, was today barred from entering the office premises by a Delhi court which extended interim protection from arrest granted to him till March 27.
Pachauri is scheduled to speak in China from August 22-28.Thereafter, he is scheduled to attend a meeting in Tokyo.
The court allowed Pachauri's application seeking its permission to travel to Kazakhstan, Guyana and Mexico till October 5 to attend various meetings, conferences and a film festival.
The advisory body had not met for the past three years.
The woman who had accused environmentalist R K Pachauri of sexual harassment, on Tuesday tore into TERI, saying the "shameful" decision of appointing him as executive vice-chairman of the green body made her "flesh crawl", and resolved to take the case to a logical conclusion.
The UN made it clear that it will not conduct any inquiry into accusations of sexual harassment against R K Pachauri
TERI Director-General R K Pachauri was on Monday granted interim protection from arrest till February 26 by a Delhi court.
Pachauri has been allowed to go abroad from June 29 to July 9.
Former TERI director R K Pachauri was on Friday questioned for the second time by Delhi Police in connection with the alleged sexual harassment case lodged against him by a woman research analyst.
Environmentalist R K Pachauri, accused of sexual harassment by his former women colleagues in the recent past, has stepped down as a member of the governing council of the TERI.
The project is currently under litigation after environmental concerns were raised against the plan of linking the PalkBay and the Gulf of Mannar by creating a shipping channel through the shallow sea, says Ruchika Chitravanshi.
Justice S P Garg posted the matter for July 16.
Amid outrage over his appointment as TERI's Executive Vice Chairman, R K Pachauri has proceeded on leave on Thursday and will skip TERI University's convocation on March 7 after a group of students refused to receive degrees from him.
Ajay Mathur, currently director general of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, has been appointed as the new DG.
Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kumar Tripathi granted liberty to Pachauri to withdraw his plea and move a fresh application before the metropolitan magistrate having territorial jurisdiction of the case.
Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kumar Tripathi allowed the plea to modify the earlier order restricting his entry into the offices of TERI.
In a world in which men still dominate the institutional landscape, gender-neutrality is as much their responsibility as women's.
Pachauri had proceeded on leave from TERI after sexual harassment charges were levelled against him by a woman employee.
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) led by Nobel laureate R K Pachauri on Wednesday has commissioned a solar micro-grid connection (SMG) in Tanda village of Jagdishpur block (about 80 km from Lucknow) in Rahul Gandhi's Amethi parliamentary constituency.
Pachauri, who is facing sexual harassment allegations from a woman employee, was on Saturday granted anticipatory bail by a Delhi court
Police probe still on; ex-parte stay against sexual harassment panel report and court permission to enter premises help NGO chief
'I am here to terminate climate change once and for all.'
The Aam Aadmi Party's government's policies on water and electricity are well intended but not the best way to achieve the desired goals as the supply of over 600 litre of free water to Delhi residents may end up in a lot of wastage, Directer General of The Energy and Resources Institute R K Pachauri has warned.
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Climate change and US-India collaborations in renewable energy resources will be up for discussion at the US-India energy summit coinciding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington, DC, later this month, reports Aziz Haniffa.
Muzzling NGOs is unbecoming of a democracy. Self-confident democracies encourage, indeed applaud, the involvement of citizens' associations, including NGOs, in social and political decision-making and development planning. Instead, our paranoid government bullies and terrorises them, says Praful Bidwai.
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