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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......

Women's group in N East India gets global funding

The Global Fund for Women, an international organization committed to defending women's rights globally, has awarded a first grant of $12,000 to the North East Network, which works in India's seven......

Krishna special invitee to dinner hosted by Obama

External Affairs Minister S M Krishna will be a special invitee at a dinner reception hosted by United States President Barack Obama in New York on the sidelines of the 65th session of the United......

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,......

Forests will rescue India, says Jairam Ramesh

Before the crucial United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen in December, India is strengthening its argument to avoid any rigorous capping on its carbon emissions. Here,......

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......

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......

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,......

Land degradation affects 20% cultivated areas: UN

Land degradation is on the rise in many parts of the world and is affecting more than 20 per cent of all cultivated areas, a new United Nations report says. The study involving data taken over a......

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

Women's group in N East India gets global funding

Krishna special invitee to dinner hosted by Obama

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

Forests will rescue India, says Jairam Ramesh

Rich-poor divide comes to fore at biodiversity meet

Ratan Tata joins global leaders for a new initiative

NBA to file case against developers of BT Brinjal

Carbon emissions: PM hits out at developed nations

Land degradation affects 20% cultivated areas: UN

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