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Plastic ban: Maharashtra notifies categories

Sep 25, 2019 New Delhi:  The Maharashtra government has notified the ban on categories of plastic and thermocol including less than 200 ml drinking water PET bottles, plastic bags for shopping, disposable thermocol cups, plates…

Agriculture

Prices crash as pea smuggled from B’desh, Nepal floods Indian market

Sep 25, 2019 New Delhi: Prohibited pulses such as peas have joined the list of items being smuggled into the country from Nepal and Bangladesh, and these are flooding the Indian market in large quantities.…

Environment

Action on climate needed before time runs out: Guterres

Sep 24, 2019 United Nations:  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the Climate Action Summit in New York, warning that immediate measures were needed to deal with this global problem. “The climate emergency is a race…

Action on climate needed before time runs out: Guterres

Sep 24, 2019 United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the Climate Action Summit in New York, warning that immediate measures were needed to deal with this global problem. “The climate emergency is a race…

Telangana, Andhra CMs agree to link rivers

Sep 23, 2019 Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday decided to interlink Godavari and Krishna rivers with less land acquisition. Both the chief…

Growing gap between climate targets, reality: Report

Sep 23, 2019 New York: World’s leading climate science organizations have joined forces to produce a landmark new report for the UN Climate Action Summit, underlining the glaring and growing gap between agreed targets to…

Environment

UN research shows G20 nations lagging in climate action

Sep 22, 2019 Nairobi, Sep 22 (IANS) G20 nations are collectively not on track to meet their Paris Agreement commitments, but they have huge opportunities to undertake rapid and deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions,…

Environment & Agriculture

World’s biggest coastal cleanup campaign at Puri beach

Sep 21, 2019 Puri:  A mega cleanliness drive under the banner of ‘Mo Beach’ cleaning initiative was organised at Odisha’s Puri beach to mark the International Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday. The Puri administration claimed…

Chandra Bhushan resigns as deputy head of CSE, to launch new environment body

Sep 20, 2019 New Delhi:  Climate change expert Chandra Bhushan has resigned from the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and will soon launch a new organisation to continue his work in the field .…

Environment

India gifts Gandhi Solar Park to power UN with green electricity

Arul Louis Sep 20, 2019 United Nations:  The UN headquarters will be powered with green electricity when the Gandhi Solar Park gifted by India comes online on September 24 symbolising New Delhi’s commitment to fighting…

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