Environment
Climate change near `point of no return’, warns UN chief
02 Dec 2019
Global talks tasked with neutralising the threat of global warming are still discussing procedures and goals while the picture of the world’s climate-led future is too close for comfort, warns United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
No end in sight for Delhi’s pollution crisis
04 Nov 2019
IPCC report warns India of dangers of extreme oceanic conditions
26 Sep 2019
Sea level has risen globally by around 15 cm during the 20th century and, rising at 3.6 mm per year, it could rise by around 30-60 cm by 2100 even if greenhouse gas emissions are sharply reduced and global warming is limited to well below 2°C, but by around 60-110 cm if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase strongly
Nuclear energy too expensive, too slow to battle climate change: report
24 Sep 2019
Floods are impacted by a changing climate
30 Aug 2019
A large international research project led by the Vienna University of Technology has demonstrated, for the first time on such a scale, that climate change is altering the magnitude of flood events
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation