Environmental
India’s Purnima Devi Barman among UNEP Champions of the Earth
November 23, 2022
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has named its 2022 Champions of the Earth, with five persons, including a conservationist, an enterprise, an economist, a women’s rights activist, and a wildlife biologist for their transformative action to prevent, halt and reverse ecosystem...
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World’s first mass produced ceramic bowl reveals early culinary habits
November 19, 2022
A new research report published in The Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports tries to unveil the food habits that prevailed in the earliest urban societies of the humankind. The world’s first urban state societies developed in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, about 5500 years...
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AAI’s Hidden Tool:Marketing
October 31, 2017
Privatisation of airports has led to airport authorities all over the word stepping up their game when it comes to marketing, and Airports Authority of India (AAI) is no exception as they have been taking progressive steps in this department. In 1987 when the United Kingdom sold ...
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Paris Climate Agreement
April 21, 2016
As world leaders come together to sign the Paris agreement, an international alliance of frontline and indigenous communities calls it a dangerous distraction. Close to 155 countries are preparing to sign the Paris agreement on Earth Day, April 22, in New York, but an internation...
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Energy mix
March 3, 2016
Facing huge power needs, the Indian government is planning to set up new nuclear power plants and studying new locations, notably in Bihar, Haryana and Punjab, to triple in the next 10 years its nuclear power generation base. A huge market where international companies, notably U...
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Greenpeace report
February 24, 2016
Greenpeace says in its last report that India’s air pollution levels overtook that of China in 2015 for the first time in this century, after studying satellite data from American space agency NASA. The Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) adds that India’s pollution monitorin...
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