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Oil, chemical industry lobbyists flood UN talks on cutting plastic pollution

By Valerie Volcovici and Gloria Dickie OTTAWA (Reuters) -Nearly 200 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists plan to join this week's United Nations negotiations on the first global treaty to curb

Bangladesh to reopen schools despite heatwave

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh will reopen schools from next week despite a brutal heatwave sweeping the country that has seen temperatures soar to 43 degrees Celsius (109°F), officials

Emperor penguins suffered mass breeding failures in 2023 amid record low sea ice

By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) - Record low sea ice in late 2023 led to breeding failures in one-fifth of Antarctica's emperor penguin colonies, scientists with the British Antarctic Survey said on

Above-normal rainfall may ease inflation concerns, says Finance Ministry report

Last week, IMD said the country is likely to receive above average monsoon rainfall in 2024, a potential boost for its farm output which heavily depends on summer rains.

China evacuates entire town as record rains, winds lash its south

BEIJING (Reuters) - Relentless rains, hail and winds of near hurricane intensity battered southern China, forcing the evacuation of an entire town of more than 1,700 people in the province of

Oil, chemical industry lobbyists pile in to UN talks to curb plastics

By Valerie Volcovici and Gloria Dickie OTTAWA (Reuters) - Nearly 200 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists plan to join this week's United Nations negotiations on the first global treaty to curb

Biden administration aims to clean up power sector with revamped rules

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday announced it has finalized rules targeting carbon, air and water pollution from power plants that it says could cut

Monsoon forecast bodes well, may ease inflation concerns, India economic report says

(Reuters) - The forecast of an above-normal monsoon in 2024 bodes well for a good harvest and may ease India's inflation concerns, a monthly economic review by the finance ministry said on Thursday.

Insurers’ climate alliance relaunches after member exodus

By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - A global insurance coalition intended to help curb the sector's greenhouse gas emissions has relaunched with a new name and weaker membership requirements in

More than 100 pilot whales stranded in Western Australia, experts say

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Marine wildlife experts were frantically trying to rescue some 140 pilot whales stranded on Thursday in the shallow waters of an estuary south of the state of Western Australia. The

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.