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A million homes, businesses in Texas still without power after Hurricane Beryl

By Arathy Somasekhar and Curtis Williams HOUSTON (Reuters) -About a million homes and businesses in Texas remained without power on Friday, five days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall with fierce

Nearly a million in Texas still without power after Hurricane Beryl

By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) - About a million homes and businesses in Texas remained without power on Friday, five days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall, with fierce winds and rain that

Earthquake of magnitude 5.7 strikes near Peru coast, GFZ says

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck near the coast of Peru on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said (

Factbox-In Texas, over 1 million customers still without power after Hurricane Beryl

(Reuters) - More than 1 million homes and businesses in Texas were still without power early on Friday, after Hurricane Beryl slammed through the region, according to data from PowerOutage.us. The

Natural disasters cost China $13 billion in January-June

BEIJING (Reuters) -China suffered direct economic loss worth 93.16 billion yuan ($12.83 billion) in the first half of this year due to natural disasters, the government said on Friday. This is the

Natural disasters in China caused $13 billion economic loss in January-June

BEIJING (Reuters) - Natural disasters in China resulted in 93.16 billion yuan ($12.83 billion) worth of direct economic loss in the first half of this year, the government said on Friday, as the

SC set to hear contempt case against DDA, here’s a look at curious cases of ‘missing trees’ in Delhi

ThePrint recaps some other large government projects in Delhi that have come under the scanner for allegedly failing to comply with rules & regulations concerning felling of trees.

US sued over ‘failure to examine harms’ from delayed offshore oil decommissioning

By Georgina McCartney (Reuters) - An environmental group on Thursday sued the U.S. government over its approach to examining the harm caused by ageing offshore oil and gas infrastructure, citing the

About 1 million in Texas without power, Freeport LNG to restart after Beryl

By Arathy Somasekhar, Curtis Williams and Georgina McCartney HOUSTON/FREEPORT (Reuters) -About 1 million homes and businesses in Texas remained without power on Thursday, four days after Hurricane

Energy companies win dismissal of Baltimore’s climate change case

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A Maryland judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by the city of Baltimore seeking to hold energy giants such as Exxon Mobil, BP and Chevron responsible for climate change,

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University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.