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Construction dust behind Mumbai’s deteriorating AQI? BMC’s 7-member panel to find ways to check air pollution

Based on the committee's report, to be submitted within 7 days, standard operating procedure for dust control will be finalised and implemented in the city from 1 April.

Record-strength cyclone Freddy pounds Mozambique after making second landfall

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Cyclone Freddy battered central Mozambique on Sunday after making landfall for a second time in a month and breaking records for duration and strength of tropical storms in

Record-breaking Queensland flood peak predicted for Sunday: forecaster

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A record-breaking flood in Australia's Queensland state was forecast to peak on Sunday, after almost 100 residents of an outback town were moved to higher ground. The flood,

Cyclone Freddy pummels Mozambique for a second time, killing one

MAPUTO (Reuters) -Cyclone Freddy pummeled Mozambique on Saturday, killing one person, ripping roofs off houses and triggering a lockdown in one port town, a resident and local media said, two weeks

High winds pummel Mozambique, killing one, as cyclone Freddy nears

MAPUTO (Reuters) -High winds from Cyclone Freddy pummeled Mozambique on Saturday, killing one person, ripping roofs off houses and triggering a lockdown in one port town, a resident and local media

Floods and high winds hit Mozambique as record-breaking cyclone Freddy nears

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Cyclone Freddy was settling off the coast of Mozambique on Saturday, bringing flooding and high winds to Quelimane two weeks after killing at least 27 people in southern Africa when

High Seas Treaty not about putting nature in a bell jar. It’s a bid to save oceans

National governments still need to formally adopt and ratify the treaty but as conference President Rena Lee said, "the ship has reached the shore."

Growing problem? Colombia set to translocate late drug lord Pablo Escobar’s hippos to India, Mexico

Once required permits are granted, the Colombian government will translocate 70 of the animals — 60 to a rehabilitation centre in Gujarat, and 10 to a sanctuary in Mexico.

California copes with heavy rain, flooding in latest ‘atmospheric river’ storm

By Steve Gorman and Brendan O'Brien LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Emergency officials in several California counties spent Friday patrolling levies and swollen rivers as an "atmospheric river" storm drenched

How ICAR’s new wheat variety can beat India’s brutal heatwaves in face of climate crisis

The new wheat variety, HD 3385, has been developed by ICAR's Indian Institute of Rice Research to not only make the crop tolerate heat stress, but also to increase its yield.

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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.