PM Modi was speaking at the Build Back Better for the World roundtable, an event initiated by US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the COP26 climate summit.
Gates in the past has reinforced his foundation's commitment to supporting India to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on health, nutrition, sanitation and agriculture.
Stating that Small Island Developing States face the biggest threat from climate change, Modi said ISRO will provide them information about cyclones, coral-reef & coast-line monitoring.
Modi was responding to a tweet by European Commission President Leyen where she hailed PM Modi's leadership and called India a 'key partner on fighting the global climate'.
If investment flows from rich nations into booming low-emissions sector, industries that seem hard to decarbonize now will be next to move. India’s path to zero is just beginning.
Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.
At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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