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TopicIce caps

Topic: Ice caps

Arctic sea ice has become thinner, reduced by 52% between 2005-07, finds Nature journal report

A new report by British journal Nature has found that Arctic sea ice underwent an abrupt shift from 'thick deformed ice' to 'thin uniform ice cover'.

Global ice melt accelerating at record rate, finds new study

First study to analyse the total ice melt on Earth shows ice loss of 28 trillion tonnes between the years 1994 and 2017.

Melting ice caps will have extreme geopolitical & security consequences

National security imperatives of the waters are rising as surely as the sea levels around the world because of climate change.

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Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.