Source- ndtv.com The Supreme Court today approved the Centre’s draft witness protection scheme and asked all the states to implement it till Parliament comes out with a legislation. A bench headed by Justice AK Sikri said that they have made some changes in the scheme. The issue of witness protection scheme had cropped up earlier when
Source- ndtv.com India and China could gain massive health benefits by tackling climate change, the WHO said on Wednesday. For India, the gains could be $3.28-8.4 trillion. Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone. The latest
Source- greencarreports.com Sit down before you read this. Good. With all the dire warnings about climate-change coming from the most recent studies—from the Fourth National Climate Assessment released on Black Friday to an October report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which showed that catastrophic effects could hit by 2040—the latest news is even
Source- ndtv.com As black smoke pours out of an ancient scooter that’s been pulled over, a khaki-clad New Delhi transport official issues a fine to its rider: 100 rupees, about $1.42. It’s hardly Hollywood stuff, but this is progress in a city of 20 million on the front lines of India’s battle against the world’s worst
Source- businesstoday.in As Switzerland continues to shed its image as a safe haven for alleged black money, the Alpine nation has agreed to share with Indian authorities the details about two companies and three individuals who are facing multiple probes back in India. One of the two Indian companies used to be a publicly-listed entity and
Source- ndtv.com India’s first locomotive-less train or Train 18 on Sunday crossed the 180 kmph speed limit during a test run, a top official said in Chennai. In the process, the Rs. 100 crore indigenously designed train has become the country’s fastest, “Train 18 breached the 180 kmph speed limit in the Kota-Sawai Madhopur section. The major trials are
Source- express.co.uk Since the end of World War II, Japan’s military has functioned as a self-defence unit, with the US keeping eye on the once militarised nation following its surrender at the end of conflict on September 2, 1945. But now a Chinese news agency has reportedly responded to Tokyo’s decision to modify an aircraft carrier
Source- ndtv.com India’s economy slowed to 7.1 per cent in the July-September quarter of the year from 8.2 per cent in the previous quarter on the back of a sharp drop in manufacturing, agriculture and mining activities, government data showed on Friday. GDP or gross domestic product has shown the lowest growth in three years but India
Source- space.com An Indian rocket successfully lofted 31 satellites to Earth orbit late Wednesday night (Nov. 28), just a few days before the scheduled liftoff of a SpaceX booster that’s even more jam-packed. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, on India’s southeast coast, at 11:27 p.m. EST (0427 GMT and 0957 local
Source- downtoearth.org.in We may be in the United Nations Decade of Nutrition but every country is affected by malnutrition, highlights the Global Nutrition Report 2018 released Thursday. About a third of the world’s children suffer some form of malnutrition. According to the report, we have never been better equipped to fight malnutrition, yet the current burden is “unacceptably
