Chennai, Aug 29 (IANS) The erratic monsoon, which is affecting sowing, and global developments will keep the food inflation at elevated levels and would also hit the demand in rural India owing to lower income and inflation, said CARE Ratings in a report.
Nagpur, Aug 29 (IANS) A big cat family comprising a mother leopard and her two cubs were electrocuted by live wires laid to kill wild boars in the forests of Maharashtra's Gondia district, officials said here on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Aug 29 (IANS) As global pollution edged upward in 2021, so did its burden on human health, new data from the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) said on Tuesday.
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) Decarbonisation is gaining currency though the benefits of this will be available only decades later, so we have to learn to survive and do well in the hot new world, ITC Ltd Chairman and Managing Director Sanjiv Puri said on Sunday.
Shimla, Aug 27 (IANS) Horrifying visuals showing buildings and bridges collapsing like pack of cards in the blink of an eye in Himachal Pradesh with torrential rains have battered the hilly state, causing 376 deaths since the onset of the monsoons, locals believe -- nature doesn't kill, human-induced activities do.
Bengaluru, Aug 26 (IANS) Even as major political parties in Karnataka are vying with each other to get political mileage out of the present Cauvery dispute following the failure of Monsoon rains ahead of Lok Sabha elections, the issue is not likely to affect the electoral politics of the state, according to experts.
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) On August 22, the Supreme Court agreed to constitute a bench to hear the age-old inter-state dispute over sharing the water of the river Cauvery after Tamil Nadu approached it to direct Karnataka to release 24,000 cusecs from the river every day for its crops.
Agra, Aug 25 (IANS) The month of August this year has been particularly good for the smaller rivers in the Yamuna basin of the Agra region. The recent flood and copious rains in the hills have rejuvenated the river system that had been reduced to vast stretches of wasteland in past years.
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) Amazon India on Wednesday introduced a shelf monitoring solution -- a Machine Learning (ML) powered farm-to-fridge quality assurance system for fresh produce.
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) In 2022, G20 members spent $1.4 trillion to support fossil fuels and they could raise an additional $1 trillion per year by establishing a carbon tax floor of $25-50/tCO2e.
