SRINAGAR: The agitation in Ladakh UT intensified on Thursday after the Leh Apex Body and climate activist, Sonam Wangchuk announced a march to the border on April 7.

KANPUR: The IIT Kanpur is inviting applications for new batches of its eMasters Degree programs in Climate Finance, Business Finance, Fintech, and Quantitative Finance.

Ahmedabad: The Adani Green Energy Gallery, inaugurated at the Science Museum in London, UK on Tuesday aims to explore options that will help generate energy sustainably, decarbonise and fight climate change.

NEW DELHI: The Indian startups continued to raise funds at a normal pace, and last week, 22 startups secured over $447 million in the country.

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, gave its approval for the signing of three MoUs between India and Bhutan, covering the supply of petroleum products, energy efficiency, and cooperation in food safety measures.

Canberra: More Australians believe the nation should aim to become an independent middle power than primarily an ally of the US, a poll has found.

CHANDIGARH: Advocating to promote the 'living bridge' links between India and the UK and in particular to highlight women's voices and roles, British Deputy High Commissioner Caroline Rowett says she meets inspiring women and girls all the time as she travels in this region.

NEW DELHI: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to an old X thread of a brief conversation he had with Elon Musk after the tech billionaire sued the ChatGPT maker, alleging that the company breached their original contractual agreements around AI.

NEW DELHI: The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Saturday announced a new programme of $452 million to support Assam to improve connectivity for over 1.8 million people living in rural areas, especially during extreme weather.

Agartala: Trade between bordering Tripura and Bangladesh increased to a whooping over 94.04 per cent in five years, Tripura Finance Minister Pranajit Singha Roy said on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Indian innovations across the spectrum are fantastic and are the key to solving problems in the field of health, agriculture, gender and climate, Microsoft Co-founder and philanthropist, Bill Gates, said in the national Capital on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav on Thursday released a report which said that the country's leopard population has risen to 13,874 (Range: 12,616 – 15,132) .

NEW DELHI: Logistics service provider Shadowfax on Tuesday announced the closing of its Series E funding round, securing $100 million in investments.

CHENNAI: Credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings on Monday said semiconductor chip makers must focus on managing their water resources as water security will be an important factor in their credit profiles.

NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of 2023 being the warmest year on record, with resultant heatwaves, storms and droughts causing havoc, heads of state and more than 5,000 representatives and leaders will gather in Nairobi in Kenya from Monday for the five-day sixth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) to strengthen multilateral effort to address the planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar continued to defend India's decision to buy Russian oil, saying Moscow has never hurt New Delhi's interests and both nations have always had a stable and friendly relationship.

United Nations: India has decried the primacy of the concept of open markets in foodgrains amid warnings from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of a looming “hellscape of hunger” for the world’s poorest.

NEW DELHI: A Visionary Step in Environmental Conservation and Public Safety Josler Hydrocarbons India Pvt Ltd, a prominent gas leak detection firm based in Ahmedabad, has played a vital role in holistically enabling its US based technological partner Heath to sign a groundbreaking Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MNGL.

MUMBAI: 'Mr Bean' actor Rowan Atkinson has been blamed for the slump in the sale of electric cars in the UK. The actor was name checked in the House of Lords, upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, recently during its environment and climate change committee meeting.

CHENNAI: South Korean confectionery major Lotte Wellfood will be investing about Rs 200 crore in Haryana to make Lotte Pepero for the global market.

KANPUR: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Lucknow Cantonment Board to serve as the knowledge partner in their joint mission to achieve a waste-free and carbon-neutral campus, aiming to create a scalable model in line with India’s vision of achieving net zero emissions by 2070.

NEW YORK: MacKenzie Scott continues to sell billions of dollars in Amazon stock, the media reported.

MUMBAI: The pilot episode of the business reality show ‘Shark Tank India’ season three saw the innovative pitches by Adil Qadri’s ‘attar’ business, sustainable ‘Honest Home Company’, and skincare brand ‘Conscious Chemist’.

ROME: Italy approved a law to introduce penalties up to 60,000 euros ($65,000) on those who damage artworks and historical monuments.

New York: Indian-American community leader Tara Sreekrishnan has announced that she is running for California State Assembly from District 26 as a Democrat.

Dhaka: During a meeting with Bangladesh's newly-elected Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud, Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma said a new chapter of bilateral relations between the two neighbouring nations has opened, and would work "more closely" to take the ties forward.

Thiruvananthapuram: NABARD has projected a Credit Potential of Rs 2.37 lakh crore under priority sector to be financed by all banks in Kerala for the 2024-25 financial year.

Canberra: Record-high global temperatures in 2023 exacerbated droughts, floods and wildfires, a, international study led by Australian National University (ANU) researchers revealed on Thursday.