-The Times of India NEW DELHI: There is more CERTainty than ever before that earth is warming under "human influence", said a report compiled by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warning that only "substantial and sustained reduction" of greenhouse gas emissions will limit the disaster of climate change. IPCC raised the likelihood of human activities causing global warming from "very likely" in its 2007 report to "extremely likely" -...
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Despite the hiatus, global warming is unequivocal -Nitin Sethi
-The Hindu IPCC report affirms reality of 2o Celsius rise over industrial-age levels The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded on Friday that it is now more CERTain than ever before that human-caused climate change is real, and greenhouse gas emissions are causing changes to the planet that could possibly trigger dangerous consequences by the turn of the century. These conclusions came as part of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) on the...
More »Voter has right to negative voting: SC
-PTI In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court on Friday held that citizens have right to cast negative vote rejecting all candidates contesting polls, a decision which would encourage people not satisfied with contestants to turn up for voting. The apex court directed the Election Commission to provide ‘none of the above options' at the end of the list of candidates in electronic voting machines (EVMs) and ballot papers to allow voters...
More »First decade of 21st century warmest on record: UN -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: The first decade of the 21st century has been found to be the warmest ever with the global average surface temperature for that decade at 14.4°C. In the northern hemisphere which includes majority of Asia and all of Europe, the years 1983-2012 has been found to be the warmest 30-year period of the last 1,400 years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest report has now confirmed...
More »India Rural Development Report 2012/13 launched
-Press Information Bureau The India Rural Development Report 2012/13 was released here by Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Rural Development, Government of India. The Report was prepared by IDFC Foundation in collaboration with network partners, the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), the Institute for Rural Management Anand (IRMA), and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), with contributions from several other researchers, experts and civil society organisations. On...
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