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PM Modi said 10 special museums are being built to immortalise contribution of the tribal community New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said his government has prioritised preserving the country’s heritage, even as he lamented that enough efforts were not made in this direction post Independence. Addressing a gathering…
Merely 27% Indian organisations feel adequately equipped to meet their ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) strategy and compliance requirements and only 15% believe their suppliers to be prepared to comply with the organisations’ ESG requirements, reveals Deloitte India’s ESG preparedness survey, released today.These results underscore the challenges ahead for Indian…
Public-private collaboration and sustainable financing through biodiversity and carbon markets can help improve the situation for South Africa’s vast network of provincial nature reserves that are increasingly failing, a recent study has found. Municipal and provincial reserves (PRs) cover more than 3 million hectares of land across nearly 430 protected…
Mumbai policeman quenches his thirst (Sanjay Hadkar/BCCL Mumbai) Remember that wee old 1.5°C limit we were advised to deathly avoid? Remember when it felt like a distant goal, with plenty of time to fix things? Yeah, it’s already underway. If this feels like a procrastinator’s worst nightmare, it really is.…
KODERMA: The Hazaribag wildlife forest division conducted raids from Tuesday midnight till 10am the next day at Chitarpur wildlife sanctuary area under Koderma police station limits and arrested five miscreants engaged in the illegal mining of mica. Six earth movers and eight dumpers were seized from the spot, an officer…
Are you someone who loves to party and drinks a lot? Or have you recently found yourself relying on alcohol to cope with stress and anxiety? Regardless of the reason, excessive alcohol consumption can take a serious toll on your body and mind. If you’re looking to detox from drinking,…
The social activist discusses several critical issues concerning the disaster from the survivors’ perspective. The highly toxic methyl isocyanate gas leak from the Union Carbide Corporation’s (UCC) pesticide plant in Bhopal injured over half a million people and has killed over 25,000 since 1984. The world’s worst industrial disaster is…
May 17 – This could be a year of singular importance in the history of international accounting. A new directive from Brussels provides a basis on which natural capital funding undertaken by corporations could ultimately be reflected as an asset on balance sheets. Such ecosystem conservation funding is urgently needed,…
Some officials in Nepal are calling for mimicking a plan by Sri Lanka, now suspended, to export large numbers of rhesus macaques. The monkeys are seen as pests by farmers whose crops they eat, and exporting them would address this problem while also generating foreign revenue, proponents say. However, a…
Can you imagine what bizarre things customs agents seize at the airports? Well, whatever you can think of, we assume that you can never imagine snakes. You will be intrigued to know that this has actually happened where customs agents have seized around 22 snakes of various species and a…
