24 Nov, 2024 1:51 PM
Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) The Air Quality Index (AQI) in Kolkata and its adjacent Howrah town deteriorated on Sunday with the initial wintry effect also leaving an impact.
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24 Nov, 2024 12:52 PM
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the 116th episode of his monthly radio program Mann Ki Baat on Sunday, announced that 100 crore trees have been planted under the 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' campaign within just five months.
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24 Nov, 2024 12:23 PM
Chennai, Nov 24 (IANS) The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) has issued an advisory for fishermen to refrain from deep-sea fishing between November 25 and November 28 due to a depression over the central parts of the southern Bay of Bengal.
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24 Nov, 2024 10:20 AM
Baku, Nov 24 (IANS) The presidency of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) announced that it has concluded negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, enabling cross-border carbon trading to support global climate goals.
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24 Nov, 2024 10:05 AM
Seoul, Nov 24 (IANS) South Korea will host the final round of international negotiations for a binding plastic regulation agreement this week, officials said on Sunday, with attention paid to whether countries can reach an agreement amid a sharp division over regulatory approaches.
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24 Nov, 2024 9:51 AM
Baku, Nov 24 (IANS) The voices of the most vulnerable were sidelined, human rights and civil society participation ignored, and accountability swept under the rug, say climate advocates on the conclusion of two-week UN climate change negotiations on Sunday with countries adopting a $300 billion a year global finance target to help poorer nations.
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24 Nov, 2024 8:57 AM
New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) The air quality in the Delhi-NCR remained in the high concerning zone as several areas continued to be in the 'severe' AQI category on Sunday.
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24 Nov, 2024 6:27 AM
Baku, Nov 24 (IANS) Despite objections by developing nations, including India, expressing dissatisfaction with the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) owing to its "paltry size", the COP29 Presidency of Azerbaijan on Sunday announced the agreement of the Baku Finance Goal, a new commitment to channel $1.3 trillion of climate finance to the developing world by 2035 in significant uplift.
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24 Nov, 2024 12:03 AM
Guwahati, Nov 24 (IANS) A mild earthquake, measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale, hit Assam’s mountainous Dima Hasao district on Saturday night, officials said.
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23 Nov, 2024 7:36 PM
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Devender Yadav on Saturday said that the repeated criticism of the AAP government by the Supreme Court for its laxity in combating air pollution was a consequence of former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s corrupt governance over the past 10 years.
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