climate change

‘Gandhi would have liked Indians to focus on tackling issue of climate change’

12:47 pm October 3, 2019

Washington: Mahatma Gandhi would have liked Indians to focus on the issue of climate change, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, stressing that the fight against this global challenge is much larger than just renewable energy and involves a virtual overhaul of the lifestyle. In his remarks at an event to mark the 150th […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Terrorism among most flagrant threats to international peace, security: Muraleedharan

5:26 pm September 27, 2019

New York: India has called for implementing “without exceptions or double standards” all existing international laws to combat terrorists and their enablers, saying terrorism is among the most flagrant threats to international peace and security. In his address at the Non Aligned the Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting on the sidelines of 74th UN General Assembly, […]

Trump 'would have loved' to have met Greta Thunberg at Davos

Trump slammed for trolling Greta Thunberg climate speech

1:54 pm September 24, 2019

New York: US President Donald Trump stirred up fresh outrage on social media Monday with a tweet mocking an impassioned speech made by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg at the UN climate summit in New York. Her voice shaking with emotion in an address that was the defining moment of the summit, Thunberg accused world leaders […]

Swiss hold high-altitude wake for lost glacier

10:15 pm September 22, 2019

Mels: Dozens of people dressed in black went on a “funeral march” up a steep Swiss mountainside on Sunday to mark the disappearance of an Alpine glacier amid growing global alarm over climate change. Around 250 people including children joined the solemn two-hour climb up the side of Pizol mountain in northeastern Switzerland to the […]

Youth leaders at UN demand bold climate change action

1:01 am September 22, 2019

UNITED NATIONS: Fresh off the climate strike that took hundreds of thousands of young people out of classrooms and into the streets globally, youth leaders gathered at the United Nations Saturday to demand radical moves to fight climate change. “We showed that we are united and that we, young people, are unstoppable,” Swedish 16-year-old activist […]