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Govt to hold pre-emption right over oil, gas in national emergency: Draft rules
A pre-emption right (or preemptive right) is the legal right of a...
Operation Sindoor: Trump announces a full and immediate ceasefire between India and Pakistan
Trump said: “After a long night of talks mediated by the United...
Chubb receives regulatory approval to increase its Huatai stake to 83.2%
"China is currently the second largest insurance market after the United States. With an aging and more affluent society comes the growing demands for insurance and asset management products and services. We take a long-term view, and I am confident Huatai will grow...
EXPLAINER-COP27: What is ‘Loss and Damage’ funding, and who should pay?
Vulnerable countries and campaigners have argued that rich countries that caused the bulk of climate change with their historical greenhouse gas emissions should pay. The United States and European Union have previously resisted the argument, fearing spiralling...
Even govt will be held accountable for data breach, says govt source
The source said that there has been frivolous applications under the Right to Information Act which overburden government departments and therefore the government-notified entity has been exempted from RTI clause New Delhi; The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill...
Research: Potential threat to heart health from extreme weather
Study author Professor Stefan Agewall of the University of Oslo, Norway said: "The relationships between cold temperatures and deaths were more pronounced in men and people living in neighbourhoods with a low socioeconomic status. The links between cold and new-onset...
Extreme weather events to rise manifold in India due to climate change: IIT-G study
''The fraction of the total population and urban area exposed to sequential extremes will increase rapidly if the global mean temperature rises above 1.5 degrees Celsius from the pre-industrial level,'' Vimal Mishra, Professor, Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences,...
Big Pharma may have to reveal government deals in WHO’s draft pandemic rules
The aim of the pact, commonly known as the pandemic treaty, is to prevent the next global health crisis from being as devastating as COVID-19 and improving the global response that left many of the world's poorest countries behind The draft recognises the importance...
Punjab to implement Old Pension Scheme, state cabinet okays notification
State government contribution towards the pension corpus will be Rs 1,000 crore per annum initially and will gradually increase in future. In addition to this, the current accumulated corpus with NPS is Rs 16,746 crore for which the state government will request...
Asian businesses continues with hybrid working
Attitudes vary across the region. Singapore, Australia and New Zealand are most likely to embrace flexible working. China, Japan and India are the least receptive to it. The number of Asian businesses expecting employees to spend their entire working life operating...
UNDP launches Crisis Academy to prepare new generation of crisis leaders
The virtual inauguration highlighted an innovative learning experience, where participants played arcade games to learn about Crisis Academy's six digital campuses namely SURGE Crisis response, Stabilization, Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, Community...
SC refuses to entertain pleas on two-child norm for controlling population
The plea said the high court failed to appreciate that the right to clean air, right to drinking water, right to health, right to peaceful sleep, right to shelter, right to livelihood and right to education guaranteed under Articles 21 and 21A of the Constitution...