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Finmin invites suggestions on draft climate finance taxonomy
India's climate finance taxonomy will facilitate greater resource...
India reserves right to retaliate if UK’s proposed carbon tax hits exports: Official
According to economic think tank GTRI, India's exports worth $775...
Combined impact of climate change, population growth poses serious threat to India’s water security: Experts
''Rising temperatures accelerate evaporation rates, depleting surface water and groundwater reserves. Altered precipitation patterns lead to unpredictable monsoons, causing floods in some areas and droughts in others. These extreme events reduce water availability,...
Japan’s largest insurer Tokio Marine joins defectors from Gfanz climate group
A spokesperson said Tokio Marine will continue to consider measures to realize a decarbonized society such as the use of renewable energy and emphasized it will keep a close eye on social and environmental causes Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest insurer by...
Will meet FM Sitharaman to claim refund of Rs 9242.60 cr deposited in NPS: HP CM Sukhu
Sukhvinder Sukhu,Chief Minister,Himachal Pradesh Sukhu also assured that the benefits of the old pension scheme would be extended to board-corporation employees, and corporations that have been excluded from this scheme would be included in due course Dharamshala:...
India to push back against ‘agenda-driven’ global ranking firms – Modi advisor
Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of Modi's Economic Advisory Council Sanjeev Sanyal,member of PM's Economic Advisory Council, said the ratings also get hard-wired into decision-making through environmental, social and governance (ESG) norms and sovereign ratings. Multilateral...
Census unlikely before Lok Sabha polls; citizens to be asked about smartphones, Internet, cereals
The questions in the Census include whether a family has a telephone line, Internet connection, mobile or smartphone, bicycle, scooter or motorcycle or moped, whether it owns a car, jeep or a van The citizens will also be asked what cereal they consume in the...
Centre told to inform outcome of consultations of draft rules to regulate e-pharmacies
Petitioner association South Chemists and Distributors Association, which has challenged the ministry’s August 2018 notification, said the draft rules are being pushed through in serious violation of the law, ignoring the health hazards caused due to sale of medicines...
Data protection bill to drive deep behavioural changes for platforms exploiting data: Chandrasekhar
''Those who have done it (misused data), tracked consumers, used cookies they certainly will have to go though deep behavioural change… Those who are already doing it right, have nothing to fear. But those who have, in a sense, lived off this model of exploitation...
Congress will ‘compel’ Centre to implement old pension scheme in entire country Rajasthan CM Gehlot
On April 6, the Union Finance Ministry set up a committee under Finance Secretary T V Somanathan to review the pension system for government employees. The committee would suggest whether in the light of the existing framework and structure of the National Pension...
Rights of consumers to safe internet can never be compromised: Min Chandrasekhar on accountability of Big Tech
Rajeev Chandrasekhar,Minister of Information Technology ''…it is a commitment that we have to the people of India…1.2 billion Indians who are going to use the Indian internet, that we will keep the internet open for them. We will deliver safety and trust on the...
Non-communicable diseases bigger issue than Covid pandemic: Apollo JMD
"Non-communicable disease is a larger pandemic than Covid. We must protect against cancer, cardiovascular, nephro, neuro problems," Apollo Hospitals Joint Managing Director Sangita Reddynoted Spread of non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart...