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Heat, Air Quality & Insurance Costs: How climate change is affecting our homes – and our health
Ang Li, Melbourne School of Population and Global This year, ten...
SC seeks response of Centre, DGCA on PIL seeking independent probe into June 12 AI crash
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the NGO ‘Safety Matters...
Helicopter with 5 people on board crashes in the mountains northwest of Nepal’s capital
The four passengers are Chinese nationals, and the pilot is a Nepali man, police said. No further details were immediately available KATHMANDU: A helicopter crashed in a forest outside Nepal's capital Kathmandu shortly after takeoff on Wednesday, killing all five...
Global selloff: Sensex and Nifty nosedive, Investors’ wealth eroded by Rs 17.11 lakh crore
Global markets were in the deep red on Monday as the US economic slowdown weighed heavily on the financial markets Mumbai: Equity market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty crashed over 3 per cent each on Monday in line with extremely weak trends in global markets amid...
Concretisation of roadsides in Ghaziabad NGT issues notices to MoEF others
The NGT was hearing a plea claiming "vast-scale, mindless and indiscriminate concretisation or paving, which was the biggest cause of water-logging, urban flooding and loss of biodiversity in cities and towns." New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal has sought a reply...
Missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels hits container ship in first attack in 2 weeks
The killing of Haniyeh in Tehran has sparked concerns of a new escalation in the Israel-Hamas war. Already, the U.S. military says it will move a fighter jet squadron to the Middle East and keep an aircraft carrier in the region DUBAI, United Arab Emirates : A missile...
World’s richest lose $134 billion in stock slump, led by Amazon’s Bezos
Jeff Bezos, founder,Amazon Investors have also become jittery over fears that this year’s AI-fueled gains are overdone or the market is too concentrated Jeff Bezos’s net worth shrank by $15.2 billion Friday, leading a wide-ranging slump that erased $134 billion from...
How missed warnings, ‘over-tourism’ aggravated deadly India landslides
Local authorities are now counting the cost of the disaster and questioning whether the rapid development of a tourism industry was to blame for the tragedy. Weather-related disasters are not unusual in India, but the landslides in Kerala state this week were the...
TikTok’s practices endangered children’s safety, US alleges in lawsuit
"TikTok knowingly and repeatedly violated kids' privacy, threatening the safety of millions of children across the country," said Lina Khan, the head of the Federal Trade Commission, which joined the Justice Department in suing the short video behemoth. New York: The...
Hong Kong slaps AIA with record fine for anti-laundering lapses
The lapses resulted in some customers who were “politically exposed persons” failing to be picked up during the screening process. That led to delays in identifying their source of money and wealth, it added. However, no policies were sold to clients who should not...
Centre issues fresh ESA draft for Western Ghats following Kerala disaster
The draft notification suggests a complete ban on mining, quarrying, and sand mining, with existing mines to be phased out within five years ”from the date of issue of the final notification or on the expiry of the existing mining lease, whichever is earlier”.It also...
Delta CEO says airline is facing $500 million in costs from global tech outage
Speaking on CNBC, Bastian said Wednesday that the monetary amount represents lost revenue as well as “the tens of millions of dollars per day in compensation and hotels” for the five-day period. Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says the airline is facing $500 million in...