Month: November 2019

World’s worst air: India’s pollution crisis in perspective

Wildfires have raged across California for about a month and air problems persist in China, but no other place on Earth is battling the scale and severity of the pollution that chokes large swathes of north India. (Click tmsnrt.rs/34BzfaO for an animated world map showing the amount of PM 2.5 […]

Ayodhya verdict: Restrictions imposed in entire J-K

Srinagar/Jammu, Nov 9: Restrictions were imposed in entire Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday as a precautionary measure in the wake of the Supreme Court judgment in the Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case, officials said. Restrictions under section 144 of the CrPC came into force in the newly-created union […]

Supreme Court to rule on Hindu-Muslim dispute over Ayodhya site

NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court is due to rule on Saturday on the ownership of a centuries-old religious site claimed by both majority Hindus and Muslims, a dispute that has cast a shadow of suspicion over the two communities for decades. Thousands of paramilitary force members and […]

Finance Ministry responds to Moody’s change in outlook

open view news desk Government of India has noted that the Moody’s Investors Service has today changed the outlook on the Government of India’s ratings to negative from stable while keeping the foreign-currency and local-currency long-term issuer ratings unchanged at Baa2.  However, India continues to be among the fastest […]

Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs briefs Cabinet Secretary on Onion Prices and availability across the country; Takes several key decisions to improve availability and ease the pressure on prices

open view news desk The Department of Consumer Affairs is constantly and closely monitoring the availability and prices of Onions across the country. The Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs in a high level meeting briefed the Cabinet Secretary about the current situation of availability and prices of Onions […]

Very Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘Bulbul’

open view news desk The Very Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘Bulbul’ (pronounced as Bulbul) over westcentral & adjoining eastcentral Bay of Bengal moved northwards with a speed of 17 kmph during past 06 hours, and lay centred at 1730 hours IST of today, the 08th November, 2019, over north-west […]

Mothers-to-be fear for their unborn in smog-choked Delhi

Heavily pregnant Rachel Gokavi spends most days shut away in her New Delhi home, desperate to shield her unborn child from the toxic air blamed for soaring miscarriage rates and infant deaths. At a recent pre-natal class in the Indian capital, Gokavi and other expectant mothers shared their […]

‘Uncharted territory’ as bushfires rage across Australia’s east

Australian firefighters warned they were in “uncharted territory” as they struggled to contain more than a dozen out-of-control bushfires across the east of the country on Friday. Around a hundred blazes pockmarked the New South Wales and Queensland countryside, around 17 of them remained dangerous and uncontained late […]

Pompeo warns against China, Russia on eve of Berlin Wall anniversary

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a stark warning against China and Russia on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, urging Western allies to defend hard-won freedoms. Stressing that “we can never take … things for granted”, he said the […]

Brazil braces for release of ex-president Lula

Lawyers for Brazilian leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday filed a request for his release from prison following a Supreme Court ruling that threatens to deepen political divisions. Dozens of supporters outside the federal police headquarters in the southern city of Curitiba where Lula has […]

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