Dr. Seema Javed Bangladesh faces worsening extreme heat, fuelled by climate change. The country is suffering economic and social setbacks, highlighting further concerns as climate change intensifies,leaving a trail of record-breaking temperatures. They are significantly higher than the country’s average monthly maximum temperature of 30-33°C. As a result of this …
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U.S. Embassy Hosts Special Screening of Documentary “Bogus Phone Operators”
New Delhi –– The U.S. Embassy organized the special screening of a documentary film Bogus Phone Operators, an investigative crime series at the American Center in New Delhi. During the eye-opening documentary “Bogus Phone Operators,” the audience witnessed how U.S. and Indian authorities teamed up to unravel a multi-million-dollar scam …
Read More »We recognise the rights of communities over commons : Sandeep Chachra
Sandeep Chachra is a social anthropologist and a human rights and justice defender. With over three decades of experience in social development, he is currently the Executive Director of ActionAid Association in India. Sandeep is the Managing Editor of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, a founding member of Global …
Read More »Fossil Fuel Lobby Misleads Public
A new report unmasks the deceptive social media campaigns Dr.Seema Javed framing carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a “silver bullet” solution to climate change. A groundbreaking analysis from Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD), has exposed a pervasive and calculated campaigns on social media by fossil fuel interests to manipulate …
Read More »Asia leads global race in renewables: Zero Carbon Analytics
Dr Seema Javed Renewable energy has grown exponentially over the past two decades thanks to government policy and falling prices. Today, building new solar and onshore wind power on average costs around 40% less than coal or gas power. These cost declines have helped renewables reach a tipping point, meaning …
Read More »Climate inaction is costing lives and livelihoods
Dr. Seema Javed The latest Lancet Countdown report underscores the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms. Climate inaction is costing lives and livelihoods today, with new global projections revealing the grave and mounting threat to health of further delayed action on climate change. But bold …
Read More »NIA CONFISCATES CANADA-BASED KHALISTANI TERRORIST PANNU’S PROPERTIES IN AMRTISAR & CHANDIGARH
BANNED SFJ’S LEADER ON NIA’S RADAR SINCE 2019, DECLARED PO IN NOV 2022, ALSO HAS NBWs AGAINST HIM Jubilee Special Desk New Delhi.Tightening its noose around Canada-based ‘designated individual terrorist’ Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday confiscated the house and land of the self-styled General Counsel …
Read More »Climate change increased temperatures between June and August 2023
Attribution analysis of temperatures in 180 countries finds the hottest northern hemisphere summer in recorded history would have been almost impossible without the influence of carbon pollution . Not one of 180 countries and 22 territories in a Climate Central attribution analysis of global temperatures escaped the influence of climate …
Read More »India & China are emerging as gamechanger of Green Industrial Era
With a large share of countries looking into transforming their economies to reach net-zero emissions or sustainable development in line with the Paris Agreement, the global demand for zero-carbon technologies is rapidly growing. A new report by Strategic Perspectives compares the performance and provides a snapshot of the global race …
Read More »PM ’s visit takes India-US billateral ties to another level
Dr. Seema Javed INDIA HAS been inducted into the Mineral Security Partnership (MSP), a US-led collaboration of 14 countries that aims to catalyse public and private investment in critical mineral supply chains globally. Minerals Security Partnership: The Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) is a global initiative by the US to bolster …
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