Chief Secretary of UP in the inaugural of APAC ‘India Digital Empowerment Meet & Awards’… Lucknow. Uttar Pradesh moving fast to realise 1 Trillion Dollar economy. This was stated by Durga Shanker Mishra, IAS, Chief Secretary of UP in the inaugural of ‘3rd India Digital Empowerment Meet & Awards’ which …
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Nine new countries sign up for Global Offshore Wind Alliance in COP27
COP27 has seen nine new countries including Belgium, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, the US join the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA), pledging to a rapid ramp up of offshore wind in order to tackle the climate and energy security crises. The Global Offshore Wind Alliance …
Read More »Loss and Damage in the Sundarbans
Dr. Seema Javed The Sundarbans are a cluster of low-lying islands in the Bay of Bengal, spread across India and Bangladesh. The region is recognised internationally for its unique biodiversity and ecological importance – including the single largest mangrove forest in the world, encompassing a total area of 10,200 km2. …
Read More »The closing window: inadequate progress on climate action makes rapid transformation of societies only option
Dr. Seema Javed As intensifying climate impacts across the globe hammer home the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall rapidly, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report finds that the international community is still falling far short of the Paris goals, with no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place. …
Read More »Have India learnt from last year’s T20I World Cup debacle?
Dr. Subhasis Ray & Dr. Bhaskar Basu Another T20 World Cup tournament is knocking at our door. But have we learnt from our debacle in the last World Cup (i.e. T20I WC held in 2021 in UAE)? Our hearts think so, but heads don’t. India’s fate was decided quite early …
Read More »Mulayam Singh Yadav founder of Samajwadi Party dies at 82
Jubilee News Desk Former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and founder of Samajwadi Party Mulayam Singh passed away on Monday at the age of 82. He was to turn 83 in six weeks. Samajwadi Party quoted Mulayam Singh’s son Akhilesh Yadav as saying, “My respected father and everyone’s Neta-ji has …
Read More »Cancer Run, reckon across 130 countries in six continents !
Hyderabad. The Fifth edition of the World’s largest cancer awareness and Guinness Record holding run, the Dandamudi Global Grace Cancer Run – 2022, was flagged off formally by Shri Stephen Raveendra, Police commissioner of Cyberabad Metropolitan Police; today at Gachibowli stadium. Dr Avanindra Dandamudi, Managing Director, Dandamudi Biotech; Dr Sridhar …
Read More »Tax frequent fliers to decarbonize aviation fairly : A study urges
Dr. Seema Javed A new paper analyzes how progressive taxation such as a Frequent Flying Levy (FFL) can generate revenue to decarbonize aviation in an equitable way. FFL is a per-flight tax that increases as a person takes more flights in a year, in contrast to a flat ticket tax …
Read More »Akhilesh Yadav elected Samajwadi Party chief again
Jubilee News Desk # This is third time that Akhilesh became party chief # Since January 2017 Akhilesh is heading the party Akhilesh Yadav was re-elected president of Samajwadi Party (SP) Thursday, for a third consecutive time. Akhilesh had become party president first on January 1, 2017 and again in …
Read More »Only SP can defeat BJP: Akhilesh
Jubilee News Desk Samajwadi Party’s national president Akhilesh Yadav Wednesday said only SP could defeat the BJP. He was addressing the party convention in Lucknow. Akhilesh Yadav said that despite the results from the SP and BSP alliance were not as per expectations yet it has been proved that …
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