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Green Electricity can become cheapest energy by 2050, says study
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], November 26 (ANI): Cost-slashing innovations are underway in the electric power sector and could give electricity the lead over fossil-based combustion fuels in the world's energy supply by mid-century, according to Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
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'Matka Man' quenches thirst of needy, fills earthen pots in south Delhi
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 12 (ANI): Serving potable water to the thirsty is mission for this septuagenarian in Delhi. Alag Natarajan serves water to the thirsty by filling up earthen pots in parts of south Delhi and has become famous as 'Matka Man'.
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Researchers conduct study to reduce tropical cyclone impacts
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], October 3 (ANI): A new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research found that increasing global warming from currently one to two degrees Celsius by mid-century might lead to about 25 per cent more people being put at risk by tropical cyclones.
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Researchers find double benefit of climate protection through both limitin
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], September 27 (ANI): Increasing global warming from currently one to two degrees Celsius by mid-century might lead to about 25 per cent more people put at risk by tropical cyclones, a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research found.
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Babul Supriyo just beginning, others in BJP will follow suit: Congress
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): After former union minister Babul Supriyo joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Congress has taken potshots at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying that many other leaders in the party will follow the suit.
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Mamata highlights COVID-19 vaccine shortage in Bengal, says state needs 14
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], September 1 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday took a potshot at the Centre by highlighting the shortage of COVID-19 vaccines and said that the state requires 10 crore more vaccine doses as it has administered 4 crore doses till yest
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Study reveals major Atlantic ocean current system might be approaching cri
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], August 6 (ANI): A recent study by Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Action Research (PIK) has revealed that the major Atlantic ocean current, to which the Gulf stream also belongs, may have been losing stability in the course of the last century.
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Demand for earthen pots on rise in Punjab's Ludhiana as temperature soars
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], June 20 (ANI): As health experts have advised people to avoid drinking cold water amid COVID pandemic, demand for traditional earthen pots to store or cool water has increased with the rise in temperature.
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Parts of Greenland may be on the verge of tipping, suggests new study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], May 18 (ANI): Scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have detected new early-warning signs that the central-western part of the Greenland ice sheet has been destabilizing and may now be close to a critical transition.
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NCB Mumbai seizes 2 kgs of Pseudoephedrine concealed at bottom of 9 hot po
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 5 (ANI): The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai on Monday seized 2 kgs of Pseudoephedrine (a stimulant) at Andheri East.
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Fair climate policy could help reduce extreme poverty: Study
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], April 27 (ANI): Climate change threatens to undermine efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. If recent trends continue, the UN goal to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 will be clearly missed.
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Congress leader takes jibe at party over non-inclusion of G-23 in campaign
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 15 (ANI): Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit has taken potshots at his party for not including 'infamous' G-23 in the party's star campaigners list for ensuing West Bengal and Assam Assembly elections, saying if the high command thinks that 30 leaders selected for ca
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