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Rising sea levels due to global warming a threat to millions living in coa
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 25 (ANI): The rising sea levels, as shown from satellite data received from European Space Agency (ESA), is a threat to the millions of people living in coastal regions, said Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) Madhavan Rajeevan on Sunday.
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Death toll from floods, landslides in Vietnam reaches 130
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Hanoi [Vietnam], October 25 (ANI/Xinhua): The death toll from landslides, floods and other natural disasters triggered by downpours in Vietnam's central and central highlands regions since early October has climbed to 130, with another 18 people missing, the country's Central Steering Commit
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Educate Girls' solution to 'Empower 1.5M girls to go to school' gets selec
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] October 21 (ANI/PRNewswire): Educate Girls, a non-profit working in remote, rural regions of India, has announced that its solution to 'Empower 1.5 million girls to go to school' has been selected as one of the 2020 new Solver class at MIT Solve Challenge Finals
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Heavy rains likely to lash parts of south, north interior Karnataka
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], October 19 (ANI): The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) on Monday predicted heavy rains likely over south interior Karnataka (SIK), Malnad and parts of north interior Karnataka (NIK) regions, and light to moderate rains over coastal re
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Study reveals 68 pc of deaths from firearms are from self-harm, majority i
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Ontario [Canada], October 19 (ANI): A new study of gun injuries and deaths in Ontario found that 68% of firearm-related deaths were from self-harm, and they most often occurred in older men living in rural regions, pointing to the need for targeted prevention efforts.
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With dip in air quality in Delhi, health experts witness 15 pc rise in COP
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 19 (ANI): Health experts have been witnessing an almost 15 per cent rise in the number of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or Asthma patients for the past 10 days as air quality started aggravating from moderate to poor to very poor in the national capi
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Punjab: Over four dozen BJP leaders join SAD
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Chandigarh [India], October 14 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received a big jolt in Punjab on Wednesday when more than four dozens of its leaders from different regions, including the state- and district-level office bearers, joined its erstwhile ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), in
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Over 8,000 people ordered to evacuate in Japan as storm Chan-hom looms
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], October 10 (ANI/Sputnik): Tropical storm Chan-hom is expected to skirt Japan's main islands but will likely cause heavy damage to the Izu islands south of Tokyo, public broadcaster NHK said Saturday, adding that local governments throughout the southern regions have issued eva
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Heavy rains likely over South interior Karnataka, Malnad regions
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 9 (ANI): Fairly widespread rains with isolated places to very heavy rains likely over the south interior and Malnad regions and scattered to widespread light rains likely over the north interior region, said Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDM
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Ambulances gifted by India help improve medical facilities in various regi
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], October 8 (ANI): The organisations who received ambulances on the 151st Gandhi Jayanti this year have expressed gratitude to the Indian government and said that it would contribute a lot to improve health facilitates in their areas.
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Five regions in western France declare 'orange' weather alert as storm Ale
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Paris [France], October 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The national Meteo France meteorological agency on Thursday placed five western departments on the so-called orange weather warning, bracing for Storm Alex, which is expected to make landfall in the northwest of the country.
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Cement prices likely to fall by 3.7 pc q-o-q in Q2: Emkay
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 29 (ANI): Average trade prices of cement declined by Rs 3 to 5 per bag across regions this month, prompting experts to conclude that they will mark a fall of 3.7 per cent quarter-on-quarter during July to September.
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