Asian News International Researchers have said that reducing emissions will be the primary way to fight climate change.
Daniela Cusack, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor of geography in UCLA’s College of Letters and Science, said they found that climate engineering doesn’t offer a perfect option.
She said that the perfect option is reducing emissions.
An international mushaira programme of Urdu poets has been organised with an objective to create awareness on communal harmony and environment, here at the Bangalore Palace from 9 pm to 4 am on May 31.
The top seven Sensex companies saw a cumulative loss of Rs 90,452.18 crore in their market capitalisation (m-cap) last week, with energy majors ONGC and RIL taking the steepest hit.
The seven companies whose market valuation eroded in the week ended Friday (May 30) include RIL, ONGC, ITC, CIL, SBI, Infosys and ICICI Bank.
On the other hand, TCS, HDFC Bank and new entrant in the top 10 list Larsen & Toubro made gains.
The market capitalisation of ONGC dropped Rs 25,024.81 crore to Rs 3,23,611.41 crore, while RIL suffered a loss of Rs 20,266.28 crore to Rs 3,44,284.41 crore.
Assuring his full support to India’s 29th state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday said Telangana was born due to years of struggle and sacrifices and congratulated its first Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhara Rao.
“India gets a new state! We welcome Telangana as our 29th state. Telangana will add strength to our development journey in the coming years,” the prime minister tweeted minutes after Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to Rao.
The first high-level meeting of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on black money and special probe into cases of unaccounted funds stashed by Indians abroad, will be held here today.
The meeting, to be chaired by Justice (Retd.) MB Shah, will be attended by SIT Vice-Chairman Justice (Retd.) Arijit Pasayat and top officials of 11 high-profile agencies and departments.
According to sources from the media reports the meeting is expected to discuss policy matters on combating the menace of black money and the status of ongoing probes.
After over 60 years of Urdu coming to an end to be a language of higher education at Osmania University (OU), the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Manuu) is in the process of introducing it as a medium for bachelor and masters degrees in technical education.
The Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Manuu) was set up by the Central government in 1996. It was in 1949 that English replaced Urdu as a medium of instruction in Osmania University after about a quarter century.
With just two days left behind for the separate Telangana and (new) Andhra Pradesh states to come into existence, on Friday, the AP government made provisional allocation of several buildings which would house the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Council, and Secretariat to the two successor states.
The A, B, C and D Blocks on the existing Secretariat premises have been allocated for Telangana and J, K, L, H (South) and H (North) blocks for Andhra Pradesh. The AP government also allocated provisionally the office space to the departments of Secretariat of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
PM Narendra Modi on Friday in a strong message shot down the proposal that planned to include a chapter on his life in school textbooks
63- year- old Modi in messages posted on Twitter, said he believed the story of living individuals should not be part of school curricula. “India has a rich history of several stalwarts who made India what it is today. Young minds should read about these greats & emulate them,” he tweeted.
He made the tweets in response to proposals by BJP- ruled states like Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan to include a chapter on him in textbooks.
Bangalore Development Authority and BBMP officials were found passing the buck for the damaged Gowdanapalya Lake bund, which resulted in large scale fish kill in Dorekere.
As officials are indulged in blame game, at least 20,000 fish were found dead in Dorekere on Friday. According to Morning walkers, since Wednesday one lakh fish have died.
The gruesome incident of a woman being stabbed and thrown on the Outer Ring Road on Thursday necessitates for more patrol vehicles on the highway, say the Cyberabad traffic police.
Presently, only five patrol vehicles are operating on the 75-km stretch with each vehicle covering 15 km 24×7.
At first the Cyberabad traffic police had tied up with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority, and had introduced five vehicles saying that more will be procured later. It is almost five months now and there are no signs of more patrol vehicles.
N. Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister-in-waiting will have his office on the eighth floor of the L Block while Telangana Chief Minister-designate K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s on the sixth floor of the C Block on the Secretariat premises.
On Friday, the government officially made provisional allocation of buildings in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation area that will be the joint capital for the two states for the next 10 years, starting June 2, 2014.
BJP today demanded resignation of Home Minister K J George accusing him of having lost control of his department and failed to control Law and order in the wake of “shameful” public spat of top police echelon in the city.
“The State is witnessing a very disturbing and shameful incident of the top police echelon having a public spat over the last four days. The Chief Minister and Home Minister have remained mute spectators to this bizarre drama,” BJP said in a memorandum to Governor H R Bhardwaj following open display of friction in the city police top brass.
Actor Sunil Shetty, who will be next seen in Anand Kumar’s ‘Desi Kattey’, says he has accepted the generational change and is happy to see young talent in Bollywood do well.
“I accept the change around me. I don’t like to complain about this generation or the previous generation. I accept both success and failure and just focus on my work and if a film fails, I move on to a new movie,” Shetty told PTI.
“I am secure in whatever I do. I still live with my parents and meet my childhood friends. I have a social life,” he added.
Actress Angelina Jolie has no immediate plans to marry fiance and actor Brad Pitt. The reason, she says, is that she has no dress for the D-day!
The duo has been engaged for over two years now. “Nothing is ready. I don’t have a dress, noting that the big day matters to us in a very private way, but we also understand that we’re public people,” eonline.com quoted the 38-year-old as saying.
The actress and Pitt, 50, are parents to Maddox, 12, Pax, ten, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, seven, and twins Knox and Vivienne, five.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday demanded a CBI inquiry of the Badaun rape case, but added that delivering justice is more important than launching a probe.
“There should be a CBI inquiry in this case, but justice is more important than an inquiry. People who have done this should be made to realize that India will not tolerate such disrespect of women,” said Gandhi.
Social media website Facebook wants to patent a system, which would allow children to create accounts with parental supervision.
According to Politico, the patent application describes how a child seeking to join Facebook would first have to get a parent’s approval through the parent’s own Facebook account.
However, parents would then have the option to set privacy controls and to limit and monitor the kinds of content, friends and third-party applications available to the child.
A Curtin University researcher has revealed that Australia’s deadly eruptions, which occurred over 510 million years ago, were the significant reason behind the climate change that caused history’s first known mass extinction.
Fred Jourdan from Curtin’s Department of Applied Geology used the radioactive dating techniques to precisely measure the age of the eruptions of the Kalkarindji volcanic province where lavas covered an area of more than 2 million square kilometers in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
HTC is reportedly planning to launch its debut smartwatch, which would be called ‘ One Wear,’ in late August or early September.
According to CNET, the Taiwanese company will be soon entering the smartwatch race to compete with bigshots like Samsung and Motorola.
Smartwatches have quickly become the next big thing in the mobile market.
Recently, Motorola unveiled the Moto 360 with a round screen that runs on Google’s software.
Samsung too launched its Galaxy Gear, which is also competing in the space.
A Chinese entrepreneur has patented the first ever suitcase scooter that can travel upto 37 miles on a single charge.
The electric suitcase scooter, which has been built by He Liangcai, can go as fast as 12mph and has a GPS and an alarm, ABC News reported.
The inventor, from Hunan Province, said that it took him 10 years to develop the scooter and he came up with the unique idea when he forgot his luggage on his way to the airport for a flight to the United States. (ANI)
A new study has revealed how pleasant scent plays a crucial role in altering people’s perception towards others.
Janina Seubert, a cognitive neuroscientist said that odor pleasantness and facial attractiveness integrate into one joint emotional evaluation and this may indicate a common site of neural processing in the brain.
The study was focused on finding odor’s influence on two factors- perception of facial attractiveness and cognitive task of age evaluation.
Indian-origin scientist Anil Kulkarni, has been awarded with the highly competitive Fulbright -Nehru Scholarship.
Kulkarni is a professor in the Department of Surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health ) Medical School and his academic and professional experience gathered during his travel to India earlier, to teach immunonutrition and functional foods in the global health era, helped him grab this honor.
Congress Party general secretary Digvijay Singh on Saturday thanked Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani for seeking the reinstatement of suspended officials of the Delhi University for leaking her educational qualifications in personal and not her ministerial capacity.
However, he still asked Irani to come clean on what her actual educational qualifications were, and added that the university officials should not have been suspended in the first place.
Senior Congress leader Manish Tewari came out strongly against the Uttar Pradesh Government for the recent spate of gruesome attacks against women in Badaun and Azamgarh.
Tewari said, “It’s not only unfortunate but also a gruesome incident and it is the state government’s responsibility to ensure strict punishment for the accused. If the UP government cannot assure the citizens of their safety, then it is a very worrisome situation.”
If you want to keep away from hypertension, avoid negative interpersonal interactions.
Unpleasant or demanding interpersonal encounters increase hypertension risk among older adults, especially women, new research warns.
While negative interactions predicted hypertension risk among women, the same was not true for men.
“Women are particularly sensitive to negative interactions,” said Rodlescia Sneed of the Carnegie Mellon University.
The cup of your favourite green tea is full of health benefits and now researchers have found that an active compound in green tea also reduces the risk of pancreatic cancer.
In lab research, EGCG, the active biologic constituent in green tea, changed the metabolism of pancreatic cancer cells by suppressing the expression of the LDHA enzyme associated with cancer.
The researchers also found an enzyme inhibitor, oxamate – known to reduce LDHA activity – operated in the same manner: It also disrupted the metabolic system of pancreatic cancer cells.