India among top three contributors to tourism emissions during 2009-2019, study estimatesIf the world's top 20 highest emitting destinations had contained their tourism growth rate by one per cent a year from 2009 to 2019, about...
12 Dec, 2024, 09.46 AM IST
India among top three contributors to tourism emissions during 2009-2019, study estimatesA study reveals tourism emissions surged by 60% between 2009 and 2019, largely due to increased travel demand in India, the US, and China. ...
11 Dec, 2024, 07.06 PM IST
Poverty, climate, space: China's progress in 10 years under Xi JinpingChina's Communist Party prides itself on being "at the service of the people", so Beijing's announcement in 2020 that it had brought an end...
14 Oct, 2022, 10.21 AM IST
Kathmandu-Delhi, rework-in-progressChanging geopolitical contexts, Nepal's domestic political dynamics, global challenges such as climate change and energy transitions - all ...
17 May, 2022, 12.24 AM IST
China stocks end higher as strong exports data tempers economic fearsChina's export growth slowed in October but beat forecasts, helped by booming global demand ahead of winter holiday seasons, an easing powe...
08 Nov, 2021, 01.26 PM IST
Glasgow COP26 summit: PM Modi announces net zero emissions by 2070 for India02 Nov, 2021, 09.10 AM IST
China stocks fall on weak data, resurgence in virus casesChina's factory and retail sectors faltered in August, with output and sales growth hitting one-year lows as fresh coronavirus outbreaks an...
15 Sep, 2021, 02.22 PM IST
Australia hits out at threatened UN downgrade of Great Barrier ReefThe UN body released a draft report on Monday recommending the reef's World Heritage status be downgraded because of its dramatic coral dec...
22 Jun, 2021, 11.53 PM IST
US-China escalation likely post-election, not pre-election: Alastair Newton‘Airlines are not going back to the status in the foreseeable future’
05 May, 2020, 03.48 PM IST
Opec underestimates China coronavirus threatChina’s own oil consumption is down sharply as factories stay closed and travel restrictions remain in place even after the extended Lunar ...
16 Feb, 2020, 03.07 PM IST
Coastal Concerns: Rising sea levels will inundate coastal areas sooner than projectedAreas inhabited by 36 mn Indians now are at risk, much higher than the five mn expected previously.
10 Nov, 2019, 09.42 AM IST
Shipping Ministry unit goes a step ahead of Niti Aayog on ropewaysThe government feels there is a renewed focus on passenger ropeways with many states taking up ropeway projects for tourism and improving c...
28 Oct, 2018, 11.21 PM IST
China fixed Beijing air with iron hand: Where we differ in curbing the pollution menaceThe air Beijing was inhaling a couple of years ago was as toxic as Delhi's, but the Chinese capital managed the crisis quickly and effectiv...
02 Jun, 2015, 10.52 AM IST
- Corporates need to resist laying off employees, says Gupta
After a scare last week that large-scale retrenchments were in the offing, the Government has asked corporates to desist from laying off em...
02 Nov, 2008, 12.34 PM IST
- G-8 endorses halving of world greenhouse gas emissions
Leading industrial nations endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.
08 Jul, 2008, 03.25 PM IST
- World tourism chiefs in Dubai to plot future startegy
Global tourism leaders gather on Sunday in Dubai to plot future strategy for an industry which, despite a slight downward revision of annua...
18 Apr, 2008, 10.48 AM IST
- India to head UN World Tourism Organisation
India has been unanimously elected to head United Nations World Tourism Organization
30 Nov, 2007, 04.29 PM IST