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Fast-rising methane emissions could undermine efforts to limit global warming by mid-century, prompting scientists and policymakers to urge aggressive action to curb output of the potent greenhouse gas. Nearly 160 countries have pledged a 30% cut from 2020 methane emissions levels by the end of this decade. Over the last five years atmospheric methane levels have risen at their fastest rate since record-keeping began in the 1970s, driven in part by natural sources, according to the 2024 Global Methane Budget report.   Here is why controlling methane emissions is so important: HEAT-TRAPPING POWER Methane molecules are more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) in trapping heat, meaning it takes fewer of them to cause the same amount of warming and reducing them can have a more immediate effect than reducing CO2. Tackling methane also makes financial sense. United Nations analyses have found cutting methane emissions is likely cheaper than CO2 cuts for a comparable climate benefit. W

Campaigning for the first phase of elections in Jharkhand came to an end today amid Kalpana Soren's claim that the BJP is not allowing her to campaign. Kalpana Murmu Soren, wife of Chief Minister Hemant Soren, is making her debut contest from the Gandey seat, which she had won in a by-poll held earlier this year. In a video posted on Instagram, Kalpana Soren alleged that she is being prevented from campaigning.  In the video she recounted the campaigns she had planned - Ghatshila, Jagannathpur, Latehar and Torpa - "But if you see, even in this election environment, the central government is carrying out its unethical policies and we are not being given permission to hold meetings in the elections so we can go to Jagannathpur, Latehar and Torpa and hold our programmes".  Now the elections that are happening in Jharkhand, "they are conducting the elections before time and conducting the five-phase elections in two phases," she said. "Today, when it is the

There is a trend towards a more diverse, multipolar world but older, industrialised economies have not gone away and remain prime investment targets, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday. Speaking at the silver jubilee celebrations of the Aditya Birla Group's Scholarships programme in Mumbai, S Jaishankar said while a lot of countries are nervous about the US -- following the return of Donald Trump as President -- India is not one among them. "Yes, there is a shift. We are ourselves an example of the shift... if you look at our economic weight, you look at our economic ranking, you look at even Indian corporates, their reach, their presence, Indian professionals, which I spoke about. So no question there is a rebalancing," S Jaishankar said in response to a question on the reset in the global power dynamic that was playing out amid the shift in the balance of power from the west to the east. "And to my mind, it was inevitable," he said, addin

The Enforcement Directorate's Srinagar Zonal Office has filed a Prosecution Complaint against conman Kiran Patel who availed of security from the Jammu and Kashmir administration by passing himself off as a Prime Minister's Office functionary and also duped several Gujarat-based businessmen by promising them opportunities in the Kashmir Valley, an official statement said on Saturday. The complaint, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, was filed before the special PMLA court, Srinagar, on October 28 and the court has issued notice to Patel, a resident of Ahmedabad, to appear before it on November 27. The ED initiated its investigation on the basis of the FIR registered by Nishat Police Station, Srinagar, against Patel and others for the offences under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. The financial probe agency's investigation revealed that Patel sought to pass himself as Additional Director, Strategy and Campaigns, PMO and fraudulently created/printed f

Chicago's Booth School of Business has been ranked the top institution globally for producing research with the greatest influence on management, according to an assessment by the Financial Times . It is followed by other leading US institutions, including Stanford, Columbia, MIT, and Harvard, which produce research that extends beyond academic circles to influence real-world policy and societal objectives. INSEAD, located in France and Singapore, and London Business School in the UK, are the leading institutions outside the US, securing positions just below elite American schools like Northwestern, Wharton, Berkeley Haas, and NYU. The Financial Times' assessment goes beyond traditional criteria focused solely on academic publication metrics. Instead, it takes into account faculty contributions to research that influences policy and practice, responding to increasing demands from students, educators, and organisations for greater accountability and a stronger societal impact.

The Congress party has lost its moorings because of leadership's disconnect with the public and the vision for India, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said, adding the opposition party is in a very steady state of decline. Mr Scindia, who quit the Congress in 2020 to join the BJP, said his former party has lost its connection in terms of leadership. "I think the Congress Party has lost its moorings. There's no debate about that, it has lost its moorings," he said in a text and video interview with PTI. He was asked if the Congress party had lost the momentum after better-than-expected performance in the April-May general elections. "To be very candid with you, I have no assessment of the Congress party. I believe that the Congress Party is in a very steady state of decline, and I think that's because of three things. I think the Congress Party has lost its connection in terms of leadership. "It has lost its connection in terms of the public, and

In a meeting with one of America's most powerful unions in September at its Washington headquarters, Vice President Kamala Harris said she'd protect union jobs and workers' livelihoods better than Donald Trump. But leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, long staunchly allied with her Democratic Party, appeared unconvinced. When Harris argued that her Republican rival was no champion of the working class, the union bosses grilled her, questioning whether she and President Joe Biden had done enough for union workers, according to a Teamster leader who recounted the Sept. 16 meeting to Reuters. Within days, the union publicly embarrassed Harris by declining to endorse a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1996. In the wake of Harris' loss of the 2024 presidential election, her tense exchange with union leaders underscores a critical failure of her campaign: connecting with working-class voters anxious about the economy and high pric

The day before Election Day, 17-year-old girl Carmen Hernandez held a cardboard sign with the Puerto Rican flag outside Trump's rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city that is two-thirds Hispanic. "What you call trash is our treasure," the sign read. While Trump's campaign had quickly distanced itself from a comic's slam on Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage," Kamala Harris' campaign and other Democrats spent the last hours of the 2024 campaign in the nation's largest battleground state linking him to the joke. Harris devoted much of her final full day on the campaign trail to reaching Latino voters in Pennsylvania, a swing state that Democrats consider part of their "blue wall" in the Electoral College. She made multiple stops in what is known as the 222 Corridor, after the highway that connects small cities and towns west and north of Philadelphia. More than 315,000 people who are 18 and older identify as Puerto Ricans in

The Kollam Principal District and Sessions Court on Monday found the first three accused guilty in the 2016 Kollam Collectorate blast case while the fourth accused was acquitted in a verdict delivered by the court eight years after the blast. The three accused identified as Abbas Ali, Karim Raja, Dawood Sulaiman, all hailing from Tamil Nadu were convicted in the case, while Shamsudeen was acquitted. The blast occurred on June 15, 2016, and rocked the premises of the collectorate, injuring one person. The court will announce the sentencing for the guilty on Tuesday. The accused had used an improvised explosive device (IED) which was placed inside a jeep that was parked on the collectorate compound. The IED was detonated with the help of a timer device. from NDTV News Search Records Found 1000 https://ift.tt/DZqARlv

A harrowing incident unfolded on October 31st when American Airlines Flight 954, en route from Buenos Aires to New York, was forced to make an emergency return to its departure airport. The cause of the disruption? A series of mysterious banging noises emanated from the cargo hold.  Passengers and crew aboard the flight were understandably alarmed by the sounds, which resembled someone knocking from within the sealed compartment. As the plane ascended to 30,000 feet, speculation ran rampant, with many fearing a potential intruder or other serious security threat. In response to the escalating situation, the pilot made the decision to turn the aircraft around and return to Buenos Aires International Airport. Upon landing, heavily armed police and specialized tactical teams swarmed the plane, initiating a thorough search of the cargo hold.  American Airlines flight AA954 returns to Buenos Aires Airport after a ground worker gets trapped in the cargo hold. Flight attendants alerted

Two senior forest officials of Madhya Pradesh have been suspended for alleged negligence in their duties after the death of 10 elephants at the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve.  Assistant Forest Conservator Fateh Singh Ninama and Field Director Gaurav Chaudhary were removed from their posts due to failures in leadership and vigilance.  The suspensions come after several allegations, including delayed response times and a lack of oversight to critical incidents involving elephant welfare in the reserve. Field Director Gaurav Chaudhary faced suspension for failing to return from leave when informed about the elephant deaths. Mr Ninama was accused of failing to take proactive measures despite previous elephant sightings.  Last year also three employees from the tiger reserve were suspended -- Officer Shil Sindhu Shrivastava and Forest Guards Kamla Prasad Kol and Pushpendranath Mishra. They had kept silent about the discovery of a dead elephant and burnt the carcass.  The matter became known

The AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal Saturday promised to waive inflated bills for water and electricity if he comes to power again following next year's Delhi assembly elections. Taking part in an event on the occasion of Vishwakarma Day at Transport Nagar here, he said, "I am not a politician like leaders from other parties. For the past 10 years, I have worked for the development of the people. I have been educated by the institute of the country, so I know how to work." He said that when he was in jail in connection with a case related to the Delhi liquor policy scam case, the lieutenant governor was running the city government and people got inflated water and electricity bills. "Do not worry. Now I am out and your bills will be waived when the AAP comes into power in February," Arvind Kejriwal said. The AAP supremo claimed that the party's government in Delhi has achieved all-round development in the national capital that ranges from education

The body of a woman was on Saturday recovered from the staircase of a building in the Garfa area of Kolkata, police said. The live-in partner of the woman and her elder sister have been detained after family members alleged that she was murdered, they said. Initial probe revealed that the 37-year-old woman along with her elder sister was staying in the flat of her partner since Thursday and they had all been consuming alcohol, a senior police officer of Garfa police station said. "On late Friday night, while climbing down the stairs she allegedly fell and hurt herself. She was declared brought dead while taken to the Bangur Hospital," he said. Police have started an investigation and are questioning the live-in partner and her sister in connection with the death, he said. "The woman, though married, was not living with her husband... We are probing the matter," police said. from NDTV News Search Records Found 1000 https://ift.tt/evkritp

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi has declared a public holiday on November 7 for Chhath Puja, calling it an "important festival" for the residents of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. In an official announcement, Chief Minister Atishi stated that the Delhi government has decided to observe a holiday on 7 November for Chhath Puja, enabling the Purvanchal community to celebrate the festival with great enthusiasm. In a letter addressed to the Chief Secretary of Delhi, Atishi wrote, "Chhath Puja is an important festival for the people of the NCT of Delhi. Accordingly, the Government of NCT of Delhi has decided to declare 7th November 2024 as a Public Holiday on account of 'Chhath Puja'." The announcement follows a request from Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinay Kumar Saxena, who had urged the Chief Minister to declare a full public holiday on the third day of Chhath. "In just a few days, we will be celebrating Chhath, a grand festival observed over