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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...

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...