Geneva: The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning have helped reduce the human toll, the UN weather agency said Monday. The World Meteorological Organization, in an updated report, tallied nearly 12,000 extreme weather, climate and water-related
Geneva: All countries remain "dangerously unprepared" for the next pandemic, the Red Cross warned, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters. Despite three "brutal" years of the Covid-19 pandemic, strong preparedness systems are "severely lacking", the International Federation of Red Cross
New Delhi: As the global population reaches 8 billion, India, formerly a powerful driver of the number of people on the planet, is experiencing a marked slowdown.
London: Here are some of the worst cases in recent years: Central Asia, 2022 Three ex-Soviet neighbours, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, suffer one of the biggest blackouts in their grid-sharing region's history on January 25, 2022. Millions of people are affected by the outage, which halts subway trains,
New Delhi: Industrialist Gautam Adani has overtaken French billionaire Bernard Arnault to become the world’s third-richest person, real-time data on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed on Tuesday. He is the first Asian to be among the three richest persons in the world, according to Bloomberg. Adani’s
Srinagar: To condemn India’s illegal and unilateral steps in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the international community and Pakistan’s diplomatic missions abroad expressed solidarity with Kashmiris. Special events and rallies were held in various countries to raise a voice against the unilateral actions
London: A study has revealed that scientifically the world's most beautiful city is Chester in the northwest of England, reported Daily Mail. Researchers used the "golden ratio" to decide how beautiful a city would be. Chester, a walled cathedral city having 83.7 percent buildings, was ranked