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'India Should Guide World Fighting Climate Change,' Says PM Narendra Modi
2015-04-06 06:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: As he launched a National Air Quality Index on Monday morning at a two-day environment conference, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused western countries of double standards saying, "People who lecture us on environment protection refuse to give us nuclear fuel for clean energy." Here are 10 updates: The index has been launched for 10 cities initially, including Delhi, which has recently been declared the world's most polluted capital by the World Health Organisation or WHO, bringing pressure on...
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Modi budget slashes environmental funding for India
2015-03-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Environmentalists in India have expressed alarm over the new budget of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which they say heralds substantial cuts in environmental programmes and fails to address the countrys worsening pollution and vulnerability to climate change. The budget for the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change for the fiscal year beginning April 1 has been reduced by 25 percent, from 22.6 billion Indian rupees ($360 million) to 16.8 billion rupees ($268 million)....
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India PM Modi Pledges Climate Alliance with Small Island States
2015-03-11 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Indias prime minster will cooperate closely with small island states on work towards a global climate change pact, he said today. Speaking alongside Seychelles president James Michel, Narendra Modi said Indias consistent support to low lying states would continue in the run-up to Paris, where a UN deal is set to be signed in December. We are two nations that are vulnerable to its impact. And we are deeply committed to combating it, he said. We also called for a strong and ambitious...
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Will Narendra Modi be India's Thatcher?
2015-02-27 01:35:16| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Will Narendra Modi be India's Thatcher?
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Modi bets on GM crops for India's second green revolution
2015-02-22 05:55:20| Chemicals - Topix.net
On a fenced plot not far from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home, a field of mustard is in full yellow bloom, representing his government's reversal of an effective ban on field trials of genetically modified food crops. The GM mustard planted in the half-acre field in the grounds of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi is in the final stage of trials before the variety is allowed to be sold commercially, and that could come within two years, scientists associated with the project say.
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