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Amendments to Disaster Management Act may retain NEC led by Union Home Secy

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Amendments to Disaster Management Act may retain NEC led by Union Home Secy

NEW DELHI: The National Executive Committee (NEC), which is responsible for drafting India’s lockdown and unlock guidelines to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, may be retained under a proposed amendment to the Disaster Management (DM) Act, 2005, officials aware of the matter said. The proposal to amend the Act and the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 is … Read more

Green development: Strategising mitigation of agricultural methane emissions

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Green development: Strategising mitigation of agricultural methane emissions

Representational image (Reuters) By Debesh Roy The challenge of green development should encourage nations to make concerted efforts to achieve the goal of restricting GHG emissions to 1.5% above pre-industrial levels set by the Paris Agreement and also achieve SDGs by 2030.  For achieving the 1.5% goal, emissions must drop 7.6% per year till 2030. The … Read more