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Climate Change Threatens 55 Million in India's Coastal Areas: Report

2015-11-09 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NDTV: Climate change threatens nearly 55 million people in India's coastal areas. This could lock in enough rise of sea level to submerge land currently home to more than half a billion people globally if the temperature spikes by four degrees Celsius, which is humanity's current trajectory, according to a new report. The report published yesterday in Climate Central, a US-based non-profit research and journalism organisation also warned that the increase in temperature could submerge a whopping 145...

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Indias huge need for electricity is a problem for the planet

2015-11-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: Dusk descends on a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar as residents start their evening chores. Women walk in a line, balancing packets of animal fodder on their heads. Others lead their water buffalo home before dinner. Overhead loom bare utility poles -- built but never wired for electricity -- casting long shadows across the landscape. Of the worlds 1.3 billion people who live without access to power, a quarter -- about 300 million -- live in rural India in states such as Bihar....

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Indian government cancels Greenpeace Indias registration

2015-11-06 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: On November 4, the Indian government cancelled Greenpeace India Societys registration. The Society was registered in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India. This is an extension of the deep intolerance for differing viewpoints that sections of this government seem to harbor, Vinuta Gopal, Interim Executive Director of Greenpeace India, said in a statement. According to the notice issued by the Tamil Nadu Registrar of Societies, Greenpeace India societys registration was cancelled for fraudulently...

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India's Dr Reddy's gets FDA warning letter for three drug plants

2015-11-06 07:48:12| Biotech - Topix.net

MUMBAI: Dr Reddy's Laboratories Ltd, India's second-largest drugmaker by sales, received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over inadequate quality control procedures at three manufacturing plants in India. Dr Reddy's shares fell as much as 12 percent in early trade to their lowest level since July 30. The warning letter was issued by the FDA to Dr Reddy's on Thursday for its Srikakulam, Miryalaguda and Duvvada drug manufacturing plants - all based in southern India.

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