DOUBLE STANDARDS

Talks on toxins

Nuclear contamination

Russia ratifies Kyoto Protocol

Overwhelming approval by both houses of Parliament

Putin's passion

A government under an asbestos roof

Bytes

Who's afraid of the Kyoto Protocol?

Russian president Putin?

Russia to supply 100 mln doses of COVID-19 vaccine to India

The pharmaceutical company will carry out phase-3 clinical trials and distribution of the vaccine under the agreement; Indian manufacturers …

Are Amur tigers ‘re-wilding’ China?

A camera-trap video recently captured a tiger family deep inside China

Will the Arctic be conquered?

The asbestos battle

Kremlin on Tartar sweet

India to set up 12 nuclear plants with Russian collaboration

India has agreed to identify a second site, in addition to Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, for construction of the Russian-designed plants

India should not prefer Russian COVID-19 vaccine over own: Vaccinologist Peter Hotez

India has a golden chance to emerge as a superpower; vaccine dissemination would be a paramount challenge, Hotez says in an …

UN issues seven licences for deep sea mining

Licences have been awarded to mining companies from India, the UK, Germany, Brazil, Singapore and Russia

Kyoto in trouble

Russia may not ratify it. And even if it does, it's not going to do so anytime soon. That was the message, loud and clear, from the Russian …

South African president works with cabinet on nuclear matters, says official statement

Government denies opposition charge that the president negotiated the nuclear deal with Russia alone

Money rains

Pollutants discharged from Russian smelters, worth millions of dollars, can be profitably extracted

Germs of terror

As terrorists arm themselves with biological weapons, India wakes up to find how ill equipped it is to face this deadly reality

Pact on synergy

EU Commission proposes to diversify energy supplies

Requiem for the world we know

Sea that isn't

In just 50 years, the Aral Sea - once the fourth largest inland water body - has turned into world's newest desert 

Warming Arctic may be responsible for world’s extreme weather

Melting of Arctic is triggering changes in global wind patterns and causing more frequent heatwaves and downpours in northern hemisphere, says …

Cleaning up the Iron Curtain