Around 200 enthusiasts gathered on Sunday
morning at the fort here to participate in the first-ever Heritage Marathon in
the historic city of Bidar. Men and
women aged above 60 ran alongside a group of children aged between 10 and 15. A
large number of the runners were young IT engineers, doctors, other
professionals and students from Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Latur,
and also from Kerala. Some had even come from beyond the borders.
Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) R.K. Pachauri on Sunday said the window of
action on tackling climate change was closing rapidly and warned that the path
of inaction would be more costly than the path of action. Speaking at the
launch of the IPCC’s Synthesis Report in Copenhagen, he said the scientific
community had done its job and was in a sense passing on the baton to
politicians and decision-makers. The Synthesis Report points to the human
influence on climate but also points out that there were means to limit climate
change and build a sustainable future. He said the global community must look
at the numbers in this report and bring about change. “There is no Plan B
because there is no planet B,” he said to questions.
The new Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra
Fadnavis, has retained Home and
Urban Development portfolios. Eknathrao Khadse has been given Revenue,
Minorities Development and Wakf, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Dairy
Development and Fisheries and Excise. Sudhir Mungantiwar will be Minister of
Finance and Forests. BJP’s only Maratha face, Vinod Tawade, got Education,
among others. Pankaja Munde, daughter of deceased veteran BJP leader
Gopinath Munde, has been given the portfolios of Women and Child Development, and Rural Development and Water
Conservation. Vidya Thakur has been made the Minister of State for these two
Ministries.
India’s
defence establishment will be fully responsible for a DRDO-developed critical
propulsion system that will go into the last two of the six Scorpene submarines being built under
technology transfer at Mazagon Dock, Mumbai, say the original makers of the
submarine. The system, called air-independent
propulsion (AIP), enhances the underwater endurance of conventional
(diesel-electric) submarines. Without it, they are forced to surface to
periscope depth to recharge their batteries — a position where they are most
susceptible to detection — at more frequent intervals.
France and
the United States headed a chorus of panic on Sunday after a major U.N. report
on climate change warned that the Earth was on track for potentially disastrous
global warming. France, which is hosting a U.N. conference in December 2015
that is supposed to seal cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, said the report
required “immediate, all-round mobilisation”.
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