The University Grants Commission (UGC) India hosted a meeting on 9th April 2019 to streamline environment and sustainable activities in the educational campuses. The commission in its 540th meeting on 9th April decided to develop a guideline on 'Eco-friendly and Sustainable Campus Development'. Smart Campus Cloud Network (SCCN) will be an instrumen...
Every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror. They are displaced within their own countries or in other countries, mostly neighbouring. World Refugee Day falls e...
Yes, we can beat plastic pollution. Just start from Campus! The water that we drink today is possibly what thirsty dinosaurs were drinking about 65 million years ago. This is just one example of ...
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Confirms it! 'There is a 66% likelihood that the annual average near-surface global temperature between 2023 and 2027 will be more than 1.5°C above pre-industri...
World Health Day- 7 April 2023 The World Health Organisation (WHO) is a specialised agency within the United Nations system. Established on April 7 1948, with its headquarter in Geneva, it promot...
286 years! That's the time needed to promote, enforce and monitor gender equality in public life. This stark reality and the fate of SDG 5 on gender equality, are to be achieved by 2030. It was so sta...
Wild animals are not wilder any more. Frankly stating "wild animal" is the term developed and used by the humans who are now walking the path of wilderness. We humans have proved from our actions tha...
Imagine that every single second 24,000 tons of blinding white ice solidified thousands of years back melts and adds blue water to the world's oceans? That is equivalent to 750 billion tons of i...
By Dr Chandrakant S. PandavPadmashree Awardee (2021),Former Professor & Head, Centre for Community Medicine, The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, The Iodine Man of India...
COVID-19 is not the only pandemic that has trapped humanity. Conflicts between nations, climate change that is heating the world and catastrophic loss of biodiversity are also pandemics that have invi...