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New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) India faces a funding gap of $6.5 trillion to achieve its target of Net Zero emissions by 2070, with international capital needing to find a way to fund 40 per cent of the gap at a minimum, according to a report compiled by Australian economist Nicki Hutley.The report, released just ahead of the COP31 UN conference on climate change, highlights the NITI Aayog analysis, which suggests India has a cumulative need of $22.7 trillion by 2070 to fund its Net Zero transition, with the energy sector accounting for about half of this.NITI Aayog estimates that domestic capital can provide just over 70 per cent of financing needs, but significant reforms are required to achieve this. Reforms should include expanding corporate bond markets, mobilising pension savings, encouragi...

Jaipur, Nov 9 (IANS) The last rites of Behror MLA and former Rajasthan Cabinet Minister Jaswant Yadav were performed with full state honours on Monday in his ancestral village of Silpata.His son, Mohit Yadav, performed the final rites by lighting the funeral pyre. Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma paid his respects by laying a floral wreath on the mortal remains. A large number of public representatives, BJP leaders, party workers and residents attended the funeral. Earlier, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav paid tribute to the departed leader by draping the BJP flag over his mortal remains.Jaswant Yadav’s mortal remains were transported on Monday morning from his residence in Jaswant Nagar, Alwar city, to his ancestral village of Silpata in Behror in a funeral vehicle (Moksh Vahini). State ...

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 9 (IANS) On the eve of completing six months in office, Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan is stepping up his efforts to improve the functioning of the state administration, with a focus on faster file clearance, public grievance redressal, and better implementation of government schemes.Satheesan, who had no previous experience as a minister before taking over as Chief Minister, has so far made a positive impression with the way he has handled the new responsibility.On Monday, he convened a special meeting of departmental Secretaries and issued a series of directives aimed at making the bureaucracy more accountable and efficient.The meeting comes close on the heels of a major bureaucratic reshuffle last week, in which 35 IAS officers were transferred.The latest i...

Rajkot, Nov 9 (IANS) Two families in Gujarat have been able to avoid substantial medical expenses through the 'Ayushman Bharat' scheme, which covered the cost of surgeries and treatment that they said would otherwise have forced them to borrow money at interest.Jayantibhai Vadakia, a resident of Dharampur village in Chotila taluka, was suffering from kidney stones in both kidneys.His family's financial condition did not allow him to bear the cost of the operations. He subsequently underwent surgeries on both kidneys free of cost at Doshi Hospital in Rajkot district using his Ayushman Bharat card.The hospital also provided him with travel assistance of Rs 300 on two occasions.Recalling his experience, Vadakia said that without the health insurance card, he would have been forced to borrow...

New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Jammu and Kashmir Pollution Control Committee (JKPCC) to submit a fresh report on the status of wetlands in the union territory, including their actual existing area and a comparison with their recorded revenue area. A Bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, and comprising Expert Members Dr A. Senthil Vel and Dr Afroz Ahmad, was hearing two matters concerning the protection of wetlands in Kashmir, including a suo motu case registered following a news report highlighting concerns over the disappearance and shrinking of lakes in Jammu and Kashmir. The green tribunal took on record a status report filed by the JKPCC, which identified 27 wetlands measuring more than one hectare and situated outside ...

Srinagar, Nov 9 (IANS)The J&K Students Association (JKSA) on Monday wrote to Lt Governor Manoj Sinha seeking relaxation in the upper age limit for recruitment in J&K Bank."The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association (JKSA) has written to Lt Governor Manoj Sinha, expressing serious concern over the upper age limit prescribed in Jammu and Kashmir Bank’s latest recruitment notification for Probationary Officers (POs) and Banking Associates," JKSA's national spokesperson Dr Zubair Rishi said."The Association has urged the Lieutenant Governor to intervene and take up the matter with the J&K Bank management and other competent authorities in the larger interest of Jammu and Kashmir’s educated unemployed youth."The JKSA has argued that the announcement of fresh recruitment after a prol...

Hyderabad, Nov 9 (IANS) The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) of Telangana on Monday caught a Sub-Inspector of Police red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 2 lakh for doing an official favour.The anti-graft agency said that its officials caught Kondareddy Srinivas red-handed when he demanded and accepted the bribe amount of Rs 2 lakh from the complainant.The Sub-Inspector of Police, attached to Keesara Police Station of Malkajgiri Commissionerate, has been arrested.According to ACB, the complainant is an accused in two criminal cases registered at Keesara Police Station. The SI demanded and accepted the bribe allegedly to ensure expeditious completion of the investigations and immediate filing of charge sheets against the complainant.Acting on the complaint, ACB officials from City Range-2...

Imphal, Nov 9 (IANS) Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Monday said that the state government has handed over the case relating to the killing of two Kuki youths to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for investigation. The bodies of two Kuki youths -- identified as Tinginlun Chongloi (21) and Paoginlal Hangshing (20) – who went missing from Taphou Kuki village in Kangpokpi district on the evening of October 28, were found on November 1. The victims were allegedly abducted by unidentified attackers. Their bodies were recovered during a joint search operation by the Central and state security forces in the neighbouring Senapati District.The Chief Minister on Monday met with the families of the two victims at the Taphou Kuki Village Authority Office in Kangpokpi district. D...