Population growth and rising incomes across Asia will drive a 78 per cent increase in meat and seafood consumption by 2050, a new report released on Tuesday said. The report -- Charting Asia's Protein Journey' -- by Asia Research and Engagement (ARE) which examines the environmental effects of meeting Asia's growing demand for protein, was released at the Sustainable Food Summit here.

Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy has directed the state's Education Department to study the steps taken by Delhi to improve the quality of education in schools and have sought a report on it.

Delayed reaction by pilots commanding the chartered flight which ferried Congress President Rahul Gandhi from Delhi to Hubballi in Karnataka had brought the aircraft dangerously close to a crash, aviation regulator DGCA said on Friday.

The Law Commission on Thursday submitted its report to the government over the issue of "wrongful prosecution" of innocents, recommending enactment of a specific legal provision for redressing cases in terms of monetary and non-monetary compensation.

Individual city, region and company commitments in India could reduce emissions to 225-255 MtCO2e/year by 2030, more than the emissions generated by the country's industrial processes in 2014, a new international study said on Thursday.

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A committee of secretaries, formed to deliberate and make recommendations for a separate law to deal with the incidents of lynching, has submitted its report to Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, officials said on Wednesday.

Geneva, Aug 29 (IANS/AKI) Barely three fifths of child refugees are receiving a primary school education and the number who do not attend school has jumped by 500,000 in the past year to reach four million, the United Nations warned on Wednesday.

The amount of banned currency notes that did not return to the system post demonetisation stands at Rs 10,700 crore, or 0.7 per cent of the old lot of notes, an RBI data showed on Wednesday.

Notwithstanding the fact that only over Rs.10,000 crore of demonetised money did not come back to the RBI, government on Wednesday claimed that it has achieved the targets it had set in its decision, including checking black money, counterfeit currency and terror funding while encouraging digital transactions.