COP26 live: India will reach net zero emissions by 2070, says PM Modi

LIVE: Offices and shops in Bengaluru shut down and police battalions brought in to control crowds after actor's death.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke at COP26 Summit in Glasgow, Scotland saying climate is a big challenge for agriculture sector for most developing countries. He added that there is a need to include climate change adaptation policies in school syllabus to make next generation aware of issues.

Actor Puneeth Rajkumar died in a Bengaluru hospital on Friday after suffering a heart attack. He was 46. Writing on Twitter, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mourned the actor's death as "no age to go".

Shaktikanta Das was given another three-year term as the governor of the Reserve Bank, keeping the career bureaucrat at the helm to help guide the economy’s recovery from the ravages of Covid-19.

The decision, announced in a statement from the cabinet and effective when his current term ends December 10, ensures continuity in monetary policy settings and signals to investors that any normalization of interest rates will only be gradual.

Shares of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp (IRCTC) pared most of their sharp early losses on Friday, as the government reversed its decision to take 50 per cent share of the state-owned company's revenue from convenience fees.

IRCTC plunged as much as 30 per cent in its sharpest intraday fall since listing in 2019, wiping off as much as Rs 219 billion from its market valuation, after the Ministry of Railways asked it on Thursday to share 50 per cent of revenue earned from convenience fees from November 1.

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10:29 PM

India will reach net zero emissions by 2070, says PM Modi

India will reach net zero emissions by 2070, said PM Modi at climate summit in Glasgow

10:28 PM

COP26: Climate adaptation not got as much importance as mitigation, says PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that climate adaptation has not got as much importance as mitigation in the international climate debate which is an injustice to vulnerable countries.

Speaking at a side event Action and Solidarity: The Critical Decade' at the 26th UN climate conference in Glasgow, Modi stressed on the need to include in the school syllabus the importance of living in harmony with nature as per traditional practices.

"Adaptation has not got as much importance as mitigation in the international climate debate. It is injustice to those countries which are highly vulnerable to climate change, he told the gathering.

9:34 PM

COP26 Summit offered a wonderful opportunity to interact with various world leaders: PM Modi

9:19 PM

Need to include climate change adaptation policies in school syllabus: PM Modi

There is a need to include climate change adaptation policies in school syllabus to make next generation aware of issues, says PM Modi at COP26 Summit 

9:18 PM

Drinking water to affordable housing, all need to be made resilient against climate change: PM Modi

From sources of drinking water to affordable housing, all need to be made resilient against climate change, said PM Modi

9:16 PM

We have to make adaptation the main part of our development policies: PM Modi

We have to make adaptation the main part of our development policies & schemes, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi at COP26 Summit.

 

In India, schemes like 'Nal Se Jal', Clean India Mission & Ujjawala have not only given adoption benefits to our citizens but also improved their quality of life, he added.

8:56 PM

CBI report on judge's death reads like a novel: HC blasts probe

The High Court of Jharkhand on Friday said the charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the unnatural death case of a Dhanbad district judge in July is like a "novel" and the agency failed to substantiate the murder charge against the two accused, PTI reported. The court said the investigation was not conclusive and had not found any new facts.

8:25 PM

SAIL Q2 net profit jumps over 10 fold

State-owned steel firm SAIL on Friday reported an over 10-fold jump in its consolidated net profit at Rs 4,338.75 crore for the second quarter ended September 2021. The company had posted Rs 436.52 crore net profit in the year-ago quarter, said the company in a regulatory filing.

7:04 PM

India logs 3,74,397 accidental deaths in 2020

India recorded 3,74,397 accidental deaths in 2020 with road crashes constituting over 35 per cent of such fatalities, PTI reported quoting government data. The number was lower than 2019 when the figure stood at 4,21,104, the annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) showed. The rate of 'accidental deaths' per lakh population stood at 27.7 in 2020, down from 31.4 the previous year.

6:16 PM

Aryan Khan to be release from jail tomorrow: ANI

Aryan Khan, the son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, will not be released from jail today after getting bail in a drug haul case Thursday. He will be released Saturday morning, ANI reported quoting Arthur Road Jail officials.

6:10 PM

G20 want 70% of world vaccinated by mid-2022, set up task force

Finance and health ministers from the world's 20 biggest economies (G20) said on Friday they wanted 70% of the world's population vaccinated against COVID-19 over the next eight months and created a task force to better fight the pandemic, Reuters reported.

5:34 PM

Core sectors output up 4.4%

Output of India's eight core sectors up 4.4 pc in September as against 0.6 pc in same month last year, PTI reports quoting government data

5:08 PM

PM Modi mourns Puneeth Rajkumar's death

4:51 PM

Rahul Gandhi appears before court in defamation case

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday appeared before a magistrate's court in Surat city of Gujarat to record his statement in a criminal defamation case filed against him over his remark on the "Modi surname", PTI reported. This was the third time the Congress MP appeared before the court in connection with the 2019 case.

 

4:06 PM

Bengaluru on alert, some offices and shops shut after Puneeth Rajkumar's death

Offices and shops in of Bengaluru shut down and police battalions were brought in to control swarming crowds of fans in anticipation of violence after actor Puneeth Rajkumar died in the city on Friday, said Reuters. Rajkumar, 46, a lead actor in films and part of an illustrious movie family died after a heart attack on Friday afternoon, doctors treating him told reporters. Television channels showed crowds of fans swarming toward the hospital where he was being treated, and police battalions were seen trying to control them.