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NASA Satellites Reveal Freshwater Decline as Global Droughts and Warming Persist
NASA’s GRACE satellites have recorded a significant decline in Earth’s freshwater reserves since 2014, revealing a loss of 1,200 cubic kilometres—two and a half times the volume of Lake Erie. This trend, highlighted in the journal Surveys in Geophysics, is attributed to persistent droughts and rising global temperatures, particularly in regio...
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Malaysia End-August Palm Oil Stocks Hit 2 Million Tonnes, First In 2 Years
Malaysia's palm oil inventories at end-August likely swelled above 2 million tonnes for the first time in more than two years, lifted by a jump in production, a Reuters survey showed on Monday.
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Trust In News Has Grown Amid Pandemic, But It Is Below Average In India: Report
Trust in news has grown amid the coronavirus pandemic with 44 per cent of the respondents globally saying they trust most news most of the time, but the figure is below average at 38 per cent in India, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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Indians Spend More Time Watching Online Videos Than TV: Survey
The amount of time Indian viewers spend watching online videos is far higher than the global average of six hours and 45 minutes each week in 2018, Limelight Networks.
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This Is The World's Most Liveable City, According To Global Survey
Vienna has dislodged Melbourne for the first time at the top of the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Index, strengthening the Austrian capital's claim to being the world's most pleasant city to live in.
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Maruti Suzuki Is The World's 9th Most Valuable Auto Brand
The BrandZ survey is one of the most important and most recognised global brand value surveys in the world. And for the first time ever, Maruti Suzuki, India's largest automaker, has managed to break into the global Top 10 brand chart for the auto sector and is now the 9th most valuable auto brand in the world. The automaker is valued at $ 6,375 Bi...
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Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian On Road Ahead For India's Economy: Highlights
For the first time today, the government presented asecond or a mid-year economic survey for the year 2017-18highlighting the new factors that the economy faces since thelast such exercise in February. India's service sector, which was highly resilient even during the global financial crisis, has moderated to 7.7 per cent in 2016-17, according to t...
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India Leads Globally In Adoption Of Biometric Technology: Report
With advancements in the field of biometric technology, India has topped globally in adoption of biometrics techniques, says a report. "On an average, people in India (9 per cent) are three times more likely than any other country (3 per cent) surveyed to have used 'iris recognition' to identify themselves," said the HSBC's recent 'Trust in Technol...
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Britain's Oxford Ranked World's Top University: Survey
The University of Oxford has become the first British university to top the Times Higher Education's global league table, knocking the California Institute of Technology into second place.
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A Huge Crack Is Spreading Across One Of Antarctica's Biggest Ice Shelves
For some time, scientists who focus on Antarctica have been watching the progression of a large crack in one of the world's great ice shelves - Larsen C, the most northern major ice shelf of the Antarctic peninsula, and the fourth largest Antarctic ice shelf overall.
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Reporting On Uttarakhand Fires From A Chopper, This Is What I Saw
As we set out for an aerial survey of the Uttarakhand forest fires, within 15 kilometres of the Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun, barely a few minutes flying time, our single engine helicopter flew right into a white patch. This wasn't a cloud. It was smoke. We were now flying blind, aided only by the helicopter's Global Positioning System.
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Chinese Prefer Pak, Want To Move Away India As Neighbour: Survey
If given a chance to 'play God', majority of Chinese would like to redraw country's map and move away neighbours such as India, Japan with whom Beijing has territorial disputes.
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October-December Quarter Will See Robust Hiring in India: Survey
The global trend for the job market also looks positive, with employers in 36 of 42 countries and territories saying that they intend to add to their payrolls by varying margins during the October-December time frame.
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China, Euro Zone Weaken Despite World Awash With Cash
Manufacturers across the world struggled, a series of surveys showed on Tuesday. It came as the People's Bank of China loosened policy for the second time in two months last week and amid 60 billion euros a month of European Central Bank stimulus.
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Asian Shares Skid as China Data Disappoints
China's factory sector unexpectedly shrank for the first time in nearly 2-1/2 years last month and firms see more gloom ahead, according to a survey released on Sunday. The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 49.8 in January, a low last seen in September 2012 and below the 50-point level that separates growth from contraction on a mon...
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NASA Satellites Reveal Freshwater Decline as Global Droughts and Warming Persist
NASA’s GRACE satellites have recorded a significant decline in Earth’s freshwater reserves since 2014, revealing a loss of 1,200 cubic kilometres—two and a half times the volume of Lake Erie. This trend, highlighted in the journal Surveys in Geophysics, is attributed to persistent droughts and rising global temperatures, particularly in regio...
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Malaysia End-August Palm Oil Stocks Hit 2 Million Tonnes, First In 2 Years
Malaysia's palm oil inventories at end-August likely swelled above 2 million tonnes for the first time in more than two years, lifted by a jump in production, a Reuters survey showed on Monday.
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Trust In News Has Grown Amid Pandemic, But It Is Below Average In India: Report
Trust in news has grown amid the coronavirus pandemic with 44 per cent of the respondents globally saying they trust most news most of the time, but the figure is below average at 38 per cent in India, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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Indians Spend More Time Watching Online Videos Than TV: Survey
The amount of time Indian viewers spend watching online videos is far higher than the global average of six hours and 45 minutes each week in 2018, Limelight Networks.
-
This Is The World's Most Liveable City, According To Global Survey
Vienna has dislodged Melbourne for the first time at the top of the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Index, strengthening the Austrian capital's claim to being the world's most pleasant city to live in.
-
Maruti Suzuki Is The World's 9th Most Valuable Auto Brand
The BrandZ survey is one of the most important and most recognised global brand value surveys in the world. And for the first time ever, Maruti Suzuki, India's largest automaker, has managed to break into the global Top 10 brand chart for the auto sector and is now the 9th most valuable auto brand in the world. The automaker is valued at $ 6,375 Bi...
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Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian On Road Ahead For India's Economy: Highlights
For the first time today, the government presented asecond or a mid-year economic survey for the year 2017-18highlighting the new factors that the economy faces since thelast such exercise in February. India's service sector, which was highly resilient even during the global financial crisis, has moderated to 7.7 per cent in 2016-17, according to t...
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India Leads Globally In Adoption Of Biometric Technology: Report
With advancements in the field of biometric technology, India has topped globally in adoption of biometrics techniques, says a report. "On an average, people in India (9 per cent) are three times more likely than any other country (3 per cent) surveyed to have used 'iris recognition' to identify themselves," said the HSBC's recent 'Trust in Technol...
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Britain's Oxford Ranked World's Top University: Survey
The University of Oxford has become the first British university to top the Times Higher Education's global league table, knocking the California Institute of Technology into second place.
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A Huge Crack Is Spreading Across One Of Antarctica's Biggest Ice Shelves
For some time, scientists who focus on Antarctica have been watching the progression of a large crack in one of the world's great ice shelves - Larsen C, the most northern major ice shelf of the Antarctic peninsula, and the fourth largest Antarctic ice shelf overall.
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Reporting On Uttarakhand Fires From A Chopper, This Is What I Saw
As we set out for an aerial survey of the Uttarakhand forest fires, within 15 kilometres of the Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun, barely a few minutes flying time, our single engine helicopter flew right into a white patch. This wasn't a cloud. It was smoke. We were now flying blind, aided only by the helicopter's Global Positioning System.
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Chinese Prefer Pak, Want To Move Away India As Neighbour: Survey
If given a chance to 'play God', majority of Chinese would like to redraw country's map and move away neighbours such as India, Japan with whom Beijing has territorial disputes.
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October-December Quarter Will See Robust Hiring in India: Survey
The global trend for the job market also looks positive, with employers in 36 of 42 countries and territories saying that they intend to add to their payrolls by varying margins during the October-December time frame.
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China, Euro Zone Weaken Despite World Awash With Cash
Manufacturers across the world struggled, a series of surveys showed on Tuesday. It came as the People's Bank of China loosened policy for the second time in two months last week and amid 60 billion euros a month of European Central Bank stimulus.
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Asian Shares Skid as China Data Disappoints
China's factory sector unexpectedly shrank for the first time in nearly 2-1/2 years last month and firms see more gloom ahead, according to a survey released on Sunday. The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 49.8 in January, a low last seen in September 2012 and below the 50-point level that separates growth from contraction on a mon...
