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Indian ministries buy more air purifiers as capital battles toxic air

January 29, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Emerging Market Countries, Enterprise Reporting, Environment, Environmental Services (TRBC), Government / Politics, Government Finances, Health / Medicine, Healthcare (TRBC), INDIA, Pollution, PURIFIERS, Transportation (TRBC), US

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s government has stepped up the purchase of air purifiers over the last two years, taking

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Australia softens climate change rhetoric as bushfires, and voters, rage

January 15, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Climate Politics, Coal, Company News, Environment, fired Power Stations, Government / Politics, INDIA, POLITICS, Pollution, US, Wildfires / Forest Fires

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Three years ago, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, then Treasurer, brandished a lump of coal in parliament

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Australian prime minister’s approval rating singed by bushfires

January 13, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments ANTARCTICA, Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Climate Politics, Diplomacy / Foreign Policy, Disasters / Accidents, Economic Output, Environment, General News, Graphics, INDIA, Major News, Nature / Wildlife, Picture available, Pictures, Pollution, Precipitation, US, Video, Water, Wildfires / Forest Fires

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A political poll showed Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s popularity declined sharply as his government grappled with

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Australian PM proposes high-powered inquiry into bushfires response

January 12, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments ANTARCTICA, Asia / Pacific, Australia, BUSHFIRES, Climate Politics, Diplomacy / Foreign Policy, Disasters / Accidents, Environment, General News, Graphics, INDIA, Major News, Nature / Wildlife, Picture available, Pictures, Pollution, Precipitation, US, Video, Water, Wildfires / Forest Fires

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – After weeks of criticism over the handling of the bushfires scorching Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said

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Director urges Bollywood stars to break silence over citizenship law, violence

December 27, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Asylum / Immigration / Refugees, BOLLYWOOD, Celebrities, CITIZENSHIP, Civil Unrest, Crime / Law / Justice, Entertainment Production (TRBC), Film, Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties, General News, Government / Politics, Human Rights / Civil Rights, INDIA, Islam, Media / Publishing (Legacy), Media and Publishing (TRBC), Personalities / People, Picture available, Pictures, PROTESTS, US, Video

MUMBAI (Reuters) – One of Bollywood’s leading directors called on three superstar actors to break their silence about a new

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230,000 people lost in a day: Asia remembers devastating 2004 tsunami

December 26, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Disasters / Accidents, Earthquakes, Emerging Market Countries, Graphics, INDIA, INDIANOCEAN, INDONESIA, Pictures, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tsunami, US, Video

PHANG NGA, Thailand (Reuters) – Communities across Asia commemorated the 230,000 victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Thursday, the

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Fifteen years on, young Indian woman struggles after tsunami ‘took away everything’

December 18, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Disasters / Accidents, Emerging Market Countries, FAMILY, INDIA, INDIANOCEAN, Pictures, Society / Social Issues, Tsunami, US, Video

SERUTHUR, India (Reuters) – Saranya was only nine when the giant waves hit her family’s village in the southern Indian

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India’s smog-bound capital suffers most hazardous air so far this year

November 4, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Company News, Education, Emerging Market Countries, Environment, Government / Politics, Healthcare (TRBC), INDIA, Pollution, Precipitation, Transportation (TRBC), US

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Air pollution in New Delhi and surrounding towns reached the worst levels so far this year

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Young maestro takes baton as Israel Philharmonic’s Zubin Mehta ends 50-year tenure

October 25, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Art, Arts / Culture / Entertainment, Asia / Pacific, CLASSICALMUSIC, Conflicts / War / Peace, Entertainment Production (TRBC), INDIA, Israel, Leisure Products (TRBC), Middle East, Music, Palestinian Territories, Personalities / People, Picture available, Pictures, US, Video, Western Europe

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Zubin Mehta was only 25 years old when he first conducted the Israel Philharmonic. Over half

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Floods kill 113 in north India in late monsoon burst, jail, hospital submerged

October 1, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Asia / Pacific, Disasters / Accidents, Floods, Grains, INDIA, Pictures, Precipitation, US, Video, Water and Other Utilities (TRBC)

Rescue members evacuate people from a flood-affected neighbourhood in Patna, in the eastern state of Bihar, India, October 1, 2019.

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