The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has called on the Conservatives to maintain the cross-party consensus on gender identity services built before the last election in a letter to Kemi Badenoch. Streeting wrote to opposition leader on Friday urging her to “take the heat and the ideology” out of debate amid controversy over a puberty blocker…
A vast expanse of Khonoma Dzükou Valley in Nagaland has been razed down after a major fire erupted in the valley early on the morning of December 12, 2025. The incident came to light after video clips of fire blazing from the valley surfaced on social media. Khonoma Dzükou is the Khonoma-side expanse of the…
Controversy and opposition are growing about plans to fell 6,800 trees for widening the Gangotri National Highway in Uttarakhand. A new proposal from the state forest department proposes to relocate 4,366 trees and cut the remaining 2,456. Meanwhile, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has cast further doubt on the entire plan by stating that only…
Japan is preparing to convene informal meetings aimed at breaking the deadlock in global negotiations on a legally binding treaty to address plastic pollution, as governments gather in Nairobi, Kenya for the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7), which took place December 8 to December 12, 2025. The country said the sessions…
Ten years on from the historic Paris climate summit, which ended with the world’s first and only global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, it is easy to dwell on its failures. But the successes go less remarked. Renewable energy smashed records last year, growing by 15% and accounting for more than 90% of all…
North Bengal has always been a place where forests, wildlife and humankind stood undisturbed. Humans have never been hostile, barring a few incidences of killing as what we witness today. For generations, tea gardens, small villages, and dense jungles have shaped a landscape where humans, elephants and leopards were never in a confrontational mood; But…
As the Australian summer gets under way, many of us are planning holidays. When it comes to limiting emissions associated with travel, a staycation or local holiday – by train, bus or car – remains the lowest-impact option. But overseas travel by Australians has been increasing in recent decades, with Indonesia, New Zealand, Japan, the…
Gaza has been hit by heavy rains and low temperatures, deepening the misery of most of its 2.2 million population who are living in tents after two years of Israeli bombardment. Thousands of homeless people have been washed out of their makeshift shelters and forced to seek emergency refuge Source link
Set against blooming mustard flower beds, this year’s SARAS Aajeevika Food Festival, organised by the Union Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, from November 29 to December 9, was organised in the lush green manicured gardens of Sunder Nursery — a favourite winter refuge for Delhiites. The festival’s primary objective is to showcase Indian…
It was 3am Sunday when Robin and Paul McLean received the text. A fire was encroaching on their Lake Macquarie home, and it was too late to leave. Their adult daughter, who lives with them, is confined to her bed due to disability and has her own evacuation plan that includes calling an ambulance if…