As per Nicaragua`s President Daniel Ortega, his government would sign the Paris Agreement, a move set to leave the United States and Syria as the only two countries outside the global climate pact.
Nicaragua had previously refused to sign the 2015 agreement on the grounds that it did not go far enough to combat global warming.
Redesign Cities against Attacks
The European Commission pledged 118.5 million euros ($139.2 million) to help Europe`s cities guard against attacks and outlined how EU countries could do more to curb the sale of bomb-making materials.
Security Commissioner Julian King said that 18.5 million euros of EU funding would be made available this year and 100 million euros in 2018 to help redesign cityscapes to mitigate the risks.
The EU executive wants cities to come up with innovative solutions to protect buildings and crowded spaces that could be copied elsewhere. These could include changes to the design of a public space, lighting or public awareness campaigns.
China to Build World-class Armed Forces
According to President Xi Jinping, the Communist Party of China (CPC) will strive to fully transform the people`s armed forces into the world-class military by the mid-21st century.
According to Xi, by 2020, mechanization will be basically achieved, with IT application coming a long way and strategic capabilities seeing a big improvement.
The modernization of the national defence and armed forces should be basically completed by 2035.
A new study based on the first global survey of marine life predicts that as the oceans warm fish -- which appear to be superior predators in warm water -- will extend their ranges away from the equator and cause a decline in the diversity of invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters, sea urchins and whelks.
The effects of climate change on marine life vary greatly between geographic regions.
According to data released by RBI, India Inc.’s investment in overseas ventures fell by almost 39.3% in September this year.
India Inc. had invested $1.34 billion in their overseas ventures that were either fully owned subsidiaries or joint ventures of the Indian parent companies. The $2.65 billion worth of investment in September was in the form of equity stake, loan and issuance of guarantee by Indian entities.
Consumer Goods StandardsTightened
India is tightening quality controls for consumer and capital goods, officials say, a move that follows calls to curb cheap imports from China amid diplomatic tensions between the world's two most populous nations over their shared border.
The new rules target toys, electronic goods, machinery, food processing, construction and chemicals, sectors dominated by China, and come amid greater scrutiny of mainland firms looking to enter India's multi-billion dollar power transmission and telecoms business.
Saina Nehwal knocked out Olympic champion Carolina Marin of Spain in the opening round of women's singles competition in the Denmark Open.
She will play either Thailand's Nitchaon Jindapol or Russia's Evgeniya Kosetskaya in the next round.
Other Indians Kidambi Srikanth and H S Prannoy made positive starts to the tournament but B Sai Praneeth crashed out in the opening round of men's singles.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a list of 68 candidates for the upcoming Himachal Pradesh elections 2017 on Wednesday. The state will go to polls on November 9. The counting of votes will take place a month later.
Former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal will contest from Sujanpur. Dhumal has swapped his present Hamirpur seat with party MLA Narendra Thakur, who will now be the party candidate from the seat.
IIT Kharagpur Partnering NGOs and Corporates
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur is gearing up to partner with corporate houses and NGOs to shape up their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.
As per Prof. Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay, Helping the corporate and NGOs reach their CSR goals with our technology will be our way of giving it back to the society.
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport
Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has ranked no. 1 in the Airports Council International's service quality in the category of 5 to 15 million passengers per annum.
The trophy was formally handed over for the year 2016.
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