Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will be visiting New Delhi for a meeting of the BRICS NSAs on June 22-23, which will set the stage for the summit of BRICS leaders in India in September this year.Wang was unable to attend the meeting of BRICS Foreign Ministers last month because he had to be in Beijing for the visit of…
Qadian-Beas railway line in Punjab: Union Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Singh Bittu on Thursday announced that the government has revived the long-pending Qadian-Beas railway line project in Punjab, nearly 100 years after it was first proposed. The minister said the 39.68-km-long rail line will connect Qadian in Gurdaspur district with Beas in Amritsar district. The project will be…
Asia’s warming rate during 1991-2025 was nearly twice as high as during 1961-1990, with 2025 emerging as one of the region’s warmest years on record and witnessing unprecedented ocean heat that triggered widespread marine heatwaves, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).WMO’s State of the Climate in Asia 2025 report, released Wednesday, found that temperatures over the Asian landmass in…
