WASHINGTON: The United States has gone cold on global warming after putting climate safeguards on ice. In a sweeping move, President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked the 2009 “endangerment finding” issued under Barack Obama, which had declared that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. The ruling empowered the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to...

Officials, experts and delegates of the International Big Cat Summit during their field visit in Nagarahole National Park. The International Big Cat Summit was held at the Nagarahole tiger reserve on February 12 and 13 as part of the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Executive Course. The programme was jointly organised by the International...

The Tarique Rahman-led centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won the Bangladesh elections on Friday (February 13), trouncing rivals led by the Jamaat-e-Islami. In the first polls held since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted in August 2024, the BNP seemed on course to win a two-thirds majority in the 300-member Parliament. In the absence of...