Air pollution claimed approximately 54,000 lives in Delhi in 2020, according to a Greenpeace Southeast Asia analysis of cost to the economy due to air pollution. Six Indian cities — Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Lucknow — feature in the global analysis. Globally, approximately 1,60,000 deaths have been attributed to PM 2.5 air pollution in the five most populous cities — Delhi, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo. The damage is “equally worrying” in other Indian cities, said the report, released on Thursday. “An estimated 25,000 avoidable deaths in Mumbai in 2020 have been attributed to air pollution. Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad estimated an approximate 12,000, 11,000, and 11,000 avoidable deaths respectively due to polluted air,” it said. According to the report, the ‘Cost Estimator’, an online tool that estimates the real-time health impact and economic cost from fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) air pollution in major world cities, was deployed in … [Read more...] about ‘54,000 lives lost in Delhi due to air pollution’
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Air taxi startup Joby to go public in $6.6 billion blank-check deal
Joby Aviation, the 12-year-old electric air taxi startup partnered with Toyota Motor Corp and Uber Technologies , will go public in a $6.6 billion reverse merger with blank check company Reinvent Technology Partners, the firms said on Wednesday. California-based Joby aims to begin a commercial passenger service in 2024, using its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Potential air taxi competitors include well-funded German startups Volocopter and Lilium. Joby is being taken public via a special purpose acquisition company ( SPAC ) headed by LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and longtime investor Michael Thompson. In an interview, Hoffman said: "We did months of due diligence and we got the same universal signal. These guys have got everything to redefine this new space . I think of Joby as Tesla meets Uber in the air." Joby is the first aerial vehicle startup to go public via the SPAC route. Reuters reported exclusively in … [Read more...] about Air taxi startup Joby to go public in $6.6 billion blank-check deal
Chinese FM says China-Mongolia relationship enters into fast-track
Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Relations between China and Mongolia have entered into fast-track in recent years with fruitful results gained through practical cooperation, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday. Wang made the remarks in a telephone conversation with the newly-appointed Mongolian Foreign Minister Batmunkh Battsetseg. China attaches great importance to the friendly neighborship with Mongolia, and always puts this relation at a specially significant place in China's neighborhood diplomacy, he noted. This year is historically meaningful for both China and Mongolia as people of each country will respectively greet the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China and Mongolian People's Party, Wang said. Both sides should jointly implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of both countries, promoting greater development of the China-Mongolia comprehensive strategic partnership and bringing about … [Read more...] about Chinese FM says China-Mongolia relationship enters into fast-track
Young Male Skater Hopes to Follow in Kim Yu-na’s Tracks
December 29, 2012 08:22 Olympic champion Kim Yu-na's rise to the pinnacle of world figure skating has spawned a generation of talented young skaters with stars in their eyes. Kim Hae-jin and Park So-youn have both started making it onto the podium at international competitions as they aspire to become the next Kim Yu-na. And now the country has a promising young male skater in the form of 16-year-old Kim Jin-seo, who won a bronze medal at the International Skating Union-sanctioned Junior Grand Prix in Austria in September. As he did not take up figure skating until reaching the sixth grade of elementary school, Jin-seo is considered a late starter. But he proved a fast learner, and as his successes piled up he was selected to the national team after winning the national championships in January. This year he cemented his status as Korea's top-ranked male skater, and earned a berth to compete in the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Japan this coming … [Read more...] about Young Male Skater Hopes to Follow in Kim Yu-na’s Tracks
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