IIM Bangalore Convocation 2024: IIM Bangalore conducted its 49th convocation ceremony on April 6, 2024. A total of 706 students from various programmes were awarded their degrees, including eight gold medals.
IIM Bangalore has introduced the Institute Research Award for a graduating student of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programme, which includes a cash prize of INR 1.75 lakh, certificate and memento
Global leaders pledge to protect nature at the UN Biodiversity Summit
The world's biodiversity is in a more precarious state than ever before. (Photo: Getty Images)Premium
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“Humanity is waging a war against nature," said the UN Secretary General António Guterres during his opening remarks at the United Nations Biodiversity Summit on 30 September. That is the unalloyed truth, as recent reports on the state of the planet’s biodiversity have borne out. We have also seen this play out in real time, with the annual cataclysmic fires in California, the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic Circle. As world leaders gathered by video conferencing to pledge to protect nature, and look forward to the UN Biodiversity Conference to be held in Kunming, China, in May 2021, the message on the state of the world was quite dire.
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