Any incident of atrocity is a blot: PM Modi

These include the implementation of a liberalised visa regime, upgradation of trade checkpoint infrastructure at the global border and the Line of Control, and other measures such as bank facilities to further trade that Prime Minister Modi and Prime Minister Sharif have spoken of.

Rijiju said the number of communal incidents in the country in recent years have been 668 in 2012, 823 in 2013 and 644 in 2014. The most important objective of low-lying nations is to find solutions to “loss and damage” caused by climate change and other related environmental issues, he added.

“The responsibility of dealing with communal violence as per the provisions of extant laws rests primarily with the respective state government.”

22 countries took part in the meeting. Mr Modi told the UN meet on climate in Paris that in India wants a comprehensive equitable and durable agreements and underscoring demand of less privileged nations.

So India’s emissions, under its Paris climate pledge, could double.

NTPC, the country’s largest electricity producer with 45 gigawatts of installed capacity, has proposed investing $10 billion in setting up 10 gigawatts of renewables within the next five years. Yet many are also without any source of power.

Asked for his reaction, a senior BJP leader said, “Anyone who understands the way Modi conducts his foreign affairs would realise that he believes in direct diplomacy”.

Rohini Mohan, assistant editor for The Economic Times and author of “The Seasons of Trouble”, explains what we might see from Modi at COP21 and in the future.

A day after world leaders vowed to unitedly fight climate change, negotiators from 195 countries began marathon talks in Paris yesterday to strike a historic agreement. Called “Intended Nationally Determined Contributions”, or INDCs, the plan is built around three elements; a reduction in emissions intensity, or emissions per unit of GDP, an increase in forest cover, and a greater role for renewable energy in power generation.

“The prosperous still have a strong carbon footprint and the world’s billions, at the bottom of the development ladder, are seeking space to grow”.

“The ambition is the one we must bear: to ensure a transfer of technologies and we must also make sure that financing can be put together to ensure the development of renewable energy”.

Apart from this the Prime Minister also attended the Innovation summit held on November 30, 2015, he also held meetings with different heads of states/Governments including the President of United States of America (USA) Barack Obama, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe, and President of France Francois Hollande.

Kids sitting under a solar panel at Dharnai village in India. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a two-day Pakistan-US conference on energy, he jointly inaugurated along with the M inister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the Minister for Power said that the main focus of the government is to plug the energy deficit, using sources that were climate friendly.