Intel appoints Santhosh Viswanathan as India region head
Chip maker Intel on Friday said that it appointed Santhosh Viswanathan to head the India region business as its Managing Director (MD).
US Secretary of State John
Kerry on Wednesday mentioned India thrice in his speech at a global climate meet
— highlighting its growing investments in renewable technologies, draughts and
growing pollution.
Speaking at the UN Climate
Conference here, Kerry said: “Now, significantly the renewable energy boom
isn’t limited to industrialized countries, and that’s important to note.”
“In fact, emerging
economies like China, India, and Brazil invested even more in renewable
technologies last year than the developed world,” he said in his 45-minute
address to the media, where scientists and international delegates were also
present.
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“China alone invested
more than $100 billion. Ultimately, clean energy is expected to be a
multitrillion dollar market – the largest market the world has ever known.”
Expressing concern over
global climatic conditions, Kerry, who has attended every major United Nations
climate change summit since 1992, said: “We have seen record-breaking
droughts everywhere — from India to Brazil to the west coast of the US.”
“Storms that used to
happen once every 500 years are becoming relatively normal. In recent years, an
average of 22.5 million people have been displaced by extreme weather events
annually. We never saw that in the 20th century,” said the Secretary of
State.
Sounding an alarming note, he
said there are nearly 20 million new asthma cases a year in India linked to
coal-related air pollution.
“In the US, asthma costs
taxpayers more than $55 billion annually. The greatest cause of children being
hospitalised in the summer in the US is environmentally induced asthma,”
said Kerry, who also talked abo ut his last week’s trip to Antarctica where
scientists alarmed at the fast-changing climatic trends.
He also blamed coal-fired
power plants in China for pollution.
In 2014, a study found that
up to six million people in China have black lung because they lived and worked
so close to coal-fired power plants, Kerry added.
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