World bodies release new principles on cost-effective carbon pricing schemes

New World Bank Report states that carbon-pricing schemes are worth US $50 billion

Fast-developing nations still home to half of world’s hungry and malnourished people: report

Study also stresses on positive impact of sanitation on nutrition status of children

Public protests hold back growth of tar sands industry in Canada

Tar sands contain more carbon and toxic substances than conventional oil

India less committed to reducing hunger than Nepal or Bangladesh: HANCI report

India ranked 19th among 45 developing countries assessed by UK-based organisation

IEA World Energy Outlook 2023: Fossil fuel demand to peak by 2030, urgent investment shift needed

Report calls for a balancing act, recommends maintaining fossil fuels backing

Debt crisis and gap in affordable climate finance in focus at IMF, World Bank meeting

Spring Meetings 2023 took place from April 10-16, 2023 in Washington DC

Cricket among sports to be hit by climate change: Study

Excess heat, rising sea levels, changes in precipitation may derail global sports

At atom's mercy

A treaty that prevents WHO from reporting on effects of nuclear radiation

Birth control pills have negative effects on aquatic ecosystem, finds study

Synthetic estrogen was found to affect reproductive cycle of fathead minnow

China admits to tiger skin trade at international forum

Around 1,600 tigers have been traded globally since 2000

Feted and forgotten: poster girl of Polio

Rukhshar Khatun is the last child to contract the disease in the country

Kolkata to host parallel AIDS conference after US denies entry to sex workers

Country’s laws do not permit granting visa to those involved in prostitution

FDI in retail: some unanswered questions

Urban consumer may benefit, but what about marginal farmers and the environment?

Government proposes a regulator for public procurement

Legislation codifies rules for all government procurement and purchases

Regional Trade Agreements dividing north-south trade?

India, US tie their first IPR knot

Legal framework can strengthen HIV response: UNDP administrator

Discriminatory policies hamper access to HIV services

Defiant Japan to hold annual whale hunt

Ignores threat from conservation activists who have vowed to disrupt the programme

The new dirty deal

India and US renew environment agreement

Nations endorse nuclear safety plan

India stands firm on the need of nuclear expansion as a clean energy source for future

Half the world’s economic output comes from middle-income countries: UN report

Study said to be the most extensive effort to measure Purchasing Power Parities ever

Bureau of Indian Standards failed to prescribe safety norms for mobile phones, towers: CAG report

Revised radiation limit to be in force from September 1 

Singapore taps its water

The Southeast Asian city-state strives to end its dependence on Malaysia for water

India set to grow biofortified crop

Four states to cultivate iron-rich pearl millet by 2012