Centre launches bio-toilets to curb open defecation
Around 100,000 toilets to be built in next two years in 300 gram panchayats
Cabinet approves setting up of National Investment Board
Is renamed Cabinet Committee on Investment and will be headed by prime minister
National Water Policy, 2012 silent on priorities
Draft document gives industry implicit priority over agriculture in water allocation
Can the National Water Policy do away with priorities?
"Solar power tariff will soon fall to Rs 1.50 per unit"
Bringing affordable solar power on the doorsteps of common citizens and enabling Universal Energy Access seem to be the guiding force behind the …
The real weed
The WHO says it causes cancer and studies link it to many diseases. Countries have been struggling to ban or restrict its use. But a new movement …
BRSR disclosure pathway to green companies: Indian industry lobby at CoP26
BRSR is a standardised reporting format that will give a baseline to draw comparison between environmental, social and governance goals …
Regulate online sale of drugs in India, say experts
Indian Medical Association warns that data generated from online visits and sale could be sold to other websites or hospitals
India has a failed salvation policy on the not-so-holy buffalo
India’s only scheme to leverage the expanding buffalo meat exports has been in doldrums. To make it work, the government must first get rid …
Irresponsible gaps in corporate social responsibility
Over 6,000 companies are required to spend on corporate social responsibility. But two-thirds have defaulted and there is no penalty
Number of crop pests have increased seven-fold, says industry report
Almost 20 per cent of world’s agricultural production is lost because of post-harvest pest attacks, says joint report of FICCI and Tata …
Stop forceful land acquisition for Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor project, say farmers of Raigad
They want state to follow the proposed land acquisition Bill likely to be passed soon by Parliament