Bond, green bond

India has finally entered the green bond market, but at a time when the bonds are not doing well globally. Have we missed the bus?

Setting up shop

First, the government shook scientific institutions out of their lethargy by applying the brake on funds. Now, its asking them to tie up with …

Sullying the seas

An oil spill pollutes 500 km of the French coast. It takes three weeks and public pressure for the guilty company to accept responsibility

Book review: Panchayats, democracy and development

In 1992 the Indian Parliament approved of the 73rd constitutional amendment, which made it mandatory for state governments to devolve powers to …

Report: Face financial risk - Ignore climate change

A 2003 report, Carbon Finance and the Global Equity Markets, identifies changing climate due to rising global average temperature as one of the …

Sick berth

The Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre has done little for the long-term treatment of gas victims

PM Modi: Climate action ambitions must match with action on climate finance

Calls for democratising climate action in a blog article

Who said what and pledged how much

Funds flowing

A Tughlakian folly

Interlinking rivers is politically unwise, ecologically destructive and financially unviable

COP27: Adaptation pledge sum 35% less than Glasgow, despite UN call for more support

Forty per cent of adaptation fund pledged in Glasgow not yet met 

COP27: Developing & developed blocks lock horns over new climate finance roadmap

Wealthy nations want to expand the donor base with New Collective Quantified Goal

‘States that use less must get less’

Standing committee makes allocation of tribal funds conditional

Making it mandatory

Growth of R&D

CHINA

Helping hand

GAP II CLEARED

Local flavour

In new conservation recipe

Devolution suffers setback

India's decentralisation process receives yet another blow

100 per cent FDI in housing

Will Maharashtra boom or boomerang?

Revamp, really?

Government juggles with data to rehash Northeast India's industrial policy

Government to boost scientific research

Government to re-introduce tax breaks for hotels, hospitals

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