Runup to Interim Budget 2024: It should show a road map for the next 5 to 10 years
The budget needs to recognise the long-term threat to food security from climate change even if it is not an election issue in short term
Towards affordable healthcare in India: ‘Jan Aushadhi’ to ‘Jan Upyogi’
There is a vital need to support and promote this initiative for its sustainability and growth
Modi’s COVID-19 vaccine turnaround: An answer for Supreme Court queries just in time
The bench of judges Chandrachud, Rao and Bhat have already asked the Union government to review the vaccination policy and file an affidavit by …
Is an environmental apocalypse approaching India?
The Union government scarcely conceals its contempt for the environment working assiduously to dismantle environment protection.
New Government’s Agenda: Battle the car bulge
Clean, affordable, integrated and accessible public transport the only solution
New Government’s Agenda: Fix our food
Chemical-dependent farming, lax labelling laws, rising anti-microbial resistance must top the agenda
New Government’s Agenda: Scrap the dump
Disincentivise garbage dumping, invest in behavioural change
New Government’s Agenda: Look beyond dust
Reinvent National Clean Air Programme to focus on fine particulate matter and trans-boundary pollution
New Government’s Agenda: Vision 2030 for India
Economic growth must take into account needs of energy transition, climate mitigation, with action aligned as per India’s 2030 climate goals&…
CoP26: Modi offers ‘Panchamrita’ concoction for climate conundrum at Glasgow
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India will become net zero by 2070
‘India’s unemployment is highest in four decades’
Down To Earth speaks to Binoy Viswam, MP, about the country's unemployment crisis
ICAR to research on, demonstrate and promote natural farming
The directive came within a week of Modi’s speech on the relevance of zero-budget natural farming
New Government’s Agenda: Conserve now
Disregard for biodiversity conservation over the past two decades needs immediate redressal
UP Assembly Elections 2022: Cane prices, arrears will have played big role in first phase voting
The farmers of western UP have been affected by the farmers’ protest and will have voted on the lines of their issues
India’s new climate targets: Bold, ambitious and a challenge for the world
An already low-emitter, India’s new commitments to fight climate change force the historical emitters and China to commit to bolder emission-…
India's 20% ethanol-petrol blending target advanced to 2025
Currently, 8.5% of ethanol is blended with petrol in India
PM at India Energy Week launch: Ethanol blending allowed up to 20% in petrol
Domestically produced ethanol has been identified as an opportunity to reduce oil imports, in an effort to achieve energy independence
Disha Ravi arrest: Being young in India
They have a vast network, not to hatch conspiracies, but to remain informed. They exchange toolkits, not to spread hate mails but to keep up with …
India needs to set a new conservation agenda for mahseer
Historical misidentification, release into wrong areas as well as dam construction, all are imperilling this most iconic of Asia’s …
Solar City Varanasi: Why is PM Modi’s constituency failing to achieve its targets? Think ‘conceptual flaws’
Energy is not just for boosting the economy but for betterment of society and environment for all; this seems to have been forgotten in Varanasi
Despite PM Modi’s assurance, land degradation, desertification increasing
Some 29.7 per cent of India’s land is degraded, according to a new ISRO atlas
COVID-19 underlines medicine interdependency, which is not good: Experts
Countries must come out of global value chain and become self-dependent, they said
Windhoek to Jaipur: It is jet set go time for cheetahs
Three Namibian male and five female adult cheetahs, all between two to five-and-a-half-years-old, will make the 11-hour, transcontinental journey …
Taking off from CoP26: Is Green Grids Initiative the way forward for India?
The implementation of the initiative comes at an increased environmental cost due to waste disposal issues
Beware of a deal with Trump
As the US president comes visiting to India there is worry about the demands he will make on intellectual property