The New Oil Rush: Nations scramble for minerals critical to clean energy

As a bitter battle ensues between China and the rest of the world to control rare earth minerals, can India secure its place in this new energy order?

Footpaths for pedestrians: Will these hurdles be cleared?

The Supreme Court recently ordered that all footpaths in Delhi be made free of any kind of encroachment. Here are a few ways residents have made …

Encouraging orphan drugs in India

India needs to formulate an atrractive law to spur development of drugs for rare diseases

EPCA comes out with parking management plan for Delhi

In report, agency flags free parking on public land, multiplicity of agencies to be key cause of congestion and parking menace

Restrain parking demand for clean air

Pull the parking levers and make the vehicle users pay the right price to restrain insatiable demand for parking and to control congestion and …

Here is how demand aggregation can improve rooftop solar installation in India

Demand aggregation can address the main challenges to RTS deployment — low end-user awareness & increased consumer acquisition price …

Privacy vs pandemic: Govt tracking of mobile phones could be a potent weapon against COVID-19

Do we want governments to assemble a searchable database of locations of almost every citizen 

You are buying your baby a bag full of misinformation

India's population: Every addition to the optimum level is a burden on the state

Message should go to people that if they think in the interest of the state, the state will take care of them as well

Trade in good food can end global hunger: report

Food regulation should be such that that healthy food is protected, not just food in general, says a new report 

UNESCO bats for more AI in Indian education; Will it work?

UN body recommends ethical, responsible use of artificial intelligence for quality education, experts point to digtal divide

Will the Bill on Electricity Amendment change the power sector for the better?

Distribution companies in India have long been known as loss-making entities

National Education Policy 2020: What is needed is a new kind of thinking

New educational institutions will not thrive in an old culture. They need an environment of trust and freedom

Simply Put: Forest Act revision

India develops first indigenous vaccine to treat bloody dysentry

Shigellosis is recognised as a disease mainly affecting Asian and African nations

Simply put: Forest dwellers face eviction?

New energy conundrum

As countries reconcile their energy supply options with climate change, will they reinvent the fossil fuel-based system or reinvest in it?

Renewable energy sources defeating coal, says report

Lenders prefer renewable energy over coal, especially in 2018: Centre for Financial Analysis Report Coal Vs Renewable

Timeline of an unwarranted act: How India has legislated on forests

Does independent India's first amendment to the Indian Forest Act reflect the changes in forest policy?

EV industry can reshape Indian employment landscape with green jobs, but building a skilled workforce is key

Industry could generate 10 million direct jobs, 50 million indirect ones by 2030; Can take examples from China and Germany

US food labels will now display calories per serving and for entire product

Change in accordance with new FDA rules, intended to make consumers aware

‘Online nutrition tracker to promptly plug service gaps’

Down To Earth talks to the project lead of Nutrition Surveillance System

Simply put: Odd-Even

US Department of Energy announces breakthrough in nuclear fusion, sets path to clean energy source

Stepping stone to clean energy; Commercialisation of nuclear fusion technology still decades away

Telangana’s new forest conflict panels bring Centre-state land rights relation under scanner

FRA empowers Gram Sabhas and the committees headed by the sub collectors and the district collectors to determine and recognise the forest rights …