CHINA

Helping hand

GAP II CLEARED

Local flavour

In new conservation recipe

Devolution suffers setback

India's decentralisation process receives yet another blow

Funds flowing

A Tughlakian folly

Interlinking rivers is politically unwise, ecologically destructive and financially unviable

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

News Snippets

G8 push for climate funds

Fund crunch hits Mumbai Metro

Development authority insists project on course

‘Inaction of leaders led me to protest’: 12-year-old Manipuri activist shares her story after COP28 protest

Teachers and first-hand experience of facing weather extremes pushed the girl into activism  

Climate finance goal of $100 billion close to achievement, but still not met, shows OECD report

The goal may have been met in 2022, says OECD, but based on “preliminary and as yet unverified data”  

Adaptation Gap Report 2022 raises alarm on climate finance

International adaptation finance flows are 5-10 times lower than required

Bonn climate conference: Glasgow ‘colonial’ pact shifts burden of climate change to developing countries, say parties

Inadequate climate finance among the biggest challenges for developing countries bloc

COVID-19 stimulus: Coal auctioning move along the lines of January ordinance

The Centre had relaxed norms required for mining and sale of coal in January 2020

Shift health to concurrent list: Expert group to Finance Commission

Activists voice concern about some recommendations by panel

UNCCD CoP: Centre unclear how states are spending money allotted for forests

The 14th Finance Commission had given 7.5 per cent weightage to forest cover

Not a promissory note

Demonetisation casts a long shadow over the rural economy

Cabinet approves country's first IPR policy

The policy is expected to lay the future roadmap for intellectual property in India

Governors in the dock

They turn a blind eye to laws overriding tribal rights, complains national commission

Food as carrot

In a world where corporate gains feed on hunger and poverty, could food be a human right?