Sunita's Bytes on Budget

South Africa to phase in carbon tax from 2015

Tax to increase at 10 per cent per year; draft policy sets relief limits

Mixed signals for vehicles, transportation

SUVs to be expensive but not diesel cars

Banks expand arms, but not through branches

Smart cards, biometric ATMs, mobile phones the new tools

Debt of emerging markets & developing economies rose by 178% from 2008-2022: Report

The Global South is staring at a debt crisis, but the “Common Framework” created to provide debt relief has serious shortcomings

Good scheme in bad health

A little known community monitoring scheme could prove handy for the new government, which is readying to revamp the country's healthcare system

A symbolic budget

While all the right words have been used in the budget, the programmes are neither well thought out nor given sufficient funds

Muted response

Hepatitis C is a growing problem in India, but government has no programme to manage the disease

Mission eclipsed

National solar mission may get derailed as banks hesitate to give loans for its high-risk projects

Up in smoke

National programme on improved chulhas put on ice

World Bank funds for agricultural research

Rural people can now get anganwadis on demand

Solar lighting systems successful in Rajasthan

Commercial breach

News 360° - Briefs

COP28 head calls for ramping up renewables, carbon capture and climate finance

Comments indicate a focus on abatement technologies at Dubai summit over fossil phase-out

G7 sets renewables target, no timeline for fossil fuel phase out

Gas investments and nuclear energy remain in play while urgent action is needed to phase out fossil fuels

Experts hail doubling of cess on 'dirty' coal

Money collected from the cess gets deposited in the National Clean Energy Fund but doubts remain over its usage

Raw Deal

Scepticism hangs over Kerala's Tribal Rehabilitation and Development Mission and its master plan

COP27 diary (November 7): ‘World on a highway to climate hell, with our foot on the accelerator’

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit  

Renewable energy: Investments decline globally

China takes over from Europe as the largest investing region

Include public, fight Naxalites

Planning Commission wants to improve Integrated Action Plan

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants