Responding to a query in the Rajya Sabha, the environment ministry said that more than three lakh hectares...
Feb 06, 2022
India Gets Two More Ramsar Sites, But Will They Help With Conservation?
India has the highest number of, and area under, Ramsar wetlands in South Asia. On World Wetland Day,...
Feb 04, 2022
Budget Decrease or Near-Stagnation in Some Health Sector Domains Surprises Experts
New Delhi: The health sector has been allocated only Rs 200 crore more this year as compared to...
Feb 02, 2022
The Winners and the Losers of Union Budget 2022
The Union Budget for financial year 2022-23 comes at the tail end of the COVID-19 third wave driven...
Feb 01, 2022
India Will Lose 101 Billion Labour-Hours a Year to Global Warming’s Effects
India will lose 101 billion work-hours a year to the effects of global warming, according to a new...
Jan 31, 2022
What the Economic Survey’s ‘Refined’ Core Inflation Tells us About Fuel Price Rise
For the past one and a half years, the Indian economy has been roiled by the spectre of...
Jan 31, 2022
As Budget 2022 Looms, Concerns Around Manufacturing, Jobs and Wages Persist
Underpinning the crisis of rampant unemployment besieging the Indian economy is the struggle of the Narendra Modi government...
Jan 25, 2022
New Draft NCR Regional Plan Dilutes Protection for Green Cover in the Aravalli
The NCR regional plan guides government policy in ‘developing’ India’s NCR region. A new draft plan for the...
Jan 20, 2022
India’s New ‘State of Forest’ Report Is Not Really About Forests
India’s 17th ‘State of Forest’ report, prepared by the Forest Survey, said the country’s forest and tree cover...
Jan 16, 2022
New ‘State of Forest’ Report Says India’s Forest Cover Has Increased Again
Environment minister Bhupendra Yadav released the 2021 ‘State of Forest’ report, compiled by the Forest Survey, on January...
Jan 13, 2022