6 years on, Maharashtra has no climate-change action plan

Even as rural areas in otherwise drought-hit regions of Maharashtra (as also in neighbouring areas of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh) struggle to cope with imme...

Nations must allocate more resources to end poverty: WB

Countries such as India, which accounted for nearly a third of the people living in poverty globally, needed to complement efforts to enhance growth with policies that allo...

Kashmir loses Rs18 cr agri crop to bad weather

Srinagar, Apr 10: The continued bad weather this season has caused an estimated Rs 18 crore loss to agriculture sector in Kashmir.

A report prepared by Chief Agricu...

Blossoming forth with hope

Gemfields and Nanhi Kali launch Project Blossoming to help support a noble cause It was a landmark day in the history of Indian jewellery when ten of India’s leading ...

Bandra’s street art: Bollywood on the walls

Mumbai and Bollywood are synonymous with one another for many people. I have lost track of the number of times people have only wanted to talk about films and Bollywood wit...

Viral diseases to surge in coming years due to climate change, report says

US scientists have warned India of increased incidence of infectious and vector-borne diseases in coming years due to climate change. According to a report on climate chang...

Climate change report: reactions to the final instalment of the IPCC analysis

The final UN report on climate change was released today. We round up some of the reactions from business to academia Solar power plant at Sanlucar la Mayor, Spain.

Soil health movement restoring agriculture

Farmers started the soil health movement that Ray Archuleta, a conservation agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Greensboro, N.C., sees as the solu...

Gajra Kottary: A Woman Of Substance

“Neither yours nor mine, all the world’s children are ours. Let us give every child what she deserves and help build her today and our tomorrow.”...