The Kardashian Factor' and climate change

Climate change continues to drive energy policy, despite the fact that there is no way to reconcile eradicating energy poverty in much of the world with reducing carbon dio...

400 million workers in India have little security, few entitlements

A new report finds that the great majority of labour in India works in one form or the other of informal employment, allowing those who pay them to dodge labour laws. In In...

THE FACTS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

The science is clear: global warming is happening faster than ever and humans are responsible. This is a major problem because global warming destabilizes the delicate bala...

First India-China study on climate to be released

Its impact is likely to come later but the prelaunch report on the first collaborative India-China study on climate change to be released in Beijing on Monday will generate...

3 Screens and The Missing 4th “R”

Screens surround us, and our children.

First of all there is the big screen, with its larger than life images, with its tinsel moorings, colors and the celebrities ...

Adani Foundation bags 3rd Annual Greentech CSR 2013 Award

Chandigarh; 29 January, 2014: Adani Foundation, the CSR arm of Adani group, India’s leading infrastructure player, announced that it has bagged the 3rd Annual Greente...

Odisha Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative Boon for Farmers

Report by Odisha Diary bureau, Bhubaneswar: The state level workshop on Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative (SSI) was successfully organized by Nirman with support from AgSri,...

World Innovation Summit for Health 2013: Obesity is a global public health pandemic

In an obesity report published at the summit today, experts, examined obesity related health problems in eight countries, as well as the economic and social burdens it crea...

Ireland facing national food poverty crisis

After much debate over the Food Security Bill in India, another country that requires such steps to take care of its citizens is Ireland. The crisis in the country has beco...