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Highlighting the need for urgent climate action, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Synthesis Report for the Sixth Assessment Cycle on March 20 in Interlaken, Switzerland. The report emphasised the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
Read Online Download Pdf fileThe Kerala government recently announced the State’s first waste-to-energy project in Kozhikode. The planned facility is expected to be built in two years and generate about 6 MW of power. There are around 100 waste-to-energy...
Read Online Download Pdf fileMonuments are memories etched in stone. Post Independence, there was little effort to correct the mindset of those responsible for writing history books, who continued to think about monuments and archaeological sites in the British way and taught the history of our...
Read Online Download Pdf fileInfrastructure in emerging economies has taken on aspects of a magic bullet. It simultaneously works as a national aspiration good, a barometer of national progress, a mechanism for job creation, a vehicle for crowding in private investment, and more. Infrastructure...
Read Online Download Pdf fileBhutan, the mountainous, landlocked country that is consistently ranked one of the happiest in the world, will on December 13th of this year, become the seventh nation to graduate from the United Nations’ (UN) list of Least Developed Countries (LDC). While this...
Read Online Download Pdf fileIn 2022, heavy rain, floods and landslides claimed 835 lives in the country, according to the Statement of Climate of India 2022 released by the India Meteorological Department. With a steady rise in the number of extreme weather events, especially heavy rainfall...
Read Online Download Pdf fileThe Union Budget 2023 has doubled the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan to States from ?5,000 crore to ?10,000 crore, and has announced an outlay of ?2.4 lakh crore for the Indian Railways. The plan is a “transformative approach for economic growth and...
Read Online Download Pdf fileThe decision of the Government of India to suspend the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) licence of the country’s premier think tank, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) is bad in optics and substance. The reasons that are being cited by the...
Read Online Download Pdf fileLarge-scale destruction of forests has always been a concern for the environment, but with climate change, deforestation has become a critically sensitive issue globally in recent years. Forests absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide that is emitted in various economic...
Read Online Download Pdf fileMarch 3 is known as World Wildlife Day (WWD), marked annually to draw attention to issues of conservation of flora and fauna. The WWD site states, “This year, the theme is ‘Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation’. It will allow us to...
Read Online Download Pdf fileOn February 22, the National Stock Exchange of India received the final approval from the markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to set up a Social Stock Exchange (SSE). Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting the...
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