Smog-hit China is set to pass a new law that would give Beijing more powers to shut polluting factories and punish officials, and even place protected regions off-limits to industrial development, scholars
Even as industrial output is hitting new lows every passing month, India Inc is belatedly waking up to a major environmental clearance deterrent that is jeopardizing greenfield and brownfield investments
Prof. N.H. Ravindranath at the Centre of Ecological Sciences, IISc, Bengaluru, and one of the lead authors of the last of the three IPCC working group reports focusing on mitigating climate change maintains
Controlling inflation , reviving growth by boosting manufacturing, infrastructure and farm productivity are the primary areas of concern The finance ministry is preparing an outline for the next phase
The Philippines Monday announced plans to spend more on infrastructure and introduce other reforms to try to lift millions out of poverty. The revised Philippine Development Plan sets more ambitious
Landmark UN analysis concludes global roll-out of clean energy would shave only a tiny fraction off economic growth Catastrophic climate change can be averted without sacrificing living standards according
Status check of 5 projects which could help the economy beat the slowdown blues and earn brownie points for the new government Whatever be the political coalition that comes to power at the Centre after
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 allocated more resources to the extreme
The private sector strongly feels India is a difficult place to do business due to too many regulations, World Bank president Jim Young Kim said Thursday, calling for necessary reforms to create a better
The Punjab government on Thursday has approved two development schemes of Education and Energy Sectors with an estimated cost of Rs. 16,029.913 million. These schemes were approved in the special meeting
