In popular perception, growing more trees, burning less fossil fuels, and switching to renewable energy sources are the most widely understood ways of checking global warming and climate change. However, what is less obvious is the crucial role that cities will have
Nudged into action by the 2015 Paris Accord on Climate Change, many countries (though not all) have begun to work on preparing initial plans to achieve carbon neutrality to limit global warming. While India was late to get off the block, it
While the investor and business communities have approved of the Budget’s raising of capital expenditure, compressing the fiscal deficit and slightly hiking the disposable income of the middle class with income tax adjustments, abjectly poor India has little to cheer about. The
Considerable attention was paid by the Indian media to the grim finding of the latest Living Planet report that global wildlife populations had dropped by 69% over the past half-century. However, what did not catch its eye was another equally worrying part
India’s overall trade deficit—merchandise and services—witnessed an exponential jump of a whopping 250% at $87 billion in the first half of the current fiscal compared to the same period last year when it amounted to $24.86 billion. Net gains of the services
India is no stranger to railways being carried up steep hilly slopes with three such 19th-century rail projects finding a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List. When steam locomotion was combined with rails in the first third of the 19th century
Tall promises have been made in recent months by top leaders about reversing global warming within the next half-century. Any roadmap to reach this goal must have two crucial components: monitoring and action, in that order. Ever since the watershed 1992 Rio
Extreme weather, the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns in China, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine combined this year to distort global supply chains and send prices soaring. High inflation is troubling because rising prices erode purchasing power and add to input costs. In 2022,
In March this year, headline managers of the government went to town to the sound of the proverbial drumbeats and with considerable backslapping, announcing that in 2021-22 a total of 7,422 crore (74.22 billion) digital transactions were carried out—a 33% increase over
The latest Air Quality Life Index by the Energy Policy Institute of University of Chicago has found air pollution to be one of the biggest health threats for India. Toxic air pollutants are reducing life expectancy by five years in the country, with pollution
