UK-India partnership is about strategic partnership and not just about buying and selling transaction" said Lord Stephen Green, Minister for Trade and Investment, UK at the ‘UK -India: Next steps towards greater partnerships’, a conference jointly org...

Asking developed countries to enhance their greenhouse gas emission reduction targets is "filibustering" and not a goal worth pursuing, environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh told the top UN climate official at a meeting in February in Delhi.Rames...

In an unprecedented move in 2008, the 46-nation nuclear cartel, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), granted a crucial waiver to India enabling it to carry out nuclear commerce and ended 34 years of India’s isolation from the international mainstream in t...

Lack of original thinking in agriculture sector is a big drawback in our country.The latest World Bank Report on India, “Undernourished children - a call for reform and action,” finds the number of underweight children in India is among the highest in...

The stock market has been volatile for a while now. At the same time, the interest rates have been moving up, making debt instruments more attractive. The recent Reserve Bank of India (RBI) policy review also underscores that the interest rates are likely...

When Abhishek Humbad, 24, and Richa Bajpai bootstrapped their carbon consulting firm NextGen PMS Pvt. Ltd with an initial investment of Rs.25,000 in 2009, they knew that they would be competing against the likes of PricewaterhouseCoopers Llp and Ernst and...

Water is currently a source of some tension between India and Nepal but could become the greatest asset to the relationship if a more confident, respectful and cooperative approach is engineered by the two governments.India's ever-increasing energy requir...

The effort to ensure long-term financing to address climate change is expected to be a key issue at the year-end UN climate conference to be held at Durban in South Africa. At Cancun, it was agreed that a climate fund would be set up and South Africa woul...

DP World’s Nava Sheva terminal at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai has won the Golden Peacock Award for Environment Management.At an awards ceremony held in New Delhi, the marine terminal was recognised for its many initiatives in environment managem...

Asia's urban future is one of opportunity. Urbanisation, well-managed, is a chance to put our development paradigm on the right track – on a track that will result in inclusive and sustainable development for Asia and the Pacific. However, keeping to th...

A European Union-supported scheme to introduce adaptive small-scale farming systems in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, is expected to benefit around 1,000 farmers in Nepal.The project was launched on June 25. “Research and dissemination of improved agricul...

Growing global demand for more and cleaner water is sapping energy, throwing a focus on efficiency for example in world farming sector trying to feed more people, said a study published in the journal Nature.Concerns have grown about scarcity of food, wat...

Global warming has led to many plants blooming ever earlier and also before honey bees emerge from hibernation, leading to fears of a long-term decline in pollination.A combined research group centred at Munich's Technical University (TU) has carried out ...

April 26, 2011 marked the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. To commemorate this day and spread awareness about the human cost of nuclear disasters, Greenpeace India organised a photography exhibition in Mumbai. The photographs showcas...

Over the years the Indian economy has undergone a structural change in its sectoral composition: from a primary agro-based economy during 1970s, the economy has emerged as predominant in the service sector since the 1990s. This structural change and uneve...

Bilateral relations between India and Europe, dates back to 1960s when India was among the first nations to establish relations with what’s now the European Union (EU). The EU is India’s single largest trading partner and accounts for over 20 percent ...

The first signs of Jairam Ramesh easing his stand on the `go no-go' policy came on Thursday with the Union environment minister clearing three coal block projects in the dense forests of Hasdeo-Arand region of Chhattisgarh against the repeated recommendat...

Dr H P Singh, deputy director-general, horticulture, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), was conferred with the lifetime achievement award for his 39 years of contribution to the field of horticultural research by the Society for Development o...

India is facing increasing energy challenge as a result of increasing urbanization and growing urban-rural divide. Energy security and access are two critical issues that define the policy landscape in power sector, while environmental sustainability agen...

At a time when public spending is being slashed in every direction, British aid to India has become a political embarrassment. Again and again you hear it: why on earth are we still giving money to people who live inside one of the world’s most dynamic ...