Amendments to China's 1989 environmental protection law that will mean stiffer punishments for polluters have been submitted to the country's parliament for deliberation, official news agency Xinhua reported
Predicts no more than 6.5% yearly from now till FY19, and only with a stable and decisive govt Analytical firm CRISIL Research said on Sunday it expected the economy to grow by 6.5 per cent yearly, on an average, from 2014-15 to 2018-19 — roughly the period of the next government if it lasts a full term. This is way down from the nine per cent annual growth rate from 2003-04 to 2010-11, briefly snapped by the global financial crisis of 2008-09, it said.
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Sounding bullish about India, International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects country's economic growth to move up to 5.5 per cent in the current fiscal and 6.25 per cent in the next fiscal. "Our sense is
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
