Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
Utsa Patnaik Our policymakers would rather let food grains rot than feed the poor. What explains the near-comatose lack of response to a long-brewing crisis of increasing hunger? The most valuable resource that a country has is its people. The poor are not a liability, but an asset; they are …
Global goods trade in the first half of 2010 was about 25 percent higher than the same period of the year before, and the value of worldwide merchandise trade grew during the second quarter, according to new data from the WTO secretariat. But the volume of global trade remains well …
IN THE second decade of the 21st century, the environment has found an irredeemable place in the international economic discourse. It was not always like this. In the 1990s, establishment development thinkers accommodated the environment only as an afterthought when it came to countries like India and China because the …
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai September 2, 2010, 0:41 IST Global cereal consumption is set to surpass production for the first time in three years due to the impact of the periodic climatic behaviour known as El Nino, which brought floods in one part of the world and drought on …
This paper examines performance, challenges, and policies in food security in terms of availability, access, and absorption or nutrition. Specifically, the paper addresses the following questions: What is the progress in supply side of food in terms of availability at the national level?; How far has India progressed in attaining …
Express news service Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has reiterated the need to control population even as choosing not to support efforts made during Emergency to achieve the objective. Speaking at a function in Bhopal on Sunday, Chouhan had lauded the efforts made by Sanjay Gandhi during Emergency …
NEW DELHI: Even as innovative and cheaply priced products targeted at India's booming middle class are helping to spur domestic consumption and growth, this segment of the population remains vulnerable to economic shocks and carefully calibrated policy measures will be needed to sustain income gains in the longer-term, the Asian …
The global future lies before us as a highly uncertain and contested landscape with numerous perils along the way. This study explores possible pathways to sustainability by considering in quantitative detail four contrasting scenarios for the twenty-first century. The analysis reveals vividly the risks of conventional development approaches and the …
Efforts are being made to reduce electricity consumption considerably on street lights in urban areas. Jabalpur Municipal Corporation is doing commendable job in this direction. In Jabalpur a most modern electric appliance called Mudra Electromizer is being installed in the area of every feeder. This is expected to reduce the …
The objective of the Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles was to explore ways to engage, exemplify, enable and encourage people, civil society organizations and governments to further sustainability in people's everyday lives. Nine Task Force projects cover activities in 43 countries across every region of the world. The projects covered …
Developing Asia's rapidly expanding middle class is likely to assume the traditional role of the US and Europe as primary global consumers and help rebalance the global economy, says a report on Asia
Using a field survey, this paper examines the empowerment effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on rural women in Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. It argues that women workers have gained from the scheme primarily because of the paid employment opportunity, and benefits have been realised through …
China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. China immediately questioned the report, claiming its calculations were
If you're a typical westerner, you ate nearly 100 kilograms of meat last year. This was almost certainly the costliest part of your diet, especially in environmental terms. The clamour for people to eat less meat to save the planet is growing ever louder. "Less meat = less heat", proclaimed …
THE government has raised the minimum support prices for pulses by up to Rs 700. It is a 15-30 per cent increase over the previous year. The government also promised an incentive of Rs 5 per kg if farmers sell black gram, green gram and pigeon pea to procurement agencies …
A vast amount of research has asked how and why the growth rates in the Indian economy have risen in recent decades. Implicit in much of that literature is the belief that if the growth rate has increased it must be because something underlying has changed – had some parameters …
