Genetically modified food is back in the news after the regulator Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) recommended âenvironmental releaseâ of GM Mustard, billed as an indigenously developed transgenic hybrid or a âswadeshiâ product, on...
The first half of this year has been challenging for RE expansion both at the global level and in India. Supply disruptions in coal and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) owing to the Russia-Ukraine war...
To become a $5 trillion economy by 2025, India is heavily relying on private infrastructure investment across sectors. The government has been rolling out several policies, regulations and tenders to encourage private investments. In...
The report seems to only focus on guilt tripping the judiciary by mechanistically enumerating immediate economic losses owing to the stalling and closures effected by rulings. It is symptomatic of the urge of the...
Indiaâs Protected Areas play a crucial role in preserving our precious biodiversity. India is home to 89,000 species of animals and 46,000 species of plants and nearly half the worldâs aquatic plants. Conservation of...
As progress has come to mean growing accumulation and consumption in material terms, this has led to establishment of ever larger production units, energy harnessing facilities, transport, storage and recreational infrastructure.
Infrastructure Finance Update, May 2022 Infrastructure Finance Updates for the month of May covered the updates from various sectors of roads and highways, seaports, airports, railways, real estate, logistics sectors and Infrastructure Investment Trusts...
As we observed environment day during one of the hottest Indian summers, the near absence of climate change as a civic discourse is alarming. At a time when the world finds itself in the...
Data centres are giant industrial collections of servers that store and process data underlying the modern information economy. Most policies concerning the installation, use and maintenance of data centres ignore an important aspect: their...
We are posting these snippets at a time when the mega yearly rituals of the World Bank and IMF a.k.a the Annual General Meetings, have ended and the balance of payment crisis in Sri...
India is aggressively promoting the growth of renewable energy in its quest to be a global leader on climate action, but it continues to ignore concerns about the social and environmental impacts of promoting...
Infrastructure is considered the backbone of any economy. The impetus on infrastructure sector becomes much more in a growing economy, with the government terming investment in infrastructure âquintessentialâ to boost growth as highlighted in...
Gender mainstreaming (the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels) became popular in several international institutions,...
The project is not economically viable; it will also have social and environmental impacts; instead, the government should look at possible alternatives that balance costs and benefits and have fewer impacts. Big infrastructure projects...