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Cost and time over-runs have reportedly led to losses of approximately Rs29,000 crore in the DRDO; some 10 projects have been delayed for over five years. The Armed Forces continue to be woefully short of modern weapon systems, ammunition and a vast range of critical equipment.
Is green tax an answer for a cleaner India? The author contemplates if taxation is an answer
By 2030, only 77 percent are expected to have clean cooking fuel, leaving 1.9 billion with traditional sources of fuels
By demonstrating cleantech’s potential to catalyse climate action and forging international partnerships around technological innovation, India is a
क्लाइमेट एक्शन को उत्प्रेरित करने में क्लीनटेक (Cleantech) की क�
There is possibility of active policy interventions. What is needed is international collaboration with an aim to achieve development goals.
The use of digital twin technologies in renewable energy ecosystems will benefit producers, consumers, and governments alike
The emergence of this new grouping is clearly an outcome of the Abraham Accords of Aug 2020 and the possibilities that they have created for Israel and the UAE to be on the same platform with India and the US. As President Biden moves to Saudi Arabia for the second leg of his visit to West Asia, we are likely to see a push towards integrating Israel through trade, technology, direct flights and people-to-people contact even with countries where f
The increase in share of usage of cleaner and cleanest cooking technology from the baseline has to be one of the criteria to define success of the cle
Increasing women’s participation in the skilled labour force has enormous potential for India’s sustainable transition towards clean energy
Pursuing a transition to cleaner cooking fuels could help achieve long-term goals of an environmentally sustainable economy, social inclusion, and emp
The NIF experiment has opened up a new avenue for achieving nuclear fusion. India should invest in it since it can help India achieve its net-zero car
ULBs can effectively contribute to and accelerate India’s cleantech system only if a proper financial framework is put in place
A stronger focus on SDGs in the context of soft power and trade enhancement will be one of the major drivers of Sino-Indian partnership in the near fu
Due to various policy initiatives undertaken by the Rwandan government, Kigali has now emerged as the cleanest city in Africa.
Goal seven of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) commits the international community to providing access to clean cooking fuels and technologies to all by 2030. Progress has been slow, however, and in about 40 of the UN’s 189 member countries for which data is available, more that 80 percent of the populations continue to lack such access. Using case studies, this brief analyses the role of a country’s policies, i
This paper creates an index to track the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation) across India’s states. The SDG 6 index incorporates both supply-side indicators and demand management variables, as well as institutional interventions. In this paper, state-wise indices are constructed to identify their respective performances in the domains of access to clean water and provision of sanitation facilitie
Water has entered the turf of a verbal war between political parties serving the purposes of egotistic claims, rather the serving the people's cause.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s masterstroke through demonstisation aiming to choke the cash channels of black money seems to have many positive cons
What India needs to understand is that legislation or institutions by themselves do not bring about social change. Countries of Europe or the United States, too, had a history of political corruption. But over the years they have cleaned up their act considerably because of popular sentiment, as well as institutions and laws.
India's de-hyphenation policy in West Asia has been instrumental in sustaining bilateral ties with Israel.
Diverging interests have placed France and Germany at odds. Would the Franco-German partnership help steer Europe out of its current crisis?
In India, the line separating social cost and benefit from private benefit and cost is blurred, leading to less than ideal outcomes for both citizens
The Global South needs to drive the just transition discourse further to make it more inclusive and move from words to deeds.
Both the countries are eager to start off with a clean slate by working towards rebuilding amicable ties
For both India and the EU, strong bilateral ties rooted in close cooperation on green transition, digital transformation, and maintenance of the geopo
To create a world-class clean energy ecosystem in India that is safe, all stakeholders must work collectively to develop all critical components and a
In healthcare, one of the main rudimentary elements is health education which is lacking in India. Hygiene and cleanliness are very important as is emphasised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and if basic habits like washing hands before eating are inculcated in the people, a lot of diseases could be prevented.
India’s power sector requires sustained efforts to achieve the power generating capacity target of approximately 1.2 terawatts by 2047. It needs such capacity to meet the demands of economic growth and achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 7 of providing universal electricity access. At the same time, the country also needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to meet commitments to global climate action agreements. This paper revi
Adapting a more multi-dimensional framework for measuring energy access that could capture gender disaggregated data and indicators would push for a m
Processing bio-waste to bio-fuels and compost will enhance clean energy energy access as well as improve soil fertility.
China's export of cheap clean energy equipment is a public good as relatively poor countries can now afford large clean energy projects
