India will have to manage its relationships with China and Japan with greater finesse. China constitutes by far our most difficult diplomatic challenge as its rise impacts us directly in view of its t ...More

Nothing would do more to ensure America's security and stimulate more jobs than a national clean energy standard Thomas L. Friedman President Obama delivered his most important national security an ...More

ROPAR: Finally, there is a technology to put an end to the environmentally disastrous practice of stubble burning, that the government has shown little urgency about tackling. Jointly developed by ...More

North India is among the few regions identified as hotspots vulnerable to extreme climate changes that could lead to drop in agricultural production and pose risks of severe ecosystem shifts, says a s ...More

The region has huge untapped economic potential, says Mauritius Minister Countries of the Indian Ocean region will come together on Thursday in picturesque Mauritius for their first-ever meeting a ...More

India has been and will continue to be a strategic partner of the US, an American official said today, asserting that Secretary of State John Kerry is looking forward to continuing the positive bilate ...More

India and Mauritius will co-host a ministerial level economic and business conference (EBC) in that country July 4-5. The conference is titled 'Deepening Economic Linkages for Balanced, Inclusive and ...More

Bengaluru: It was not a torrential downpour which triggered the catastrophe in Kedarnath valley, claiming the lives of hundreds of pilgrims on June 16 and 17. For, images beamed by satellites of Nati ...More

BANGALORE: A 400-year-old temple survived the Himalayan tsunami but a 21st century building did not. That's how Prof J Srinivasan, head of Divecha Centre for Climate Change at the Indian Institute of ...More

The Obama administration has shifted from its original, unconditional stand of technology transfer to one based on “innovation” and “investment” in clean energy to favour western companies Last week ...More

The geographical and climatic diversity of India is the reason for its varied flora and fauna, but the number of species falling under IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species is increasing owing to ramp ...More

The tragedy that continues to unfold is a potent reminder that 'development' is not an either/or paradigm, pitting industrialisation against the environment. Pretending it is so will devastate India’s ...More

The frog that doesn’t croak is a bit like the dog that didn’t bark— the silence has meaning; especially now, with most of the country covered by the monsoon. In most of India’s cities, the sound of fr ...More

The view that low-carbon development was expensive is out of date, British Minister for Energy and Climate Change Gregory Barker told a FICCI audience British Minister for Energy and Climate Change G ...More

The Pakistani army is the key player in the Afghan theatre. Every few years, foreign policy establishments in Washington and London get down to brass-tacks and try to find answers to the perennial in ...More

Himachal Pradesh’s policy of promoting mega hydropower projects is being implemented in fragile and eco-sensitive zones without assessing the cumulative impact of the projects, said environment activi ...More

Researchers have ruled out climate change as the cause of extinction of most of Australia's giant animals, including giant kangaroos, three metre-tall flightless birds and the Tasmanian tiger, around ...More

One in 10 people around the world will live in a place where climate change is damaging at least two major sectors such as crop yields, water, ecosystems or health, said an international study today. ...More

“The Himalayas are sick and will die unless there is massive forestation and a moratorium of at least ten years on tree felling. And if they die, the country will surely die in a chain of natural di ...More

Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who is also minister for infrastructure and transport, will take on the broadband, communications and the digital economy portfolio vacated by key Gillard suppo ...More