Environment & Ecology

India's trade ministry signalled readiness to cut import duties and, where necessary, curb exports to ensure adequate domestic supply of essential goods amid...

India has made the use of recycled plastic in packaging mandatory, with specific targets for different categories of plastic packaging taking effect from fis...

A new study published ahead of the 2026 summer season finds that India's existing city-level Heat Action Plans (HAPs) are significantly under-prepared for th...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a second meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) on April 1, 2026, to review the impact of the escalating Wes...

An editorial argues that while India must accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels — particularly oil — it must simultaneously ensure that cutting de...

A cabinet-level committee of senior Trump administration officials, informally called the "God Squad," voted to exempt all oil and gas drilling in the Gulf o...

The year in which the NDA government passed legislation to replace MGNREGA saw an 8% decline in the number of families that availed employment under the sche...

Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma announced that Dausa and Karauli districts will now receive daytime electricity for irrigation in two blocks, rais...

The Indian government is accelerating the rollout of electric buses under the PM-eBus Sewa scheme, with a new tender for approximately 3,000 additional e-bus...

UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) has issued an urgent warning that near-paralysis of Strait of Hormuz shipping — transits down ove...

Qdenga (TAK-003), developed by Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda, is positioned as India's first dengue vaccine, with its anticipated launch in 2026 thr...

A study by the Department of Geoinformatics, University of Kashmir, published in the *Journal of Glaciology*, has identified five glacial lakes in Jammu & Ka...

The Secretary of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) stated that India's domestic LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) production is sufficient to ...

Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has officially declared that the 2025–26 La Niña episode has ended, with the tropical Pacific returning to ENSO-neutr...

ACME Cleantech Solutions has signed a ₹20,000 crore Green Ammonia Purchase Agreement (GAPA) with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for a 10-year t...

A study published in the journal Joule on March 31, 2026 finds that the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) — the world's first and largest carbon market — ...

Himachal Pradesh has launched the PEHEL (Pastoralists Empowerment in Himalayan Ecosystems for Livelihood) scheme in its 2026-27 budget, with an allocation of...

Despite years of dedicated funding and policy initiatives, India's air pollution remains among the world's worst, with Delhi and NCR cities recording annual ...

The escalating conflict involving the United States, Israel, and Iran in West Asia has renewed focus on India's structural vulnerability arising from its nea...

India's electric bus market saw robust growth in 2025, with newer pure-play EV manufacturers Switch Mobility and PMI Electro Mobility displacing legacy comme...