Environment & Ecology

India's Ministry of Heavy Industries issued an advisory to the automobile industry on March 25, 2026, urging companies to optimise production, shift factory ...

A new study published in the journal Science analysed over 1,000 genomes of Anopheles darlingi — South America's primary malaria vector — from 16 locations a...

India's electricity demand in January 2026 reached 143 billion units (BU) — the highest January demand in 16 years — while peak demand touched 245.4 GW, a fi...

India has pledged to achieve 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based electricity capacity by 2030, a commitment made at COP26 (Glasgow, 2021) and enshrined in its up...

Reliance Industries, operator of the world's largest private refinery complex at Jamnagar, Gujarat, publicly refuted reports that it had purchased Iranian cr...

A global initiative has marked significant steps to curb Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, highlighting progress under international framew...

A new report titled "Revisiting Single Use Plastic Ban" by Toxics Link — a New Delhi-based environmental research and advocacy organisation — found that bann...

ICICI Bank's Economic Research Desk released a report on March 26, 2026 revising India's FY27 GDP growth forecast downward to 6.9%, from its earlier projecti...

The Iranian Embassy in New Delhi posted, then deleted, messages on X (formerly Twitter) thanking the "kind people of Kashmir" and India for humanitarian supp...

Israel's Defence Minister announced that Alireza Tangsiri, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, was killed in an overnight pre...

Following the introduction of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, a detailed analysis of its two most consequential ...

The scrutiny of nomination papers for the 2026 General Elections to Legislative Assemblies of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and the Union Territory...

Ladakh recorded its warmest winter in years during 2025-26, with the average temperature in Leh rising to -2.3°C, approximately 2°C above the long-term histo...

India's carbon dioxide emissions grew by approximately 0.7% in 2025 — the slowest annual increase in more than two decades, excluding the anomalous drop duri...

A study on Chennai's beach sediments reveals that despite a relatively low mean microplastic abundance of 30.13 ± 3.13 MPs/kg, the ecological risk assessment...

A new climate study warns that the Cauvery river faces a "near-term decline" of approximately 3.5% of its water volume between 2026 and 2050, even as norther...

The Madras High Court issued 34 detailed directions on March 18, 2026 for the eradication of Prosopis juliflora — commonly known as seemai karuvelam or vilay...

The Union Cabinet approved India's new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the period 2031–2035, to be submitted to the UNFCCC under the Paris Agree...

A feature article examines how the discovery of oil in the Persian Gulf region — and the subsequent industrial buildup — fundamentally altered one of the wor...

The Union Cabinet approved India's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) for the period 2031–2035 on March 25, 2026, to be communicated to the UNFCCC unde...