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India's heat plans are growing, but the real test lies beyond policy: Experts

India, May 12 -- India entered yet another summer marked by record-breaking temperatures with states already recording heat wave conditions. However, even as state governments announce increasingly am... Read More


Cooling appliances now drive India's household electricity use

India, May 12 -- India's household electricity use is being reshaped by soaring demand for cooling. Fans, air conditioners and coolers now consume 40% of residential power. Overall use has nearly do... Read More


Debt crisis deepens gender inequality, puts millions of women's jobs, lives at risk: UNDP

India, May 12 -- Soaring sovereign debt in developing countries is deepening gender inequality. Women are bearing the brunt of job losses, income decline and worsening health, as governments divert b... Read More


Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 8, 2026)

India, May 12 -- NGT bars further dumping and construction at Nehru Park in Kullu after allegations that a public park was being converted into a waste facility. Tribunal seeks responses from Delhi a... Read More


Tourism and human activity are stressing India's tigers, affecting choice of breeding sites: CSIR-CCMB study

India, May 12 -- Tourism and human activity is stressing India's tigers and even affecting choice of breeding sites, according to a worrying new study by the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Bio... Read More


Over 82 million people displaced within their own countries in 2025 as conflict and violence drive global crisis

India, May 12 -- More than 82 million people were internally displaced across 104 countries by the end of 2025, according to the latest IDMC and NRC report. Conflict and violence drove most of the cr... Read More


India drives global coal-based steel expansion as new blast furnace projects rise 5%

India, May 11 -- A total of 319 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of coal-based blast furnace capacity worldwide has either been announced or is under construction, marking a 5 per cent increase over th... Read More


Zero-additive cashew apple beverage provides income to farmers

India, May 11 -- For the last three weeks, a farmer couple in Kasargod, Kerala has started their day by picking the best cashew apples from their five-acre plantation. They choose the ripe apples and ... Read More


Cash transfer development model to continue in Bengal under new government

India, May 11 -- The BJP's first government in West Bengal plans to retain Mamata Banerjee's hallmark cash-transfer welfare model. BJP had earlier criticised of "doles" by TMC government, especially ... Read More


Cameroon's sacred and royal animals: Could literature and futures thinking help save them?

India, May 11 -- In western Cameroon, animals such as leopards, lions, elephants and the Bannerman's turaco are revered as both sacred and royal. But custom demands they be killed and presented to ki... Read More