Lightness, warmth, promise to build stronger India together mark much-awaited meeting between PM Modi and Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi ShankarThe Art of Living International Center witnessed a historic gathering on Sunday as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined Gurudev Sri Sri ...
10 May, 2026, 05.11 PM IST
Mission Mausam will make India climate smart: President MurmuPresident Droupadi Murmu praised the government for launching 'Mission Mausam', aimed at making India weather ready and climate smart. With...
31 Jan, 2025, 04.01 PM IST
ITC to enrich biodiversity across 1 million acres by 2030ITC's biodiversity conservation program has restored 290,000 acres of land across 12 states. Additionally, ITC's Integrated Watershed Devel...
14 Jul, 2023, 12.34 PM IST
ITC to go for climate risk modelling for agriculture value chain: Sanjiv PuriSpeaking on the sidelines of a CII event, Puri told reporters: "ITC is trying for a climate risk modelling to identify the hotspots. Then s...
23 Mar, 2023, 08.51 PM IST
Economic Survey 2023: agritech startups raised Rs 6,600 crore funding over last four yearsA report released last month by investment banking firm Avendus Capital pointed out that in the first nine months of 2022, agritech space s...
31 Jan, 2023, 07.32 PM IST
Chalet Hotels becomes first hospitality company globally to join Climate initiativesOver 500 companies globally have joined Climate Group's RE100, EP100 and EV100 initiatives.
21 Sep, 2021, 12.15 PM IST
Smart electricity meters in rural India a win-win: Asian Development BankADB is considering scaling up this project through a proposed second plan, ADB's Yongping Zhai said in a blog.
28 Oct, 2018, 01.26 PM IST
ITC to create over 100 lakh sustainable livelihoods by the year 2030: YC DeveshwarHe said the company in recent past has formed 49 public-private-people partnerships covering areas of national priorities such as watershed...
27 Jul, 2018, 02.28 PM IST
World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva rides Mumbai local, extends $1billion loan“Farmers who don’t even contribute to the climate change are most vulnerable to climatic changes and through these projects we are trying t...
01 Mar, 2017, 01.19 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh plans to develop 1,100 'climate-smart' villagesThe cabinet includes ministers of agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, fisheries, cooperatives, water resources, Narmada valley dev...
30 Dec, 2016, 11.22 AM IST
- Madhya Pradesh plans to develop 1,100 'climate-smart' villages
Madhya Pradesh farmer welfare & agriculture development department principal secretary said 100 villages in each of the 11 agro-climatic zo...
30 Dec, 2016, 09.45 AM IST
How climate-smart agriculture is crucial for India's food security at a time of farm distressTilling involves the digging and overturning of soil to prepare it for farming every season. Zero tillage improves water and nutrient reten...
08 May, 2016, 03.44 PM IST
Climate-smart cultivation reaps profit in NepalFor decades, farmers of this Himalayan nation have been using the dung of their cows and buffaloes as manure. But they had to use pesticide...
23 Oct, 2015, 03.05 PM IST
Experts promote 'climate-smart' villages in tribal areasA study conducted by International Food Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, has revealed that there is a need to develop climate smart vi...
11 May, 2015, 05.21 PM IST
'Smart Farmers of Bihar' use technology to deal with climate changeAbout 95% of farmers from Nayanagar village in Samastipur in Bihar decided not to plant paddy last year as the India Meteorology Department...
02 Feb, 2015, 06.51 PM IST
Samsung to make big investments, LG bullish on business climateGovernment has plan to develop 100 smart cities, as satellite towns of larger cities and by modernizing the existing mid-sized cities.
17 Oct, 2014, 09.33 PM IST
Uttarakhand’s action plan to minimize effects of climate changeThe plan was presented on Tuesday by the State Council for Climate Change to chief secretary Subhash Kumar.
25 Dec, 2013, 12.27 PM IST