India debates ethanol mandates, drawing lessons from Brazil's Proalcool program. Brazil's initial success faced a late 1980s crisis due to ...

Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran warned that offering utilities like water below cost undermines infrastructure, encourages wast...

North America's beaver population faced near extinction due to the fur trade. Fashion changes and conservation efforts allowed their number...

Maharashtra's Chief Minister announced a Rs 48,000 crore waiver for farmer electricity dues. This move facilitates new agricultural power c...

Pro-Palestinian students at Stanford University staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement address. Protesters condemn...

Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has noted that over 1.2 crore families are moving out of poverty and rising to middle-class status d...

Cooperative banks, the CM said, should be stable. Only then could they lend to farmers. “If farmers get timely loans, it will lead to bette...

'Jal Kranti', a brainchild of the Road Transport, Highways and MSME Minister Gadkari, entails excavation or dredging of ponds in drought-pr...

Under MEIS, the government provides duty benefits depending on product and country.

Faced with worst ever drought, the district in Karnataka has desilted historical wells and tanks for the first time in last five decades wi...

BCCI's counsel Rafiq Dada also told the high court that the cricket board is ready to supply over 60 lakh litres of non-potable water to dr...

The 'Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyaan' scheme aims to make 25,000 villages drought-free in 5 years.

Appreciating Prime Minister Narendra Modi for launching 'PM Crop Insurance Scheme', he said the farmers of Chhattisgarh will be benefited o...

Two back-to-back droughts years have made so little impression on the lives and minds of people that they wonder why food prices are up.

Pawar today said he will seek a meeting with Modi to impress upon him the seriousness of drinking water scarcity and drought situation in M...

Terming the project as "model of industrialisation and urbanisation", he said the plan was "very dangerous" from environment perspective to...

Deficiency in rains could also impact food inflation, which has always been a concern to policy makers, it said.