Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy inaugurated a new fruit market and sub-registrar office complex. He criticized the central governmen...

Senior IAS officer Kamlesh Kumar Pant has been given the additional charge of Chief Secretary in Himachal Pradesh. He currently holds posit...

India's major banks are disclosing more climate data but not using it for lending decisions. Physical climate risks like floods and heat ar...

Ten years on, the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana has provided clean cooking fuel to over 10 crore women. This initiative has significantly i...

Toxic runoff from unregulated rare earth mines in Myanmar and Laos is contaminating the Mekong River and its tributaries, threatening the l...

A recent World Bank analysis reveals that air pollution claims approximately one million lives each year in the Indo-Gangetic Plains and th...

The World Bank has initiated a comprehensive program to address India's severe air pollution crisis, targeting the impact of ambient partic...

A new study by the World Bank, released on Thursday, calls for a shift away from focusing on pollution control in cities and hotspots to an...

Just days ago, a colleague shared the picture of his infant girl—her little face hidden behind a nebuliser mask, a new routine recommended ...

India has sealed a deal with the World Bank, German development agency, the Asian Development Bank and Bloomberg Philanthropies to build ca...

A World Bank study released last year revealed that India lost more than 8.5% of its GDP in 2013 due to cost of increased welfare and lost ...

One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 — about 9 million — could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure, accordin...

The smog over northern India is extracting a heavy toll, every minute two lives are lost in India due to ambient air pollution, the study p...

The CPCB gets real-time air quality data from only two or three monitoring stations in most cities. This gives a skewed picture of air qual...

A World Bank report estimates that the concentrations of O3 has increased by 10 to 20% in India between 1990 and 2013.

Only outdoor air pollution in urban areas claims 1.09 lakh lives of adults, another 7,513 of children below 5 years annually, says a latest...

"World Bank has been engaged for a long-term support of National Ganga River Basin Authority, a body headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Sing...