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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Central institute’s report backs concerns of activists, asks ministry to redo draft EIA notification 2020.
Weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown last March to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Indians were still trying to grapple with its impact on their lives and livelihood, the environment ministry went ahead and published the draft environment impact assessment notification 2020.
This was then followed by the ministry doing its utmost to hastily implement the drastic changes proposed in the draft, by reducing the legally mandated public consultations to a token exercise.
Despite the all-round pandemic-induced stupor, public outrage—which found reflection in a flood of over two million emails and letters from …
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
The country's fighter jet roadmap rests on imported propulsion, leaving its military plans hostage to cost shocks, delays and geopolitics.
Fiscal discipline holds on paper, but the number is propped up by higher borrowing and revenue sources that are far from stable.
