Climate discourse often treats decarbonisation like a universal one-pot recipe: add renewables, subtract fossil fuels, stir in net-zero targets, and serve before 2050. But for countries in the Global South such as India, still navigating poverty alleviation, industrial growth, and reliable energy access simultaneously, the transition cannot be copypasted from the Global North template. India…
If India lags in switching to a more climate-friendly steelmaking method, a recent United Nations report finds that its top steel exports could decline by up to 30 percent by 2035 as key trading nations impose a carbon-content-based border tax. But if India moves early, then it can trim the decline to just 10 percent….
Every year, the same Indian cities make headlines twice over. In June, newspapers report bone-dry reservoirs and residents lining up behind water tankers. By August, the same streets are underwater, cars floating past flooded metro stations. Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, and Delhi have all lived through this strange double crisis: too little water one season, too…
Agriculture Under Growing Climate and Disaster Risks India’s agricultural sector is becoming more prone to the dual effects of natural calamities and climate change. In recent years, farmers in various regions of the country have suffered from an increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as unseasonal rain, hailstorms, droughts, floods, cyclones, heat waves, cold…
When the India AI Impact Summit wrapped up in New Delhi this February, the headline numbers were about investment: over $200 billion in commitments, a $15 billion data centre hub from Google in Visakhapatnam, and a national AI market expected to grow from roughly $9.5 billion in 2024 to $130 billion by 2032. Less discussed,…
A Choice That Did Not Make Headlines In the early 2010s, when Dia Mirza was at a point where most actors would be intensifying their film commitments, she made a different calculation. The roles did not diminish in quality. What changed was where her time and public capital went. She began to speak about plastic…
India is past an important tipping point. Mixing ratios have risen from 1.14% during 2014-15 to 20% in the current Ethanol Supply Year of 2025-26. This figure is quite important considering that India imports 87% of its crude oil, which makes it susceptible to pricing issues and geopolitical instabilities. But there is a much more…
Uttar Pradesh has launched an ₹8,200 crore integrated solar manufacturing facility by SAEL Industries in the YEIDA region of Gautam Budh Nagar. The project will produce solar cells and modules, create around 20,000 jobs, and strengthen India’s renewable energy manufacturing ecosystem.
TWO TREMORS, ONE CAPITAL, NO WARNING Earthquakes rarely announce themselves twice. Venezuela was struck by back-to-back powerful earthquakes minutes apart on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, with buildings collapsing in the capital, Caracas, in a country whose institutional capacity to respond to large-scale disaster has been quietly eroding for years under economic crisis and political turmoil…
THE RIVER AS THE ONLY REFUGE In a country where most homes and even many offices have no air conditioning, the river becomes the only democratic relief from heat that has nowhere else to go. Such is the story behind France’s deadliest heatwave-driven drowning toll in recent memory. At least 45 deaths since June 18,…
