On the morning of World Environment Day 2026, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri did something deceptively simple: he filled up a car. The vehicle was a Maruti Suzuki Wagon R Flex Fuel. This was India’s first mass-market flex-fuel car, launched just a day earlier. The fuel was E85, a blend of 80–85% ethanol and 14-19%…
In the rain-fed rice cultivation areas of Odisha and Maharashtra, drought years are not gender-blind events. In fact, research based on national sample survey data in India, conducted by the Asia-Pacific branch of UNDP, has shown that when rainfall is poor, women farm workers earn less in terms of wages than men, specifically in rice-growing…
India is at a tipping point in terms of its development trajectory. Urbanization is happening fast, with people moving from rural to urban areas in search of economic growth. But both urban and rural areas are under threat from the consequences of climate change. The rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, droughts, floods and other climate risks…
As India races to become a global AI hub, its data centres are quietly consuming water from some of the country’s most stressed aquifers. The environmental cost of India’s digital economy is a policy conversation we are overdue to have. Every time you stream a film on a Mumbai morning commute, every email you send…
For years, corporations have measured their environmental footprint by what happens inside their four walls, the electricity they consume, the fuel their trucks burn, the emissions their factories produce. Clean up the factory floor, switch to renewable energy for the head office, and the sustainability report writes itself. The problem? That number, tidy as it…
New Delhi: Mother Dairy unveiled India’s first naturally degradable milk pouch on June 2, 2026, at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Delhi. The new packaging — being rolled out with the company’s cow milk variant across Delhi-NCR from June 5, World Environment Day — breaks down in soil within a few years without leaving behind…
The India Meteorological Department’s revised forecast for 2026 places the southwest monsoon at its weakest in over a decade and the consequences will ripple from paddy fields to grocery shelves. The onset of the monsoons is as significant an annual event as the results of any election and as much talked about as any budget…
An Orange Alert warning of thunderstorms, lightning, rainfall, and gale-force winds has been declared in Gautam Budh Nagar. It is important to note that such alerts highlight the growing danger caused by adverse weather conditions and the significance of being alert through early-warning systems, such as Damini and Sachet. There is an announcement from Gautam…
President Min Aung Hlaing of Myanmar paid a visit to the NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance (NETRA) in Greater Noida, India, on May 31, 2026. The visit, which was accompanied by a high-level ministerial group, offered a chance to highlight India’s accomplishments in renewable energy research and innovation. Senior NTPC executives, including Chairman and Managing…
The Alert That Nobody Sent, But Everyone Received On the night of August 16, 2024, flash floods struck three villages in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district. Families were woken by the sound of water, not by a warning. Evacuation was reactive, not planned. Two people did not make it out. In the inquiry that followed, the…
