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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The Mopa airport project is a case study on how biodiverse regions in India are under constant threat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated Goa’s second international airport at Mopa village, in the northern part of the state. With it, a long-running saga that ran through most of my environmental journalism career comes to an end. Yet, there is no better example of how wilful ignorance, disrespect for scientific findings and weak regulation impact India’s natural world.
The issues raised by the project are important, especially so at a time when countries are negotiating a new global agreement on biodiversity. Nations are figuring out a so-called 30x30 goal: 30% of the earth under some form of natural …
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.
