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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
A loophole in the law allows companies intending to set up large infrastructure and mining projects to conduct their own assessments, putting a question mark on the integrity of the process.
On a wintry morning in early 2019, around 160 people gathered at a playground at Siarmal village in Odisha’s Sundargarh district. The village is surrounded by paddy fields and forests teeming with tendu trees, barking deer and the occasional sloth bear.
The setting isn’t as idyllic as it sounds. Siarmal is close to one of the most polluted areas in India, the Ib Valley-Jharsuguda coalfields, where the air is thick with dust from the mining and transport of coal that feeds power plants across eastern India. The people had been called to the playground by the Odisha government for a …
The country’s woefully inadequate efforts to reduce its reliance on lithium imports could spoil its EV party.
Mukesh Ambani’s $10-billion bet faces a harsh reality: much of the clean-energy stack still sits overwhelmingly in Chinese hands.
When India’s solar capital says coal no longer adds up, it’s a market signal investors shouldn’t ignore. Separately, Deutsche Bank sets a €900 billion sustainable finance target by 2030 and COP30 falls short of expectations.
