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Nations including India are negotiating a plastic deal that will be signed in 2024. India seems in favour of less ambitious action.

If there’s one problem that unites all nations, people and communities, it is plastic. Who hasn’t seen the brightly-coloured stuff floating about in lakes and rivers, or read shocking data about how much of it we unknowingly consume (about one credit card’s worth in a week)? If a survey were to be done in Indian cities asking people to name the top environmental issue of the day, I bet that plastics would be the majority choice, far ahead of equally or more pressing ones like climate change.
Yet, somehow, few people are aware that an international treaty to decisively …

Mukesh Ambani wants investors to price Reliance Industries’ IPO-bound telecom arm like a technology business. In reality, Jio’s tech ambitions remain a work in progress.
From electric vehicles to quick commerce, finance to retail, India continues to be a market where late movers can always catch up.
The government keeps trying to woo bidders to set up offshore wind projects, even though big tenders have been cancelled and developers have shown little interest.