Sustainable Development

Suicide Rates Among Indian Youth Highest in the World

Suicide rates among Indians age 15-29 are the highest in the world, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization (WHO). The most recent numbers available fr...

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Crisis centre for women in distress in West Bengal

It was beyond midnight when an official of West Bengal Commission for Women got a call from a Salt Lake resident, asking him to rescue an elderly woman who was pushed out of h...

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New Delhi Gay Pride: India's LGBT community hit capital's streets for Pride parade

Hundreds of members of India’s gay and lesbian community marched in Delhi on Sunday in the capital’s first Gay Pride parade since homosexuality was recriminalized ...

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The Path to Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Bhopal Disaster

In the 1960s, UCC used to claim that its aim was to “help make a better life for all of us”. In addition, when it began marketing its pesticide products in India, ...

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India’s smart cities need smart governments

Narendra Modi is a leader with an urban vision. As the chief minister of Gujarat, he transformed Ahmedabad with an award-winning sustainable bus transit system and a ‘wo...

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India committed to global fight against climate change: Javadekar

Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar has said India is committed to play its part in the global fight against climate change. &ldquo...

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Women in India Lift Themselves from Poverty through Self-Help

Women farmers in rural India are rising out of poverty and transforming their cultural position in society, in part because they have joined together in Self-Help Groups that ...

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Rural girls quitting education as schools lack toilets

School education minister Vinod Tawde has expressed concern over alarming increase in school dropout rate, especially for girls, and blamed it on absence of girl’s toile...

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Solar energy can bring India's economic growth'

In a bid to integrate conventional power with solar power and achieve the overarching goal within reasonable timeframes and to help Prime Minister’s objective to provide...

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Can Solar Thermal Desalination Make Sustainable Agriculture Possible?

The jury is still out on solar thermal, which is certainly efficient but has its critics because of its costs, both financial and ecological. The International Energy Associat...

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BHARAT RANG MAHOTSAV 2026 OPENS MUMBAI STAGE

The 25th Bharat Rang Mahotsav arrives in Mumbai on February 7, celebrating global theatr...

February 7 2026

TWO-CHILD NORM ENDANGERS CHILDREN AND DEMOCRACY

A shocking murder in Maharashtra exposes the dangers of India’s two-child norm, as...

February 6 2026

ART IS BORN FREE: TEJAS SONI’S JOURNEY

Ahmedabad-based artist Tejas Soni reflects on five decades of living artfully—acro...

February 5 2026