Modi to embark on 3-day US visit today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be leaving for his three-day visit to the United States on Wednesday to participate in Quad Leaders' Summit, address the high-level meeting of the 76th session of......

How India's young innovators do well by doing good

'Let me talk about young Indian startups with their hearts in the right place and how they are proving that innovations that represent 'affordable excellence' is indeed possible!' says Dr R A......

Standing their ground: What women in Delhi do to stay safe?

Over two years since the Nirbhaya rape shook the nation women in New Delhi feel no safer than they did before. With safety apps to self-defence classes on the rise, Ritika Bhatia takes a look at......

10 things Prime Minister Modi told the UN

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York. Photograph: Vijay Verma/PTI Photo In his 33-minute address at the......

Brexit could mar Paris Agreement success

EU operates as one block at the climate change negotiations and takes a single greenhouse gas emission reduction target under the Paris Agreement United Kingdom’s exit from the European......

A look into India's e-waste problem

  The new rules will hopefully do better By notifying fresh rules to govern the handling of electronic waste or e-waste (the earlier rules issued five years ago were quite inadequate), the......

Paris package gets green light from 196 nations

Penultimate draft for climate pact cleared; solution to all other issues to be resolved by ministers in the second week of negotiations On Saturday, after four years of negotiations that began in......

As Paris climate talks begin, 196 countries hope to resolve impasse

The new agreement, will be negotiated and once it is sealed it will also be judged Starting Monday, 196 countries shall attempt to achieve what they failed to do in 2009 — sign a new global......