Children are widely regarded as the architects of our future. Yet, as a teacher of science and mathematics, I am increasingly concerned that a silent crisis is unfolding among the very generation expected to lead tomorrow's world.
Long before sustainability acquired glossy reports, ambitious targets and impressive acronyms, grandmothers had already solved half the problems.
The emphasis of modern environmental policy has been on prevention. Governments, international institutions and activists have rightly focused on reducing emissions, protecting ecosystems and slowing the pace of climate change.
Wars often reveal the strength of alliances. Their endings reveal something more important: who ultimately gets to define the peace.
While one gets to learn about Central PSEs quite often through news items and media articles, the state public sector enterprises (SPSEs) mostly remain beyond the radar of public scrutiny.
India’s emergence as a formidable defence exporter marks a significant transformation in its global positioning, reflecting both strategic foresight and a proactive approach to industrial growth. Over the past decade, India’s defence exports have skyrocketed, growing more than 30 times and reaching over 90 countries.
Some suggestions made in a recent article written by Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs in the context of recent changes (2022-24) in the political scene of South Asia have attracted widespread attention. This is also due to the prestige and respect enjoyed by the author in academic as well as diplomatic circles.
In his memoirs The Labour Government 1964-1970: A Personal Record published in 1971, Harold Wilson admitted that it was wrong on his part to issue such a statement, “because all the facts were too much in dispute”, and blamed a pro-Pakistan faction in the CRO who had inveigled him into issuing such a statement blaming India, “justified as they said by cast-iron evidence.”
The Environmental Ministry recently launched a web portal to invite ideas for its Mission LiFE initiative. LiFE or Lifestyle for Environment is an Indialed global movement for promoting behavioural change towards proplanet action.
Developments in volatile southern Lebanon have highlighted a significant moment of restraint in a landscape often defined by its cycles…
