Shot in the arm for climate linked health action at Belém, global philanthropies commit $300 million
Priority on air pollution, heat stress, infectious diseases; move to align with Belém Health Action Plan
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India at 79
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India at 79: Nehruvian Socialism to Viksit Bharat@2047; natural capital continues to be compromised
- by Nilanjan Ghosh
- August 19, 2025
India’s recent growth story has always been construed as a post-1991 liberalisation phenomenon. The formative decades after independence in 1947, however, unfold a dismal picture with growth numbers struggling even at low bases of the GDP, as the state embraced a “Nehruvian Socialist” pattern of development. The newly independent republic, scarred by colonial exploitation, embarked
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Ganga Brahmaputra linked via Bangladesh to promote water trade in north east
- by Jayanta Basu
- April 24, 2022
Under PM Gati Shakti program, the historical water trade routes via Bangladesh got rejuvenated by linking Ganga and Brahmaputra waterways to facilitate trade in north east; On last Sunday, March 6, Sarbananda Sonowal, union minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways, received vessel MV Lal Bahadur Shastri carrying 200 MT of food grains from Patna to