India must resist developed country pressure to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, goes the cry. Such a position helps only the rich, in a tearing hurry to grow richer, the environment be damned. It is in the interest of India’s poor for the country to adopt a stringent policy regime to control emissions domestically and thus contribute to a binding deal to cut emissions globally. Climate change has been identified...

Ahead of next month's climate change negotiations in Copenhagen there's a lot of anger in India about the West's pressure on it to sign up to emissions cuts. The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder travelled to India's most industrialised state, Gujarat, to see at first hand some very effective - if homegrown - attempts at tapping renewable energy. In the middle of an open field, a man crouches over some cow dung and...

The number of people killed in flooding caused by heavy rains across southern India continues to rise, with more than 200 confirmed dead, officials say. Millions of people have been left homeless in the Indian states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh as entire villages have been swept away. Rainfall has eased in the worst affected state of Karnataka but many farms have been destroyed. Officials say billions of dollars are needed...

प्रिय पाठक, नॉलेज गेटवे में आपका स्वागत है।अब अगर आपका सवाल है कि ये नॉलेज गेटवे है क्या? तो हमारा जवाब होगा कि दरअसल हम एक भंडारगृह बना रहे हैं; सूचनाओं का भंडारगृह। यहाँ आपकी भेंट किसी ‘खास विषय’ से जुड़ी ज़रूरी सूचनाओं से हो जाएगी। आपकी सहूलियत के लिए हमने नॉलेज गेटवे को कई खण्डों–उपखण्डों में बाँटा है। ये ‘सतत् विकास लक्ष्य’ नामक उपखंड है।   खास बातें—   पहले वैश्विक युद्ध के कारण मची...