-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The fate of the AAP government's odd-even scheme is likely to be decided on Monday, when the Delhi high court takes a call on whether to end it or allow it to run till January 15. A report of the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), tabled by the Delhi government in court on Friday, has recommended that the scheme be extended beyond January...

-The Hindu Business Line The mythology of free trade being a force for economic progress remains entrenched in world politics Globalisation has created a unique spectator sport, where political dignitaries periodically gather at carefully chosen venues for days of deliberation over humanity’s most consequential problems. It is a spectacle at which ‘civil society’ — as the new force in world politics is called — is granted a tent of its own, financed...

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Delhi High Court today dubbed the Kejriwal regime’s vehicle-rationing report as “vague” and asked it to submit on Friday a revised one having specific data on changes in pollution levels from January 1-7. Focussing on “insufficient” public Transport and “inconvenience” caused to commuters, the court asked the government to consider winding up the odd-even scheme on Friday instead of carrying on for a fortnight. The 8am to 8pm rationing...

-The Hindu For growth to go forward, it must be environmentally and socially concordant. The launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and agreements in Paris finally signalled the realisation that we can no longer achieve our economic ambitions by endangering the environment and society. But even as countries agreed on the need to nurture sustainability, it has come under fire from the mistaken notion that doing so will slow the pace...

-PTI Across the city, including at major arteries in central Delhi, traffic police were seen stopping violators New Delhi: More than 3.8 million commuters opted for buses of Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on the first day of odd-even road rationing scheme implemented for 15 days. According to the public Transporter, 5,700 buses, including 2,000 private buses which also ply under the newly-introduced 'DTC Paryavaran Bus Sewa', came out on the capital roads yesterday. DTC's...