India’s Wild Rice Just Got Its First Biodiversity Heritage Site. Here’s Why That Matters.

Tucked in the Sonitpur district of Assam, along the banks and wetlands where wild rice grows naturally in the landscape, is a site called Borjuli. As of this week, it has a new, formal status: Biodiversity Heritage Site, notified by the National Biodiversity Authority of India. It is the first such recognition for a wild…

India’s electric mobility transition is well past the question of “if” and firmly into the territory of “how fast” and “at what cost.” On July 2, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) convened a National Conference on “Electric Mobility: Building India an Electric Mobility Hub for Viksit Bharat” in New Delhi,…

The river that gave a civilisation its name is getting cleaner. Slowly, methodically, and in ways that don’t make for dramatic headlines — but the numbers from India’s flagship Ganga rejuvenation programme are beginning to tell a genuine story of progress. The Namami Gange Programme has now sanctioned 524 projects worth ₹43,031 crore and seen…

India generates an estimated 3.5 million tonnes of plastic waste every year — and recycles a significant share of it, largely through a vast informal sector that rarely gets the credit it deserves. On July 2, the country hosted one of its most ambitious attempts yet to put both the problem and the solutions in…