Niti Ayog

Bharat Biotech’s intranasal vaccine for COVID-19: Everything we know so far about BBV154

The intranasal vaccine BBV154 is being tested to check if it prevents infection, halts person-to-person transmission, and progression of COVID-19.

India fast-tracks approvals for foreign COVID-19 vaccines to bridge supply gap amid surging cases

It will still be mandatory for companies to conduct a bridging trial in India after the individual vaccines are given EUA.

India's water crisis: Lessons from Madurai, a city that adopted tanks and suffered after abandoning them

Understanding why Madurai, like every other city in India, has built over its water bodies like tanks and canals illuminates how we got to the mess we are in

India's water future threatened by the combined effect of climate change and rising demand

Given India’s rising population, wealth and accordingly, water use per capita, by 2030, India’s overall water use could easily double.

India's metro cities will run out of groundwater in next 10 yrs, claims NITI Ayog report; 40% populace will have no access to drinking water by 2030

The recent report of NITI Ayog on groundwater level says 21 Indian cities including Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad - will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting around 100 million people. It also says that 40 percent of India's population will have no access to drinking water by 2030.

'One nation, one poll' deliberation today: KCR to skip Narendra Modi's meeting with party chiefs, son KT Rama Rao to represent TRS

TRS President and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao would not attend Wednesday's meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the 'one nation, one election' issue. K T Rama Rao, working President of the party and son of the chief minister, would represent the TRS in the meeting.

Goa environmentalists cheer Pramod Sawant's proposal for rain harvesting, raising ground water level

t the NITI Ayog's meeting in New Delhi on Saturday, Sawant said his government would take steps to ensure proper rainwater harvesting to overcome scarcity in the state. Karnataka and Goa, the riparian states of Mahadayi, have been locked in a bitter battle over the sharing of water of the river. Environmentalist Sachin Tendulkar said that the focus should be on rainwater recharge in higher reaches and foothills of the state through micro watershed-based approach.

Viral Acharya is right; RBI should be left alone to do its job, not coerced for political reasons

The central bank is not a part of the government and is agnostic to political agendas but has to function within the realm of the government.

TC approves net neutrality rules which bar providers from throttling data speeds

The DoT will set-up a multi-stakeholder body for monitoring and enforcement of net neutrality.

Ahead of Chief Ministers Subgroup meeting, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee highlights need to waive institutional loans to farmers

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged a group of chief ministers, set up by the Centre, to consider the need to waive institutional loans of farmers and the formation of adequate budgetary provision for it by the union government.