FM Sitharaman said that start-ups will be provided geo-spatial data related to India domestically, for which they now have to look up to foreign sources and pay exorbitant prices

Despite all the brouhaha around PM CARES Fund, it is states that are at the forefront of funding disaster relief and rehabilitation

Franklin Templeton: The fund house has not given any clear indication about the possible timeline within which it will liquidate all its investments and return investors' money

Getting the basics right holds the key. This would involve first acknowledging that a large population has lost incomes, savings and jobs and second, consumption drives the economic growth which had already been weakened even before the pandemic hit

SDRF allocation has been calculated based on three-four major factors - the expenditures incurred by states on disaster management, area, population and risk profile of individual states - to arrive at the final allocation for each state

The problems with the Fasal Bima Yojana and how the scheme can be fixed

The enormity of the task ahead is mind-boggling. And financial requirement - almost Budget-busting. At 1 pc of GDP, it amounts to Rs 2 lakh crore

Once drought-stricken, Israel is now a water-surplus nation, which uses every drop of its water wisely, and twice

Transforming the citizen lifecycle digitally

In 2018 and 2019, one extreme weather event happened almost every month in India, says CSE and Down To Earth's State of India's Environment 2020 report

Six million more people got displaced due to natural disasters and climate change than war in 2018, says CSE State of India's Environment 200 report

One of the reasons the government would have given importance to the dairy sector is because of the shortage of milk and drastically low levels of SMP (skimmed milk powder)

Light rain and cooler temperatures in the southeast of the country were a welcome change from the searing heat that has fueled the devastating fires, but officials warned they were not enough to put out almost 200 fires still burning

Abhijit Banerjee instead emphasised on the need to have a well-oiled machinery to provide relief to the distressed and said that waivers are not very efficient

By the end of November, 279 sugar mills had started crushing operations, down from last year's 418 mills, the ISMA said in a statement

Maharashtra govt formation: 'There is not an iota of doubt that the government (of the combine) will be formed in Maharashtra,' Sharad Pawar said

Residents of Sydney have been asked to stay indoors and take necessary precautions as air quality reached worst level in the world due to raging wildfires across the east coast of Australia

This is largely on the back of a steep fall in the number of mills that are crushing sugarcane in the country. They have reduced to 100 from 310 last year

Whatever is the new base year, it should be a normal year, not an abnormal one. 2017-18 had two shocks - fallout of demonetisation and implementation of GST

In 2018-19, India produced an all-time high 33.16 million tonnes of sugar but for the first time since 2016-17, the country will produce less sugar than the year before at about 26 million tonnes