Earlier this month, the Supreme Court ordered the government to set up a committee to evolve measures to help home buyers who find that the properties they have invested in are stuck in stalled construction, even as their builders go into insolvency.
The Trump administration’s latest salvo against immigration, a $100,000 fee for every H-1b visa granted, would sharply raise costs for American companies, especially for government projects that require on-site workers.
The Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) is India’s flagship credit-linked subsidy scheme for promoting micro-enterprises in the non-farm sector.
The Uranium Corporation of India Limited was established in 1967 as a Public Sector Enterprise under the administration of the Department of Atomic Energy
The urgent need for climate transition has increased the profile of deep-sea mining (DSM) as a possible source of the metals necessary for a transition to renewables. The need for cobalt, nickel, manganese, copper and rare earth elements, necessary for batteries, wind turbines, and electric vehicles, is growing as more governments commit to carbon neutrality by mid-century.
Rain-fed farming has traditionally escaped policy and funding attention, though it engages more than 60% of India’s farmers. In Karnataka’s Koppal, it now finds itself competing with state-backed solar farms for real estate, at a considerable social cost
In India’s secondary schools, discussions about mental health, violence, or sexuality are often minimal due to stigma, despite high need. Urban adolescent girls from low-income communities frequently encounter traumatic experiences – a national study by the Ministry of Women and Child Development found that 2 out of 3 children had faced physical abuse and half of all children had suffered sexual or emotional abuse