World Environment Day 5th June is observed as Environment Day throughout the globe annually. World Environment Day was first celebrated on 5th June in 1972, and has since become an important vehicle t ...

Asia’s Water Problems By Dr Arvind Kumar Recent reports indicate that much of central China along the Yangtze River has been in the grip of a five-month drought that has dried up rivers, reducing hydr ...

Donors for Africa According to data released recently by the World Bank’s DATA Report 2011, for the past five years, the DATA Report has monitored the historic commitments to sub-Saharan Africa that t ...

Setbacks To World Peace By Dr Arvind Kumar According to the latest edition of the Global Peace Index, an annual ranking of 153 countries, the world became slightly less peaceful in 2010, punctuated by ...

Transparency in Aid Policy By Dr Arvind Kumar According to just-published research by New York University Economics Prof William Easterly and Claudia Williamson, as reported by IRIN, Norway, Sweden, F ...

Wither Green Missions! By Dr Arvind Kumar Recent media reports about Prime Minister’s Office in India having found that some of the missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) ar ...

Earth’s New Geological Age By Dr Arvind Kumar The recently concluded the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium, has adopted the verdict Stockholm Memorandum: Tipping the Scales towards Sustainability, popularl ...

Buddha Purnima Buddha Jayanti also known as Buddha Purnima is the most sacred festivals of Buddhist. Buddha Purnima also traditionally known as Vaishakh Poornima. Lord Buddha is considered the ninth a ...

Urbanization vs. Human Survival Rapid pace of urbanization has become almost ubiquitous phenomenon and India is no exception to it. The present balance of population in favour of rural India is likely ...

Water Scarcity: a Scare We take it for granted, we waste it and even pay too much to drink it from little plastic bottles. And still , today ,nearly 1 billion people in the developing world don’t have ...