India's tenure filter is locking its most climate-exposed urban households out of the adaptation schemes designed to protect them.

The policy looks well-equipped on paper, yet the latest figures indicate the official C&D recycling rate at a mere 5 %.

Donald Trump has once again placed the Abraham Accords at the centre of his foreign policy agenda. The accords which began in 2020 aimed to normalize relations between Israel and several Muslim-majority countries. For Trump, expanding these agreements is not simply another diplomatic initiative but it is one of the defining achievements of his foreign policy legacy.

Cities in India don't lack the corporate climate capital but the governance architecture to access it to build climate resilience.

India received $125 billion in remittances in 2023, retaining its position as the world's largest recipient of inward transfers, according to the World Bank's Migration and Development Brief. The figure anchors the national balance of payments, which keeps families afloat in the agrarian heartlands of states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Odisha, where few alternative income sources exist, and finances approximately 23.2 per cent of Kerala's Net State Domestic Pro

ach disaster is defined by its pace. Earthquakes come within seconds, floods in hours, drought in months. Subsidence takes years to show. It starts showing in millimetres and keeps exacerbating from thereon, and this entire process happens so slowly that when it manifests itself through cracks in walls and roads and flooded basements, the ground responsible for it is no longer there. This is already happening in places as far apart as Jakarta and Mexico City. And although slo

The field of global climate diplomacy, formerly seen as a significant unified front against the shared existential peril, is now characterized by strategic recalibration and disintegration. The pressure is on developing countries to strike a balance between the prestige of global leadership and the harsh realities of infrastructural growth as the world keeps shifting the dynamics of alliances and the advent of digital and energy sovereignty.

The smoke has cleared over the Persian Gulf and the roar of American missiles has become the soundtrack of 2026, but a curious silence prevails in Beijing. While the US finds itself entrenched in another high-stakes Middle Eastern conflict, the broader global landscape is shifting beneath its feet.

While the rest of the world is dealing with petroleum prices and energy reserves, the Chhatarpur and Panna districts of Madhya Pradesh, India, are facing their own crisis. The tribal women villagers of the Chhatarpur region of Madhya Pradesh lay on funeral pyres to protest the Ken-Betwa Link Project in April 2026.

The popular urban planning idea is spreading fast, but the gap between the vision and the reality reveals a deeper governance crisis.