The proposed National Investment Approval Board (NIAB) will help speed up environmental, forest and other statutory clearances for “nationally important” large projects and likely pull the economy

Prime Minister, experts batted for 2.5%

Now the government must outline path of fiscal correction, put investment back on track. The UPA government announced a number of reform measures last week.

The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Meeting this weekend in the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok has put drawing up a list of environmentally friendly goods on its agenda.

Increasing misuse of chemicals is causing health and environmental damage especially in emerging economies and governments must do more to carry out a promised clean-up by 2020, a United Nations re

A controversial idea to brake global warming, first floated by the father of the hydrogen bomb, is affordable and technically feasible, but its environmental impact remains unknown, a trio of US sc

China plans to invest 2.37 trillion yuan ($375.6 billion) in major energy-saving projects during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), according to a document released by the State Council.

New Delhi: India aims to meet the much-awaited goal of reaching the total fertility rate (TFR) — the average number of children born to a woman — to 2.1% by the end of 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17)

New Delhi: The Indian economy is expected to grow by 6.7% in 2012-13, a top advisory panel to the Prime Minister said on Friday, and called for accelerating vital economic reforms including raising