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Govt uses off-record WhatsApp, instructing states to cut back work for MNREGA

Part I: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was operated using WhatsApp to informally communicate about states' fund allocation

How MNREGA crashed after Modi govt's off-record WhatsApp instructions

PART II: Centre's off-record instructions through WhatsApp and a squeeze on funds brought the rural work programme to crash after a roaring first half of the year

Global deal on climate-changing refrigeration gases sealed in Rwanda

All the member countries arrived at compromise after seven years of negotiations

With India isolated, Pakistan climate change project gets approval at Green Climate Fund

Another independent assessment of project imposed as a new condition

India blocks Pak project at green climate fund meet

Says project technically flawed

Govt sets up panel to revamp forest law

The committee is likely to submit a report in three or four months though neither a deadline nor specific terms of reference has been set for it

Govt aborts plan for grievance redress law

Instead, an administrative scheme is in the making

At Rwanda, India to help seal global climate deal on refrigeration gases

Cost of transition for India could go up to $38.1 bn

Climate talks: It's getting hotter

The tug of wills on a fine print to enforce the Paris pact has begun. Initial portents show India, for one, has much to work on

Taking consent from tribal gram sabha is not practical: Anil Madhav Dave

Union environment, forests and climate change minister Anil Madhav Dave shares his views and priorities speaking to Nitin Sethi

Aadhaar mandatory for subsidised LPG

Oil marketing firms to help citizens enroll for unique identity number

India ratifies Paris Agreement, but with caveats

Leaves window open to exit or reduce commitments, in case global scenario changes

Red lines drawn for global deal on emissions from aviation

191 nations to attend negotiations specifically meant to set a global pact for civil aviation sector, beyond Paris Agreement

Paris Agreement to constrain India's energy policy

India's energy policy would have to be in tune with the international commitments on emission reduction

After ratification: Writing and reading the climate change rules for 4 years

Work on these rules, regulations and decisions begins formally on November 8 this year with the meeting of 196 countries at Morocco

Modi promises to ratify Paris Agreement on Oct 2

Modi's gambit to hinge ratification of climate change pact to NSG membership fails

Aadhaar can't be mandatory, reiterates Supreme Court

Government says it has established a legal bypass with new Aadhaar-related laws

Paris environment pact closer to coming into force

India likely to find itself isolated as its negotiating tool loses edge

NDTV withdraws case against government's Sagarmala project

It had filed the petition claiming that indiscriminately building new ports under the scheme would damage the Indian shoreline further

Wildlife panel okays Ken-Betwa river link

100 square kilometre of Panna Tiger Reserve could go under water