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Banjar in Himachal Pradesh has had its Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights recognised, drawing attention to how the Forest Rights Act, 2006, is being implemented. The law protects the entitlements of Scheduled Tribes...
The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) studied the disaster exposure of telecom towers in Assam, Gujarat, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand. In Tamil Nadu, 57% of the 48,416 towers are located in zon...
The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction is marked every year on 13 October. The observance encourages people, communities and governments to understand disaster risk and act to reduce it before a hazard strikes...
The government has now listed 375 allowed works under the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) [VB-G RAM G] Act, 2025. That is 41% more than the 266 works allowed earlier. The works are groupe...
India presented its progress in sustainable forest management and ecological restoration at the 28th session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO 28) in Rome, Italy. COFO is the highest global intergovernmental statutory b...
The India-CARICOM Foreign Ministers' Meeting was held in New York on the sidelines of the 81st UN General Assembly. It followed the 2nd India-CARICOM (Caribbean Community) Summit held in Guyana in November 2024. Foreign...
India took part in the first Partners for Multilateralism (P4M) Summit, held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. P4M is a coalition of middle powers, regional organisations and developing coun...
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has introduced the Information Technology Resilience Index (ITRI) for Market Infrastructure Institutions (MIIs). It will rate IT systems on nine parameters such as availa...
India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, with its chairship built on four pillars: Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability. The New Delhi Declaration covers cooperation in global development, peace...
The International Day to Protect Education from Attack is observed every year on 9 September to stress the need to safeguard education during armed conflict; its 2026 theme is “Can Education Survive Attack? The Resilienc...
At the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, countries could not agree on a global drought framework. The proposal sought better drought p...
A new global drought resilience architecture was unveiled at UNCCD COP17. It includes the world's first Drought Resilience Index (DRI), which measures a country's ability to anticipate, prepare for and withstand droughts...
