Green Initiative
-
Once known for its sweatshops, Bangladesh is slowly moving towards sustainable production
A decade after the deadly Rana Plaza disaster, Bangladesh is home to nine of the world’s top 10 sustainable garment factories.
Mosabber Hossain, Thomson Reuters Foundation
-
In Kolkata, one man’s grit helped restore an abandoned dump yard to its former green glory
Mantu Hait used guerrilla gardening to plant 25,000 trees along a one-kilometre stretch.
Satwik Paul
-
Ranger, Ranger: A project documents those who protect India’s flora and fauna – often at great risk
Journalist Sonali Prasad talks to thethirdpole.net about what inspired her to profile the lives and challenges of India’s forest guards.
Omair Ahmad
Trending
-
Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
-
Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
-
Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
-
Karnataka forms SIT to probe ‘obscene videos’ case allegedly involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna
-
Why Calcutta HC struck down 25,000 teachers’ appointments and how it could impact the election
-
Meenangadi in Kerala is well on its way to being India's first carbon-neutral panchayat
With a deadline of 2020, the town is working towards increasing green cover and reducing its carbon footprint.
TA Ameerudheen
-
An emerging renewables superpower: China's climate pledge guns for green growth
China's formal climate target shows that the world's largest greenhouse emitter is determined to green its economy on an unprecedented scale - and that it can bring the rest of the world along for the ride.
John Mathews, The Conversation
-
Costa Rica is now running completely on renewable energy
The country doesn’t need an ounce of coal or petroleum to keep the lights on.
Adam Epstein, qz.com
Video
-
Video: Listen to this acapella version of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ by four singers
-
Watch: Argentinian woman is crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires at 60
-
Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
-
Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
-
Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat