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New Delhi: In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) refreshingly came-up as a marked improvement over existing mechanisms to guide and channelise international, national, regional and local actions. Aiming to balance human aspirations and equitable growth, with the least possible environmental and ecological impacts, the SDGs outline the most holistic canvas on sustainable development till date. ‘ SDG 12 : Sustainable Consumption and Production’ is right at the centre of this balance, warranting a radical re-look at our current way of life. While we have made substantial progress in improving efficiencies and shifting to cleaner approaches, fundamentally, as of now, growth is still predicated on the day-to-day increase in production, and influencing people to buy more goods. Add to this, the inherent challenges of irreversible extraction of natural resources, recurring post-harvest and food losses, increased processing and waste streams, higher congestion in urban … [Read more...] about SDG 12: Sustainable Consumption and Production – what does it imply for India

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping suggested Thursday that China and France actively push for continuous progress in such areas of practical cooperation as energy, aviation and agricultural and food products, and foster new driving forces for bilateral cooperation. In a telephone conversation with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, Xi also said the two countries should cement mutual trust, respect and accomodate in earnest each other's core interests and major concerns, and effectively implement their major cooperation agreements. The two heads of state exchanged Spring Festival greetings and respectively sent best wishes to the people of the other country. Recalling that he and Macron held five phone conversations in 2020, Xi pointed out that those exchanges have promoted the sound development of China-France relations, and noted that the consensuses they reached have been well implemented. In the new year, the two sides … [Read more...] about Xi eyes new driving forces for China-France cooperation

Next 'If you can come with some arrangement with the Pakistanis that Pakistan ceases to stop creating trouble in Kashmir in return for the Indians not arming Afghanistan, everyone wins.' William Dalrymple discusses his new book Return of a King , Afghanistan, the Mughals and, of course, India with Rediff.com 's Syed Firdaus Ashraf. I f you don't like history, please pick up any book by William Dalrymple and find yourself falling in love with the subject. Be it the White Mughals or The Last Mughal , Dalrymple beautifully brings the past to the present, making distant historical figures a part of your life; at times making them linger on in your mind long after you have finished reading the book. He did this expertly with the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and also with Khair-un-Nissa, the Hyderabad noblewoman in the White Mughals . Dalrymple's new book Return of a King is the story of Shah Shuja, Afghanistan's puppet king … [Read more...] about ‘Pakistan is obsessed with the idea of about a billion Indians surrounding them’