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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
TopicGlobal biodiversity

Topic: global biodiversity

What’s the Biodiversity (Amendment) Bill passed by Lok Sabha & why it is facing criticism

The new bill not only simplifies compliance requirements that were there in the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, but also decriminalises biodiversity offences, 'for the ease of doing business'.

Countries gather to discuss new UN ocean protection treaty

According to Greenpeace, 11 million square kilometres of ocean must be protected every year if a target of protecting 30% of world's land and sea by 2030 is to be met.

On Camera

Priyanka Chopra and Shah Rukh Khan don’t owe us their political opinion

The expectation that every Indian celebrity must behave like Meryl Streep or Leonardo DiCaprio is misplaced. This is not Hollywood.

Covid, sanctions, war. Life’s rough for Surat’s small diamond units, salaries ‘not guaranteed anymore’

West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.