A single chip fab drinks what a town of 60,000 uses in a year
Dholera - A single large semiconductor fabrication plant can consume between 10 and 15 million gallons of ultra-pure water a day. India has 13 approved semiconductor projects, and several sit…
SEBI green debt rules turn on tracking proceeds, because money is fungible
Mumbai - SEBI has built its green bond rules around a single idea: a label is worthless unless somebody independent checks it, twice. Amendments to the non-convertible securities regulations brought…
ESG rules are landing hardest on the companies they do not cover
Pune - The most consequential effect of Indian ESG regulation is falling on companies the regulation does not cover. Listed firms are passing their disclosure requirements down to suppliers, and…
Three research houses shape how a third of the Indian market votes
Mumbai - Institutional investors hold roughly a third of Indian listed equity, and under the Stewardship Code they must vote on every resolution and disclose their reasoning. That obligation has…
Effluent rules extend to micropollutants as zero liquid discharge stays a licence condition
New Delhi - Zero liquid discharge sounds like an environmental aspiration. For a distillery or a textile processing unit in a critically polluted area, it is a condition of continued…
EU due diligence reaches the dyehouse, and Indian textile exporters cannot see that far
Tiruppur - Indian garment exporters are being asked for data their European buyers now need by law, and the questions reach past the factory gate into the dyehouse, the spinning…
Industrial groundwater goes on the meter as CGWA tightens permit conditions
New Delhi - Industrial groundwater users now report their extraction monthly through digital flow meters, and in over-exploited areas most new industry cannot get a permit at all. Every industry,…
India opens nuclear power to private capital by repealing the law that kept vendors out
New Delhi - Parliament passed the SHANTI Bill in December 2025, repealing both the Atomic Energy Act of 1962 and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act of 2010, and…
India largest methane source is agriculture, and its climate plan does not mention it
New Delhi - India emitted roughly 31 million tonnes of methane in 2020, about 9 per cent of the global total, and agriculture is the largest source. It is also…
SEBI reopens the ESG ratings rulebook, and the pay-for-rating conflict is still there
Mumbai - SEBI has constituted a working group to review the regulatory framework for ESG rating providers, reopening a regime that has been in force for barely two years. Only…
