Rio 20 Summit

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  Vibrant Gujarat: Birlas, Ambanis Start With a Chunk of Investments

  Within an hour of the start of the Vibrant Gujarat Business Summit, three major industrialists had pledged investment of over Rs 1,20,000 crore in the state.

• Blog: Sidelights at Rio+20

  Who says summits are boring and don't make for some fun. It's not always about the punctuation in the outcome draft or the informal informals, as the meetings in the run up to the high level session were called. There's always room for lighter moments. Now China's propaganda machinery is well known. But we had a first-hand experience of it when, u...

• Profit Top 10: Rupee breaches 57-mark to dollar; Tata Motors wins Singur land case

  If you missed our coverage, here are the top 10 stories of the day.

• Blog: Rio +20 - The Indian Perspective

  To quote from the Prime Minister's speech at the Rio+20 summit here in Brazil: "Sustainable development (also) mandates the efficient use of available natural resources. We have to be much more frugal in the way we use natural resources. A key area of focus is energy. We have to promote, universal access to energy, while, at the same time, promotin...

• Rio+20 Summit: PM hits out at developed nations over emissions

  Manmohan Singh today hit out at industrialised countries over the issue of carbon emissions.

• India may soon export rice to China

  India may soon be allowed to export rice to China, an Indian official said after a meeting between Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao.

• Blog: The French Cancan

  So, there we were, waiting for the French President to address the media. Big deal, you may think, at a summit where there are over a hundred heads of state, how does it matter if the French President is coming?

• World leaders open Rio summit on 'green' economy

  World leaders opened a three-day summit on environment and poverty in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to a warning from UN chief Ban Ki Moon that "time is not on our side" for fixing a mounting list of problems.

• Has global downturn hit the Rio+20 summit?

  20 years after the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro, the beach destination is witnessing a different type of carnival this time around. Over 130 countries, more than a hundred heads of State, 50,000 participants; all coming together in an attempt get countries to re-commit their political backing to sustainable development with the focus on...

• Five things about Rio+20

  Coming as it does 20 years after the Earth Summit held in the same city in 1992, the United Nations conference on sustainable development is commonly referred to as Rio+20.