What’s in your Honey?

Universally, honey is believed to be a natural product. Regulations across the world say as much. The Codex Alimentarius Commission is a global body set up jointly by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop food standards for international trade; it defines honey as “the natural sweet substance produced by honeybees from the nectar of plants or from secretions of living parts of plants or excretions of plant-sucking insects on the living parts of plants, which the bees collect, transform by combining with specific substances of their own, deposit, dehydrate, store and leave in the honeycomb to ripen and mature”.

A fish moves west

Aminul Islam looked to the sky and in an instant brought his eyes to rest on a small mound of hilsa.

Beyond Bhopal: incentive for unsafe industries

Luck plays in strange ways. I was reaching for my scooter when the telephone rang in my office-cum-residence in Bhopal.

High cost of fodder led milk price hike

Birmashri Rathore knows exactly how much water to add to milk so that it can still be accepted as milk.

New gold rush

India is on a mission. To drastically ramp up its solar power production to 22,000 MW by 2022.

Andhra's groundwater crisis & a trail of suicides

MAHABUBNAGAR A  Shekhar, 25, committed suicide a year ago. A resident of Burgupalle village in Andhra Pradesh’s Mahabub - nagar district, he had bought half a hectare (ha) for growing paddy.

IT’s underbelly

Arnab Pratim Dutta visited Attero’s recycling unit in Roorkee, posing as a scrap dealer from Moradabad

When villages plug in

In Nepal, lost in the chaos of political upheavals, a silent revolution is afoot.

Biomass market in a flux

Business is down at the Surya Chambal power plant, but not because of recession. It is the fuel. This power plant runs not on coal, but on mustard husk.

Carriage of convenience

Delhi Metro’s popularity has increased since it started running the first stretch between Shahdara and Tis Hazari in December 2002.