Bad business all round

Blog Intro:  Neither the market regulator nor the Supreme Court has been able to bring crooked businessmen to book Neither the market regulator nor the Supreme Court has been able to bring crooked businessmen to book

Victim of its success

Energy pill for renewable sector

Kumbh: time to come clean

Maha Kumbh in Allahabad has perhaps no parallel in terms of the sheer size of the congregation. In less than two months over 100 million people are expected to come to this city, which sees the confluence of two rivers of India—the Ganga and the Yamuna. People come to worship on the banks of the Ganga.

Free the air of mercury

In 2003, we at the Centre for Science and Environment undertook the task of creating an inventory of mercury use in India. We decided on this endeavour after conducting the environmental rating of the chlor-alkali industry: an industry that produces basic chemicals like caustic soda and chlorine.

Can faith heal?

Uttar Pradesh engages Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health, agriculture and financial services to the poor

The Uttar Pradesh government has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to improve the health, agriculture and financial services to the poor.

Let solar shine

Silence is the best policy

There is nothing more criminal than the conspiracy of silence. There is also nothing more abject than scientists participating in acquiescence and deceit.

India’s Minamata

Saraju Nisha sits at the door of her house, about 500 metres from a mountain of coal mine waste in Chilika Daad village in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district. The 60-year-old former miner is in deep pain.