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Transition failure
Author(s): Jitendra 
@jitendrachoube1 , Aparna Pallavi @AparnaPallavi1 , Akshay Deshmane @DeshmaneAkshay , Alok Gupta @alok227 , M Suchitra
@jitendrachoube1 , Aparna Pallavi @AparnaPallavi1 , Akshay Deshmane @DeshmaneAkshay , Alok Gupta @alok227 , M SuchitraIssue Date: Jun 30, 2013
Letters - June 16-30, 2013
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2013
Solar catches dust
As a renewable energy expert I welcome some of the views expressed in the article, “India’s power mess” (May 1-15, 2013). There is no doubt that solar energy would be the future of energy, especially as a decentralised power source. The big question, however, is whether it is worthwhile for a developing country like India to go for solar power in a big way. Cheap and efficient equipment is the only way to make solar power production sustainable.
Water woes acquire gargantuan proportions
Posted on: 4 Jun, 2013
The country’s national leaders have shown a remarkably weak appetite on policy and legislation
With great GDP growth have come even greater challenges of water management. During UPA II, these have been exacerbated by poor governance, corruption and kow-towing to industry. The water sector is in a bigger mess than ever before, and certainly more so than before UPA II. While earlier there were isolated instances of public-private partnerships in water service delivery, it has now become common-place with usually poor results.
Structural collapse
Author(s): Sayantan Bera @sayantanbera , Soma Basu @sbasu_in , Akshay Deshmane @DeshmaneAkshay , Avikal Somvanshi @
@sayantanbera , Soma Basu @sbasu_in , Akshay Deshmane @DeshmaneAkshay , Avikal Somvanshi @ Issue Date: Jun 15, 2013
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Grease, grit and grime
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How a building becomes vulnerable to collapse
Tedious clearance process
Ground reality
Chaos in the iron age
Issue Date: May 31, 2013
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Bellary to bleed again
Goa next
Bellary case file
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Mines produce more than permitted
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Burdened by mines
Goa after mining ban
Bad business all round
Posted on: 30 Apr, 2013
Neither the market regulator nor the Supreme Court has been able to bring crooked businessmen to book
How MGNREGA blew Rs 10,853 crore
Issue Date: May 15, 2013
NHPC cornered over Subansiri
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
Hate crime
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2013
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is facing a spam avalanche after naming Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev Corruption’s Person of the Year for 2012. Drew Sullivan, the editor of the Sarajevo and Bucharest-based investigative journalism outfit, himself received more than 4,000 messages in the past month, saying Azerbaijani citizens love their president.
