Ruhi Kandhari

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Former journalist, Down To Earth

India Energy Health Effects Renewable Energy Energy Policy Climate Change Mining Forests Legislation Energy Efficiency

Climate Change

Low on carbon crunching

Fresh scheme sets efficiency targets for energy-guzzling sectors but is still too soft

Health

They cannot cast out women

Khap Panchayat's recent posturing against SC judgement on inter-caste marriage and threatening not to produce a girl child shows that time has …

Girls interrupted

Ruhi Kandhari visits Jhajjar-the district with lowest number of girl children in India-to know the reason behind the decline

IT's underbelly

India produces about 400,000 tonnes of electronic waste each year, growing exponentially. Handling this is a great challenge. What adds to it is …

Civil v political

Arguably, this is the hottest political summer for Delhi. Reason: friction between anti-corruption activists and the Union government over the …

Plantation mirage

RajasthanÃ”Ã‡Ã–s tree planting spree might not check desertification

Wind break ends

Centre wants to withdraw sops for wind energy sector; offers an incentive to improve performance

What about nuclear transparency?

Activists say safety audits should be put in public domain

India takes a step ahead on nuclear transparency

To introduce an independent nuclear regulatory authority

Hope flickers

Solar electricity lights the maximum number of villages in Chhattisgarh—but barely so

Confusion over RTI persists

Do PPP ventures come under RTI Act? Planning Commission says not its call

Blank on target

Most states fail to achieve renewable energy target under the climate change action plan

Light on mercury

Regulations to check mercury pollution take backseat as Centre promotes fluorescent light

Time for bright switch

India set to introduce standards to ensure quality imports of LEDs

Villages protest forest acquisition

No compensation from steel major Jindal, allege Odisha people

Caught in crossfire

Chhattisgarh government withdraws support to people who took shelter in Salwa Judum camps

‘Don’t buy our coal’

John Gordon believes a song can get people thinking. He spends the better part of a year teaching musicians from Australia’s aboriginal …

‘Energy conservation is a moving target’

A decade has passed since the Energy Conservation Act was enacted in 2001. Most provisions of the law are yet to be implemented properly. Ajay …

Energy audit shy

Fire in Mundka scrap market

May be good news for landlords who now have metro connection

Cobalt-60 is in Delhi

Authorities unsure how to check entry of radioactive material in scrap

Biodegradable at last

Use of organic catalysts to usher in a new range of plastics

Whose inflation is it anyway?

Government sat on grain stocks while food prices shot up

Centre stalls Vedanta university

Says it approved project without considering objections

Tussle over coal blocks in forests

35 per cent of nine coalfields are ‘no-go’ areas

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