Hills of greyville
Fast-expanding steel industry yet to find an effective way to reuse its waste product, slag
Cleared for growth
Is it all grey?
NIDHI JAMWAL looks at ways to utilise flyash, and so combat a polluting scourge
La farce
No concrete plans
The Centre for Science and Environment's Green Rating Project team has rated the cement industry. Its findings uncovered some surprises. The …
Rajasthan's kunds get undesirable makeover
Nirma whitewash
Detergent company Nirma gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Environment ministry to inspect …
Resource war India after 2020
If the developing world today is the locus of climate change mitigation, including reduction in emissions, then there surely must exist a …
Bhopal to Germany
Airlifting Union Carbide waste requires amending Indian law, violates Basel Convention
Concrete without sand?
The world is sitting over a landfill of possible substitutes for sand
Sand slips
Where there is a river, there is sand. Called a minor mineral, it fulfils a major requirement of the booming construction industry. No wonder, …
The last mayor of Kathmandu
Aditya Batra in conversation with Keshab Sthapit, a mayor famous for muscling his way to urban renewal