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