One small step..
Industry gets a new friend, philosopher and evaluator -- the Centre for Science and Environment's Green Rating Project, which will be the …
Shades of green
Fabric printinggoes high-tech with the help of a computercontrolled nvironmentfriendly technique
Strange but true
Existing clean-up technology or treatment plants have failed to check pollution by our errant industries, especially the chlorine-based units
Friends of the river
Clearing the Ganga, is their mission even if it means fishing out scores of bodies from the river
Plastic surgery
The government's notification on plastic will have little effect on the industry or the environment. It is merely a move to silence opposition to …
Sordid saga
The Sanghi jetty case takes a new turn as the Gujarat high court directs the Union government to re-examine the issue of environment clearance
Miffed with the greens
Conscious of the pressure upon them, representatives of industry discuss environmental matters at length in the automobile manufacturers' annual meet
Gifted writers
The life of a journalist on the motoring beat is replete with foreign trips, cash and expensive gifts, all in exchange of a slippery pen
Big tobacco coughs up
A tobacco company will have to pay US $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer
Green money
Financial institutions may soon lend a helping hand to the environment sector, says the Indian environment minister
Shape up or ship out
Pollution control board sets November deadline for brick kiln manufacturers to clean up their act
OK Simputer
It's a drab piece of plastic, with a black-and-white screen and a few buttons -- features that hardly warrant a second look. Nevertheless, …
Nirma whitewash
Detergent company Nirma gave false information to obtain clearance for its cement plant in coastal Saurashtra. Environment ministry to inspect …
Have technology, will survive
A green agenda based on the paradigm of pollution prevention can rescue the small-scale industry
Mere plans
Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside
A living nightmare
Thousands of people, including orphan children, face a bleak future living in the world's most polluted city
Cry the beloved country
The fight against AIDS in Africa hinges largely on drugs becoming more affordable in poor nations
Cipla's bitter pill for MNCs
Several eyebrows have been raised over the Cipla offer to supply anti- aids drugs at one-third the current price to developing countries like …
Global fruit pomace market expected to grow exponentially: study
Long discarded or used only as animal feed and compost, rising demand from health-conscious consumers will change fruit pomace’s fortunes, …
The story of National Bamboo Mission
While the restructuring of the earlier Mission is good news, there is much more that needs to be done
10 cement companies, industry body fined Rs 6,300 crore for cartelisation
The Competition Commission of India found the companies were acting in concert to fix the prices of cement
Smokescreen
The most powerful government in the world and the behemoth tobacco industry are waging a ding-dong battle over...well, cigarettes
The vagaries of power
Differential metering of peak- and low-load consumption might jolt the power sector out of the red
Making clothes more comfortable
A mathematical theory may result in an objective technique to evaluate both the comfort of a fabric and how it will behave over time
Change in immigration rules flayed
A US government plan to simplify immigration procedures for professionals in 10 short-listed vocations has come under fire