A small group supported by the Deepak Foundation is helping empower women in Gujarat's villages. The Trust originally set up to succour Saurashtra's cyclone victims, transformed in the early 90's

With a stroke of a spade and a streak of common sense, Castrol India last year produced an answer to Rajasthan's sweltering summer and the sagging sales of its lubricant, CRB plus. CRB plus used in

India needs 41 million dwellings at an investment of Rs 2,00,000 crore. There is demand for 15 million homes in urban centres alone. Another Rs 2,50,000 crore is needed to provide the infrastructure.

By the year 2015, Delhi is expected to run out of groundwater, at current usage rates. Lake Chad in Africa, which supplies water to 20 million people in six countries, has shrunk by 95 per cent in

Naandi, an NGO promoted by four business houses, has changed lives for people in Andhra Pradesh. Under Naandi's guidance, farmers were trained to manage these schemes as a business venture and

Come September, Delhi may well witness once again he madness that marked its public transport for a short time in April. The Supreme Court, in 1999, had fixed the last day of March 2001 as the

After decades of a war of attrition, work has finally begun on the Narmada Valley projects in Madhya Pradesh. The bigger surprise: this time the pace is unlikely to be hampered either by lack of

Mangala oil field in Barmer, Rajasthan, has begun production of oil five-and-a-half years after discovering it in 2004. "It is a proud moment for us," said Rahul Dhir, ceo, Cairn India, announcing the news. "By 2011, we would be contributing about 20 per cent of India's domestic crude production.

As India continues its struggle to find alternative energy sources to cope with the growing energy demand, it is looking aggressively at cbm (coal bed methane) gas as a source of clean, thermal energy, that is known for its easy inflammability. India currently consumes 140,000 mw of electricity per year, about 55 per cent of which is thermal-based and derived from coal.

There is a corporate look about the state secretariat of Gujarat. Unlike most other state capitals, political | workers of any hue are conspicuous by their absence in ' Gandhinagar. Instead, smartly-dressed business executives from across the country and the world buzz around in the corridors of the state capital.