A new initiative of the Ministry of Environment and Forests for cleaning the Ganga
DR. MANMOHAN SINGH Hon'ble Prime Minister

It is an outrageous fact that corporate India faces day after day. In colloquial terms it is called a power shutdown; experts call it an outage or disruption in power supply. Very simply power is not available for use. This disruption or outage, if you please, costs India Inc Rs 43,205 crore every year.

The worst affected is India

The fast disappearing big cat
The elegantly-worded and detailed website of the Madhya Pradesh Government

It happens only in India. The country is the second largest producer of food in the world, yet over 300 million people go without two square meals a day. Ironically, food worth Rs 58,000 crore

Delhi: Hardware companies are on the hunt for the best e-waste disposal mechanisms. The waste from discarded computers, TVs and mobiles is projected to grow to over 8,00,000 tonnes by 2012.

After Wipro, Nokia and Philips, Hewlett-Packard

The world is going through a deep recession. At such a time, one thing we need in abundance is jobs for the semi-skilled and unskilled. This is the only way equal distribution of wealth can take place. The healthcare industry is ideally poised to occupy this position.

The alibis for India

A simple idea can change the world. The polypill is a case in point. For most heart patients, popping piles of pills is a depressing daily reality: knock back blood-thinners to put off clots, toss down statins to lower cholesterol, swallow a fistful of betablockers, diuretics and ACE inhibitors to simmer down high blood pressure (BP).

Lok Sabha Elections 2009-

Manifesto of the Indian National Congress

Shivansh Chandak spends his weekend mornings removing trash from the neighbourhood greens. He is not a ragpicker but a five-year-old student of La Martiniere for Boys. For company he has his 10-year-old brother Devansh. Both are part of a group of children in south Kolkata who have taken up a task which ideally should have been tackled by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).