Outlook sent bottles of Coke and Pepsi to Britain's largest laboratory to test for pesticides. The result: a clean chit for the colas. Out of 35 pesticides tested for, 31 were below EU norms
A 1997 Asian Development Bank study ranked Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai among the four worst cities in Asia in terms of water availability. contrast Delhi and Chennai's four hours of supply every day to
Punjab, the cradle of green revolution, may soon turn into a desert of despair. According to a study conducted by the ministry of agriculture, the State is heading for an ecological disaster. The
This year, India's water warriors won. Combating three consecutive years of drought, they splashed news of their victory in waters they had harnessed from the skies. So, even as parts of the Country
Tehri is sinking. The fledgling state of Uttaranchal faces its first major crisis as the 200-year -old hill town stares at total submergence. Progress, in the shape of one of the highest dams in the
India's first artificial forest in an urban sphere is what the two some of Suresh Heblikar, a film maker and environmentalist who heads Eco-watch, and his son Akshay, are engendering in Bangalore.
Kailash Soni is CEO of Radius Water Limited and author of India's first-ever private water supply scheme, in Chhattisgarh's Durg area. Soni has shown that private entrepreneurship in water supply
At 9 am on a brisk February morning in a village called Dharad, people are already hard at work. They are building a 110-metre-long bund across a dry stream to trap rain. The cost of this project is
Is it finally curtains for the world's largest shipbreaking yard? A recent US government move could well turn the coastal Gujarat town of Alang into a ghost town. Paradoxically, what is bad news for
