At the time of Independence, availability of power was confined to a few urban and industrial pockets of Haryana and its villages were engulfed in darkness. However, during the Congress regime in 1970, Haryana became the first state in the country to provide electricity to hundred per cent of its villages.
India's petroleum minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has decided to become an aggressive player in yet another version of the region's great energy game. What he's pursuing is not new; instead what's
Thane city is acquiring a brand new image -an environment-friendly makeover. Large-scale use of solar energy, which was considered a somewhat far-fetched concept, has brought in real benefits and
Last week, the Maharashtra government started the experiment to augment rain it's been on for a month in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in what is India's first artificial rain project on this scale.
The UNDP Human Development Report figures are damaging, but inconsistencies remain. In India, the way a child grows up, or whether she grows up at all, depends on where she's born. Census figures say
Fifty-five lions have died in Gir in the last two years. According to Sanat Chauhan, former principal chief conservator of forests, "many more lions are likely to die given that the 1,400 sq km
Female foeticide isn't rural India's original sin anymore. The country's urban centres are as cruel, if not more. More recent data and analysis is now bringing out the fact that, contrary to
