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Interview with R.S. Pandey, Union Secretary for Steel.

BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

R.S. PANDEY:

This volume is part of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being that offers outstanding recent work in the transdisciplinary field of ecological economics, whose focus is the study of the relationship between economic activity and environmental sustainability.

The Access to Medicine Foundation, based in Haarlem, the Netherlands, has developed a set of criteria to assess how ethically pharmaceutical companies perform towards developing countries. It will make its ranking available online from 16 June and hopes investors will use it to decide which companies to invest in, while encouraging big pharma to make medicines available to poor people.

"IF THE best way to create the future is to invent it, we say the second-best way is to finance it." John Doerr is only half joking. He is one of the most influential venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, and he knows a thing or two about financing the future. But ask him what he's focused on now and you won't hear venture-capital buzz-phrases such as "Web 2.0". These days, Doerr is firmly focused on clean technology - and in particular, energy technologies that can save the planet from global warming.

CROSSING OVER: A little girl in Rajasthan goes to a state school supported by Mahindra & Mahindra

Healthy Brew: Differently-abled children benefit hugely from the training provided at Tata Tea's vocational centres (Pic By C.P. Shanmugham)

Hospet, a small town around 350 km from Bangalore, is perennially cloaked in a red dust that emanates from the scores of pit iron ore mines that dot the area. According to numerous watchdog groups, such as

Trying Hard: India's largest private sector company is making a late but concerted entry into CSR (Pic By Subhabrata Das)

Call it brand affinity. Kolkata-based Turtle, the men

The need for all corporate setup in India to define their responsibility primarily to help make the environment air pollution free or simply to "Go Green"-Jitendra Singh Chouhan

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