Hard hitting health impacts

In reel life, when things go wrong, the director takes recourse to a re take. Then there are the stunt men, who stand in for the hero when the going gets tough. In real life, there are no such provisions. Which is why it is time to take to take serious no

Cola Companies It was the year 1960. As the Democrat J F Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon

I met an eminent economist last week. He quoted another eminent economist cum columnist, and asked me if it was true that apples had higher pesticide residues than Coke or Pepsi. Before I could

• QUID PRO QUO: As a part of a swap deal, the Pennsylvania-based PPL Corp has decided to sell three of its nine hydroelectric dams in Maine, USA, to an umbrella group of government agencies and

august 5, 2003: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) releases report on pesticide residues in 12 major cold drink brands sold in and around Delhi. august 6: Pepsico India Holdings Limited and

With their reputation at stake, the soft drinks industry started a major public relations offence. After decades of some of the most glamorous and high profile lifestyle selling ad campaigns, it has now resorted to assuring its customers that its products

Heavy metal in cola sludge

The US beverage giants shell out billions to pop out punch lines, and repackage Shah Rukh Khan to counter the repackaged Aamir Khan and vice versa. Many do follow the Khan roadshow and jump on the cold drink bandwagon. But in West Bengal, some other heroe

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