Women power
A small group supported by the Deepak Foundation is helping empower women in Gujarat's villages. The Trust originally set up to succour Saurashtra's cyclone victims, transformed in the early 90's
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Water relief
With a stroke of a spade and a streak of common sense, Castrol India last year produced an answer to Rajasthan's sweltering summer and the sagging sales of its lubricant, CRB plus. CRB plus used in
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Real potential
India needs 41 million dwellings at an investment of Rs 2,00,000 crore. There is demand for 15 million homes in urban centres alone. Another Rs 2,50,000 crore is needed to provide the infrastructure.
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A silent emergency
By the year 2015, Delhi is expected to run out of groundwater, at current usage rates. Lake Chad in Africa, which supplies water to 20 million people in six countries, has shrunk by 95 per cent in
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The power of one
Naandi, an NGO promoted by four business houses, has changed lives for people in Andhra Pradesh. Under Naandi's guidance, farmers were trained to manage these schemes as a business venture and
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Ruling vs regulation
Come September, Delhi may well witness once again he madness that marked its public transport for a short time in April. The Supreme Court, in 1999, had fixed the last day of March 2001 as the
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New beginnings
After decades of a war of attrition, work has finally begun on the Narmada Valley projects in Madhya Pradesh. The bigger surprise: this time the pace is unlikely to be hampered either by lack of
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Will coal remain king?
The coal industry faces several problems which, if not tackled expeditiously, will only worsen in the years to come
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Reducing pollution good for profit
Companies will find it makes sense to reduce pollution and adopt good governance
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Taxing polluters
Without question, public interest is frightfully undermined in a state where law enforcers themselves largely subvert the rule of law. On the face of it, India has an ironclad legal structure to combat any threat to the environment: as many as 420 Acts, rules, notifications and provisos have been legislated to safeguard the environment and prosecute the polluter.