Changing lives
Kerala's state poverty eradication mission has a phenomenal organisation of women even by global perspective
Business India (Mumbai)
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Going green
Old handsets have a knack of getting handed down, rarely discarded. According to the results of a global consumer survey, conducted by Nokia on 6,500 people in 13 countries as far-flung as Germany, the UAE, USA, Nigeria, India and China, only 3 per cent of people recycle their
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Fuming at the exhaust
West Bengal's Left Front government is sitting on a powder keg even as Mamata Banerjee walks around with a lighted match. In a year in which the Lok Sabha elections are due and a hobbling economy has spread widespread anxiety in the cities, the quasi-ban on Kolkata's polluting auto rickshaws is like the last straw for the state government.
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A nuclear windfall
Curiously, the opening up of India's nuclear energy market has seen a simultaneous nuclear renaissance in the US and UK Nuclear technology titans the world over are vying for the $150 billion sweepstakes of India's nuclear power market now being pried open up by the US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement of October 2006.
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NREGA spin-off
The scheme is creating an experienced rural supervisory cadre
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Little car, big problem
India needs to relook at its land acquisition acts When the Nano and Ratan Tata were sent scuttling out of Singur by a rent-seeking Mamata Banerjee, they didn't make landfall in Gujarat at first go. They looked at various site alternatives to set up shop for the Nano, the Rsl lakh small car. Like Banerjee, other activists for farmers' rights moved into sabotage mode elsewhere.
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Cheer runneth over
For the tea industry, the wheel of fortune could be turning up, and this becomes a matter of great importance to the entire North east as well as southern India
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The march of the green flag
Thomas Friedman, the three-time Pulitzer prize winner and foreign affairs columnist of The New York Times, built a bonding with book readers and avid students and followers of the international politics with his 2005 bestseller, The World is Flat.
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Ore woes
Goa's post-monsoon iron ore exports season has begun on a dull note, with hardly any significant shipments being booked to meet the overseas orders.
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Cash crop
It has all the potential to nestle cheek by jowl with international brands such as Dom Perignon, Mexico's tequila and the famed Johnnie Walker Scotch. And realising its huge revenue potential, the government of Goa is pulling all strings to ensure that the cashew industry, both kernel and feni, is protected and given a boost.