Showdown at Singur
Tata Motor's plant for the Nano car has been stalled as the CPI(M) and the Trinamul Congress battle it out
Business India (Mumbai)
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Drowned economy
Many people in the country are gripped by the destruction caused by floods in the Kosi river of Bihar, leading to vicious misery and displacement of nearly two-and-half million people there. However, floods are common and intrinsic to the Bihar economy.
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Boosting uranium mining
Even with the prospect of uranium imports on the horizon, the Centre was simultaneously working to step up its domestic uranium mining effort as a hedge against possible spikes in global uranium prices and supply disruption risks in the future.
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Bye, bye Singur
Tata Motors was planning to pull out of Singur in West Bengal, from where it was to roll out its low-cost car Nano.
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Heart of steel
Sesa Goa seems to be thriving despite various impositions
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Green portal
Last fortnight, the National Knowledge Commission (nkc) in association with the Centre for Science and Environment (cse), launched a one-stop shop for all that is green and concerns environment and development issues.
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Going green
'Greening' lowers operational costs for enterprises, while reducing carbon emission The 'go green' message is slowly touching the heart of enterprises' it infrastructure - the data centre.
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Surging deficit
A McKinsey study on India's power sector foresees the power deficit surging from 15,000 mw today to 70,000 mw by 2017.
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'The meeting has gone well for India'
The United Nation's ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (cop 9) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (cbd) was recently held in Bonn, Germany. Amidst contentions relating to bio-fuels and abs (Access and Benefit Sharing), Meena Gupta, secretary, ministry for environment and forests, finds time to give an update on India's position on these issues to Yashvendra Singh
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Power diplomacy
The time is ripe for a south Asian electricity market