The country’s largest transporter is taking proactive steps to increase the use of renewables in its energy mix that would see as much as 25% of its operations powered through eco-friendly sources by 2025
Called the lifeline of the country, Indian Railways, which is still a preferred mode of transport for the masses, has started greening its act. Of the 1GW renewables target by 2021…Read More
An installation artist responds to the destruction around her by recreating the mindless mayhem city authorities routinely unleash on unsuspecting citizens
If you live in India’s capital, you don’t think much of more blocks of uprooted concrete on the streets. “Oh yes, someone’s digging for something or the other, again,” you tell yourself. If you’re driving, you give another grunt of annoyance…Read More
The vast amounts of garbage and waste that India produces can be turned into biogas and other fuels by using techniques such as the Fischer Tropsch Synthesis that also reduces carbon dioxide emissions
In his first Independence Day speech after becoming Prime Minister, Narendra Modi announced that he would make Swachh Bharat one of his government’s most important goals…Read More
The consequences of the Farakka Barrage on southwestern Bangladesh have been devastating, driving migration into Assam and West Bengal, and inflaming ethnic conflict, argues Ashok Swain
The Bangladesh-India relationship is complex in nature, but one issue has dominated it: politics over the Ganga. The Ganga water sharing issue goes back to 1951, when Bangladesh was…Read More
With temperatures already topping 40 degrees Celsius in many places and a tepid outlook for an ample monsoon by some forecasters, southern Asia is likely to suffer through yet another recording-breaking summer
If it’s this hot in March, what will it be like in April, May or June? That has been the inevitable conversation starter in India and Pakistan…Read More
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