Biofuels: The answer to India’s energy crisis

05 Oct
2008

by shishir | Tags: , , , ,

Bio fuels are being increasingly used as a climate friendly source of energy as opposed to other energy production methods. Bio fuels are derived from plants and emit less carbon dioxide and hence result in less green house effect.
Bio fuels have been an important source of energy in the United States of America, Brazil and [...]

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Mumbai Rains: Wake up BMC..!!!

06 Jul
2008

by coolabhi | Tags: , , , , , ,

Yes it’s raining….and everyone is enjoying that. It’s the blessing of rain God who came down for the rescue of Mumbaikars from the sweating summer. But since every coin has two faces, so when it comes for Mumbai rains , there are lots of problem.Trains, traffics, low-lying areas, schools and colleges suffer and more than [...]

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Rag pickers in modern day India

25 Jun
2008

by shishir | Tags: , ,

THE RAG pickers are as much a part of our society as we are. Just that they do not have the most respected or a dignified nine to five job. It’s a rag picker’s pride that he is not a beggar or a thief. You will find them almost every where scavenging the garbage cans [...]

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Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Investment Vs Justice

26 May
2008

by Rishabh Srivastava | Tags: , , , ,

BHOPAL, THE capital city of Madhya Pradesh, is also known as the centre of the ’biggest industrial disaster’ or the ‘Hiroshima of chemical industry’. On December 3, 1984, a union carbide pesticide producing plant leaked highly toxic cloud of methyl isocyanate into the air of a densely populated region of Bhopal. Of the 800,000 people [...]

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India today. Its been 60 years. Right??

16 Apr
2008

by Rachit Chandra | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Pride in being an Indian, nostalgia for what it must have been like in those heady days ahead of August 15th 1947. Looking at sepia-tinted images of Rajpath on the day India achieved freedom, one can imagine the frenzied crowds, the sense of utter joy at being a free nation. We take freedom for granted [...]

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A Truth little inconvenient…

07 Feb
2008

by Rachit Chandra | Tags: , , , , ,

I was though never insensitive to the critical and burning issue of environmental hazards, but the subject didn’t merit enough attention to put an extra effort in creative awareness. I used to really get agitated when I would see long processions of school children jamming the road. The scene was never a soothing one to [...]

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Nano: The cheapest car in the World!

11 Jan
2008

by shishir | Tags: , , , , ,

‘Innovation and Evolution’ were the Words echoing at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi as Ratan Tata dramatically unveiled the much awaited People’s Car a the 9th Auto Expo. ‘A Quest to conquer, a conquest for leadership and a conquest for achieving new avenues. Ratan Tata’s dream, his vision, his people’s car which every Indian can [...]

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Save Our Ragpickers!

21 Nov
2007

by Poonam Sharma | Tags: , ,

Have you ever noticed the rag pickers who daily forage into the garbage bin near your house? They are the people responsible for cleaning most of the stuff we throw in our garbage!
Chances are you have never noticed these rag pickers, but these poorest of the poor rag pickers are the ones who not [...]

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DOWn and out : Kick them

31 Oct
2007

by Rishabh Srivastava | Tags: , , , , ,

Bhopal, the “Hiroshima of the chemical industry,” is the world’s worst-ever industrial disaster. “During the trial, Carbide’s lawyers had argued, shockingly, that an American life was worth more than an Indian life”.
The Union Carbide India, Limited (UCIL) plant was established in 1969 and had expanded to produce carbaryl in 1979; MIC is an intermediate in [...]

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Ban That Bulb!

18 Oct
2007

by Poonam Sharma | Tags: ,

Everyone I talk to seems to know that we should not use incandescent bulbs. Rather, we should use CFL bulbs that save money and help in energy conservation. Yet we have not been able to either ban or phase out incandescent bulbs. Forget rural areas, you will be appalled at the bulb and electricity statistics [...]

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