Environment
Outrage as trophy hunter bags UK’s biggest animal
28 Oct 2010
What has especially drawn outrage is that the Emperor was callously felled close to a busy main road in Devon
HC lifts stay on sand mining in Maharashtra
27 Oct 2010
Posco panel majority insists chair is wrong
20 Oct 2010
MoEF nod for neutrino excavation in TN forest area
19 Oct 2010
The project, being jointly implemented by the atomic energy department and the TIFR, involves digging a 2-km deep hole through solid igneous rock to study sub-atomic particles. The environment ministry has cleared it subject to caveats.
Green panel on Posco waffles over verdict
18 Oct 2010
Resources of two worlds needed to cope with consumption
15 Oct 2010
A study backed by the world’s leading environmental organisations concludes that it will need ‘two earths’ by 2030 to sustain the current pace of human consumption
Google-led investors in $5-bn offshore energy project
13 Oct 2010
Google, Marubeni and New York investment firm Good Energies have teamed up to finance the gigantic Atlantic Wind Connection project to accelerate offshore wind development to power 1.9 million homes in the US
Human activities overload ecosystems with nitrogen
09 Oct 2010
The ecological damage is serious, but could be reduced by wider use of more sustainable, time-honoured practices
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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