How I survived 4 days of Chennai floods

‘Things are far from normal. The roads are still under several feet of water and every time we venture out, it is a nightmare wading through the water that is no longer flowing but stagnant,......

Foul-smelling froth bubbles out of lake in Bengaluru

Varthur lake, considered one of the biggest water bodies in Bengaluru, has been filled with a pile of froth after recent rains mixed with untreated sewage were let out into it, raising health......

Waste pickers in Pune teach municipality cleanliness lesson

Waste pickers in Pune force corporates and the municipality to address safe disposal of sanitary napkins, notes Soma BasuFor two years, a waste pickers’ cooperative in Pune had been trying to......

Water treatment, access becomes fast-growing biz

Orders are flowing for the water and wastewater treatment industry, as leading players in the domestic market such as VA Tech Wabag, Larsen and Toubro, Thermax and IVRCL Infra have bagged over Rs......

Finance minister's Budget Speech

The following is the speech that Finance Minister Jaswant Singh made in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday while presenting the Interim Budget for 2004-05.Mr Speaker,1. I rise to present an Interim Budget,......

Water scarcity threatens IPL kickoff in Bengaluru?

Water crisis in Bengaluru might not affect three first-leg IPL matches: KSCA The acute water shortage in the city might not pose any immediate threat to the three IPL first-leg matches to be......

Bengaluru to host IPL 9 final

'We will propose before the IPL Governing Council that Final and Qualifier 1 be shifted to Bengaluru, while Qualifier 2 and Eliminator to Kolkata' IMAGE: General view of the Chinnaswamy Stadium in......

Shift IPL matches after April 30 out of Maharashtra, HC tells BCCI

IMAGE: The groundstaff water the pitch at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. Photograph: PTI In a big blow to the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the Bombay high court on Wednesday ordered......

IPL faces water heat in Bengaluru, PIL filed in Karnataka HC

IMAGE: The groundstaff water the pitch at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. Photograph: PTI An environmental activist in Bengaluru on Monday filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Karnataka......