'The man stood alone, fought alone.''Some of those battles appeared Quixotic at times.''Ultimately, it was he who won though it may have seemed as if a Sancho Panza was fighting a relentless battle......
The take home message from the grid failure is that the paradigm of centralised generation of electricity and grid-based distribution has outlived its usefulness, notes Gopal Krishna. The......
President A P J Abdul Kalam visited Tirunelveli on Friday. This is his first visit to Tirunelveli after he became the President. After visiting Kanyakumari in the morning he arrived in Koodangulam......
The Mahindra group's Igatpuri plant has become the first in India to be declared carbon-neutral. Ashish Narsale / Rediff.com reports from the factory on how this was achieved. IMAGE:......
On the index, India has a score of 4.52 while that of Switzerland is 5.81 India has climbed 16 places to the 39th rank on the Global Competitiveness Index prepared by the World Economic Forum as......
Use of solar energy in a big way, launching of waste-to-energy project and proliferation of compressed natural gas in train operations are some of the green initiatives likely to be announced in......
Last December, IndusInd Bank inaugurated Mumbai's first solar-powered ATM as part of its "Green Office Project" campaign titled "Hum aur Hariyali". With the solar-powered ATM, the bank expects to......
The US President, Barack Obama, on Tuesday said that the US economy is growing again, but it has a long way to go. "We have got a long way to go before this recovery is felt in the lives of our......
Renowned cricket journalist Peter Roebuck, who died on Saturday, wrote this column for Rediff.com on Sachin Tendulkar's 100th Test appearance.Sachin Tendulkar is a remarkable young man whose......