Indian sanitation expert and founder of Sulabh sanitation movement in India, Bindeshwar Pathak has been awarded the prestigious 2009 Stockholm Water prize. The award akin to a Nobel Prize on......
Anyone within range of China's expanding navy will have to build capabilities faster and/or work more closely with the US, as Australia has just announced, asserts T N Ninan. IMAGE: Indian naval......
An India-born water management expert has been awarded the $150,000 Stockholm Water Prize for his multi-faceted contribution to global water resource issues, including research, education and......
Over a hundred world leaders including the Indian prime minister will be at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio. It is likely to be one of the biggest conferences of its kind, says......
'Previous governments in India had reservations about working with Israel.''Modi has shed this tag.''Disengaging itself from its traditional and ideological foreign policy approach in the Middle......
As the world stands on the verge of a massive food crisis and the poor grapple for even staple food, a new report co-authored by UN has come out with figures stating the amount of food being wasted......
There has been a welcome focus on fundamental reforms, time-bound programmes that fix accountability and the use of technology. The upcoming Budget could build on these initiatives, says Abhas Jha.......
Technology firms like Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Google, besides research institutes, are helping make cities more responsive to the needs and desires of inhabitants The 250,000 citizens of Songdo,......
Indra K. Nooyi says she still feels guilty filling a bathtub with water. It sounds far-fetched coming from the chief executive of a major multinational corporation, until you consider her early......