The state needs great numbers of new-generation entrepreneurs.
Why are the poor turning Right instead of turning toward far-Left parties, ponders Pranab Bardhan.
Adani Mining is building a 300-km rail line for its about $16 billion Carmichael coal mine project in Australia.
'I love clean air but Russia and China, you look at a map you have all these spots and India and many others are spewing it in. What do you suggest?'
Putin is looking beyond the current regime in Kyiv. Of course, if the Western military assistance to Kyiv continues in any form, Washington knows that Russia will regard it as a hostile act and there will be severe consequences, predicts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'Greenpeace has been brutal in targeting both India and the Manmohan Singh government. The push to go after Indian coal is driven by its long-term agenda. What is surprising is that China has not been meted out the same treatment, despite the fact that the rise of China as an economic power has been built around generating power from coal. 'Being richer and more affluent, yet far less democratic, there is less room for an NGO such as Greenpeace to drive home a complicated global agenda, so there is more of a tendency to go along with anything the Chinese offer despite China being the biggest by far with regard to coal use. But for India, it reserves tougher prescriptions, notably for its middle class, says Srinivas Bharadwaj.
On Monday, Greenpeace activist Brikesh Singh will leave the tree house close to the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, where he has spent nearly a month protesting against the brutal sacrifice of forests, wildlife and forest dwellers for coal.
India is, indeed, particularly vulnerable to this menace.
Delhi recorded an air quality index of 315 at 11:10 am. The last time the air quality hit such a poor level was in February.
The gas blast occurred at 1450 hours on Monday at the No 3316 working face of Sunjiawan colliery about 242 metres underground, vice-general manager of the Fuxin coal industry group, Zhang Yunfu said.
Infrastructure ministries asked to quickly resolve issues.
The Hindutva social media continues to present the DMK especially as anti-god, anti-Hindu and anti-Brahmin. The strategy did not work in the past, it has not worked in the present, and would not work in the future, as a massive vote-getter, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
Jiya ho Bihar ke lala, Jiye tu hazaar Saal a song from Gangs Of Wasseypur.
While home-grown firms like Tata and Mahindra have been actively participating in the government's e-mobility mission, by launching electrified versions of their existing models, the global firms believe electric is not the best solution for a country where the primary source of power generation is coal, and where infrastructure is a big impediment.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Oil tanked to a 7-year low as OPEC decided to maintain production.
Things have come to a grinding halt as thick smog has suffocated China. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled, with schools in the region closed and motorways gridlocked as people try to escape the poor conditions.
The group plans Rs 30,000-cr oil refinery with IOC; buys Lanco's Udupi power plant for Rs 6,000 cr
Over 18 crore workers are expected to participate making this a much bigger strike than last year.
Rating agency Crisil said on Friday that Asian spot LNG prices are expected to go up in the short term due to power generation disruptions in Japan.
President Trump originally announced his intention to withdraw from the agreement in 2017 and formally notified the United Nations last year. The US exited the pact after a mandatory year-long waiting period that ended on Wednesday.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
VP Ansari thanked Polish leadership for its support to India's bid for NSG membership,
'We should credit Prime Minister Modi with having foresight and courage and showing leadership on climate change.'
To justify that farmers must burn if they are not paid cash incentive is doing injustice to them and to the lungs of the children of the country, notes Sunita Narain.
In power, Mamata Banerjee has tried to bury the ghost of the past, but it might still be work-in-progress. Big-ticket and eye-grabbing (in terms of investment size) projects are still few and far between, reports Ishita Ayan Dutt.
All of south Mumbai and parts of central Mumbai are without power on Tuesday after a unit of Tata Power tripped.
The private discoms that join the scheme would only benefit in terms of operational efficiency and there will not be any financial bailout
The Hockey Junior World Cup Men is scheduled to take place from December 8 till December 18, in Lucknow, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Thursday confirmed.
At India Economic Convention organised by India Foundation, Parekh said the country needs $1 trillion in the 12th Plan of which 47 per cent was to come from private sector, but it has not happened in the first two years of the Plan period.
Senior journalist Darryl D'Monte reports exclusively for Rediff.com from Paris.
Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tall claims that no one has served nature more than India, some of the steps taken by his BJP government proves that the ground reality is exactly opposite, says Devanik Saha.
'And for the developing lungs of our children, this should not be tolerated. Not at all,' says Sunita Narain.
As India gets increasingly urbanised, one man tries to minimise its silent casualty.
The group will be in a better position to now scale up most of its segments irrespective of government policy, but the bad news others add is its growing debt.
Inter-ministerial programmes have run into obstacles as rules written by bureaucrats hamper rather than promote investments.
Dhirendra Mulkalwar, one of the protestors who raised a protest banner at Essar's Mumbai headquarters, on why he joined Greenpeace's Junglistan group that is working to save India's forests.
'Where children are told soothing bedtime tales, our daily fare were stories of the bloodshed my family had witnessed, scenes, my father said, of the sewers turning red and the overpowering stench of corpses,' remembers Sunil Sethi.
'How can you have massages on trains in the presence of other lady passengers?'
