By Ajay Adiseshann, * 24 trees. That's the number of trees that need to be cut to make one ton of uncoated, non-recycled printing and office paper. *10.6 per cent. That's how much India's per capita consumption of paper grew this year, poised to grow and touch 25...
By Amit Kapoor, Farmers across the nation are on strike, cutting off vegetables and milk supplies to cities, demanding better prices, loan waivers, power supply and ethanol as fuel -- all this hailing from the Swaminathan Commission's recommendations. It makes one...
(June 5 is World Environment Day) By Dr Bradnee Chambers, Thanks to the wonders of modern industrial technology we are now producing 20 times as much plastic as we were doing in 1964. If the current trend continues, output will double in 20 years and double again by...
By Vikas Datta, What makes a literary work a classic? The readers' opinion or a prominent literary figure's certification? Or could it be, as many literary critics suggest, the enduring relevance of its motifs and message, beyond the space and time it portrays? By...
By Peter Alagos, The ‘Own your Factory in Qatar in 72 Hours’ project, a government initiative aimed at fast-tracking the establishment of more manufacturing companies and factories in Qatar, has attracted 9,349 applications from local and international companies...
By Saeed Naqvi, Pardon the postscript first. With the appointment of Giuseppe Conte, a lawyer, as a compromise Prime Minister of Italy, the wheel has come full circle. But before the Italian see-saw could stabilise, Spains Mariano Rajoy has thrown in his towel in the...
By Amulya Ganguli, It will be a mistake to ascribe the defeats of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Kairana, Noorpur and Bhandara-Gondiya by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra only to the tie-ups among its opponents. While there is little doubt that in...
By Frank Islam Since the beginning of this year, there have been a spate of books such as Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury; David Cay Johnston’s It’s Even Worse than You Think; and James Comey’s A Higher Loyalty that “spill the beans” on Donald Trump. While entertaining...
By Taponeel Mukherjee, The decision by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to grant banks the option to spread provisioning equally over up to four quarters for mark-to-market (MTM) losses on investments is one that merits discussion. These investments are those held in...
By V. Jagdish, Five minutes. This thin, precious, slice of time is all the window one gets to escape a fire accident. For a firefighter, the countdown that begins with the distress call turns into agonising moments of helplessness as his fire truck navigates traffic...