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RAJASTHAN Chief Minister Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and his cabinet are busy wooing Israeli expertise in, of all things, water management. The first entrant is Tahal Consulting Engineers Ltd, a Tel

Scientists have developed a product that will go a long way in helping standardise measurements of water pollution

The Indian Railways has raised a stink by opting for an outdated Canadian software programme for controlling its freight operations

IT IS painted bright red with big black spots and looks like a cross between a lady bug and a toy car. It is the ultra-mini Haishen or the "car for the masses" that is about to hit the gigantic

Rice in Indonesian folklore has the status of the love hate relationship of a couple

On the outskirts of Jaipur is the 5-year-old, 30-acre Anokhi Farms, perhaps the largest in Rajasthan utilising Israeli drip irrigation technology. Owner John Singh, a garment exporter, was impressed

A new method has been adopted to measure water pollution

Indonesian farmers are seething with anger at the government's penchant for building golf resorts. To make way for the greens, the peasants are being forced to move out in search of other pastures,

Associations lending a hand in preventing and curing blindness

By allowing industrial plantations on forest land, the ministry of environment and forests has become profiteering industry's captive