Tata Swach serves 5 lakh litres of water to devotees at Mahakumbh

On Tuesday, 50-year-old Shashi Reyna was left in the lurch, like many other citizens, when the SWaCH waste pickers suddenly refused to collect the adult diapers of her 81-year-old ailing father. ...

Waste pickers in Pune force corporates and the municipality to address safe disposal of sanitary napkins Members of SWaCH at a press conference with bags of soiled sanitary napkins addressed to the manufacturers (Photographs Courtesy : SWACH)

TTK Prestige, the maker of pressure cookers and kitchen appliances, is getting ready to enter India's Rs 3,200-crore water purifier market where big names such as Aquaguard (Eureka Forbes), Pureit (Hindustan Unilver), Swach (Tata Chemicals) and Kent ...

Sales of bottled water are set to overtake carbonated drinks globally over the next two years, according to a new survey. Ramesh Chauhan, Chairman and Managing Director, Bisleri International, insists that bottled water has triumphed the leading ...

India's culture of jugaad, or frugal innovation, has helped produce a wide range of sustainable breakthroughs. Are there lessons there for the rest of the world? Ian Thornton meets the innovators. "What we're doing is essentially space technology at ...

Scrap collection is considered socially relevant, economically productive and environmentally beneficial "work". In fact, India has one of the highest recycling rates in the world, thanks mainly to this army of waste pickers who are mostly women. In ...

Slightly more than a decade after India officially embarked on a concerted Rs.1,000 crore effort to accelerate nanoscience and build an industrial base reliant on nanotechnology applications, it has doubled its share of research publications in the ...

At the "Women Wellness Day Campaign" held at the Likas Hospital yesterday co-organiser of the event, Datuk Agnes Shim repeated her earlier calls to women to take care of their health in a proactive way by having regular checkups to detect potential ...

J. Chandrasekaran believes in improving rural lives in a sustainable fashion RELATED STORIES Though J. Chandrasekaran has a B.Sc in Chemistry and a post-graduate degree in plastics, he is a tinkerer by nature who is constantly looking to improve ...