Baghdad is drowning in sewage, thirsty for water and largely powerless, an Iraqi official said on Sunday in a grim assessment of services in the capital five years after the US-led invasion. One of three sewage treatment plants is out of commission, one is working at stuttering capacity while a pipe blockage in the third […]
100 sexiest women 2006
The results of the twelfth FHM Sexiest Women in the World Awards have been announced, and it’s enough to make your little British heart swell with pride as Teddington’s finest export, Keira Knightley, tops the poll for the first time. And making it a double dose of British beauties is page 3 fave and gossip […]
Things we can do to Slow down Global Warming
Global Warming is in the news almost everyday – in newspapers and on television news broadcasts – around the world. Extreme weather conditions and climatic changes that are experienced across the globe have indeed become concerns of great proportion. Scientific records, in fact, indicate that the last 15 years have seen the 10 warmest years […]
Living by Candle Light
Some years ago I made a trip from Ballia in Uttar Pradesh to Patna– an episode I will long remember. The journey we were told would take about five hours we were told but since it was raining we left afternoon giving the trip a little more time than we were told was needed. We […]
Development of wind energy
In a country that has struggled to build conventional electricity infrastructure, India has enjoyed surprising early success with the development of wind energy. Much of this is due to the rise of a strong entrepreneurial culture in the sector, thanks largely to Tulsi Tanti, the chairman and managing director of Suzlon Energy, India’s biggest wind […]
Push solar energy, not nuclear
It is inexhaustible and readily available almost all over the country all round the year Nuclear energy is costly to install, full of risks for operation and maintenance, and too costly to de-commission. (That is why there was no response to Thatcher’s call for bids in […]