Author and researcher Dean Spears asserts that India’s air pollution does not merely kill children, it also impacts each generation of survivors
They wait for a miracle to save the workers trapped in a coal mine in Meghalaya
A badly conceived regulator would serve no purpose in this crucial sector
The poor of Jharkhand depend on cycle peddlers for their coal—peddlers who, by law, are thieves
Coal need not be thrown open to the private sector for the country to exploit its vast potential
It was in the 1980s, when two scrap mafia gangs got involved in a bloody rivalry, that the British Raj era town earned its notoriety
Having averaged about 5.5 per cent growth over the past five years, Indonesia now nurtures a desire to join the BRIC league.
Extracted through rat holes, coal has made a select few in Meghalaya very rich. It is also creating a dirty mess that nobody wants to own up to.