An Israeli startup says its new technology will save the planet, scientists have doubtsFormed three years ago by a group of entrepreneurs in Israel, the company says it has designed particles that when released in the ocean wi...
03 Jul, 2025, 09.25 PM IST
There are PSU stocks, and there are PSU businesses. Choose the business. 57 PSU stocks, some good, some not so goodA year back, on the day the results of 2024 general elections were getting declared, PSU stocks as a set suffered a sudden setback. From be...
04 Jun, 2025, 04.15 PM IST
China's landfills brim with textile waste as fast fashion reigns and recycling takes a back seatIn China, the world’s largest textile producer and consumer, more than 26 million tons of clothes are thrown away each year, according to g...
10 Jul, 2024, 10.31 AM IST
Mini is mighty: How Patna-based Husk Power is electrifying rural areas around the worldWhile some of the world’s top renewable energy firms are facing financial constraints, a Patna-based company with a unique business model i...
27 Nov, 2023, 09.51 AM IST
How a fertiliser shortage is spreading desperate hungerAdding to the troubles around Ukraine's grain exports and world's food supply, fertiliser is also now in short supply and becoming costly.
16 Oct, 2023, 09.59 AM IST
The real-world costs of the digital race for bitcoinIn Texas, the computers kept running until just after midnight. Then the state’s power grid operator ordered them shut off, under an agreem...
11 Apr, 2023, 08.58 AM IST
Kerala’s product diversification, modernisation give India’s coir industry the winning touchThe finer details of the spread might create the best mats the world has ever seen and could change the character of the coir industry in t...
27 Mar, 2016, 11.12 AM IST
New cooking method turns manure, corn husks into biofuelsCooking farm waste yields compact, easily transportable material that will not degrade and can be used in energy-producing plants.
18 Dec, 2014, 04.07 PM IST
Eight unusual MBA aspirants pursuing management studies, but not for cushy jobsThese youth are not pursuing an MBA as a means to bag a cushy corporate job but to add value to the interesting things they have already do...
06 Oct, 2014, 12.17 PM IST
We hope the idea of social enterprises becomes redundant: Jacqueline Novogratz, AcumenAll enterprises are expected to serve & make profit in a way that makes us all proud, says Acumen Founder Jacqueline Novogratz.
01 Jun, 2013, 10.32 AM IST
NS Raghavan on way to change Indian philanthropyWhat NSR hopes to do is chaperone Indian philanthropy from a charitable, crisis-alleviation mode to a sector that can perhaps take on, and ...
02 Jul, 2011, 11.11 AM IST
- A look at three models of philanthro-capitalism
A market based approach to philanthropy, with one eye firmly on the bottom line, can be an effective way for entrepreneurs to meet their so...
03 May, 2011, 02.40 AM IST
- Charity Reinvented: Disruptive approach to philanthropy
Many of the world's richest men & women built their business fortunes through disruptive innovations in the for-profit sector. Now, they ar...
07 Jan, 2011, 01.53 AM IST
- It's payback time for NRIs from Bihar
Bihar watchers are now saying that the “brain drain” is finally paying dividend.
08 Mar, 2010, 05.34 AM IST
- Gen Y entrepreneurs bet big on clean-tech innovations
It is not everyday that a young consultant at McKinsey & Co trades in a job at the firm’s Seattle office for the rough and tumble of busine...
03 Feb, 2010, 03.35 AM IST
- Rice husk power: Virginia venture for Bihar villages
Two Virginia University students have started a project with an India-based partner to supply electricity to villages in Bihar by burning r...
14 May, 2008, 09.51 AM IST
- SEZ for renewable energy devices in Tamil Nadu
India’s first-of-its kind special economic zone (SEZ) for manufacturing and testing of non-conventional energy equipment is all set to come...
18 Oct, 2006, 03.02 AM IST