Only collective and proactive consumers can change the poor service quality of electricity companies, argues Nikit Abhyankar

June 12, 2006: A public hearing on Reliance Energy’s proposal to hike electricity tariffs for Mumbai consumers is on. The proposal was made public a month earlier. Number of people objecting to the proposal: six.    

October 3, 2006: Maharashtra Electricity...

Dr Nita Mukherjee describes how HOPES, Mumbai, is helping deal with hazardous medical waste

Increasing health care facilities around the country leads to an obvious increase in the bio-medical waste. A 2005 report estimated that of the total 7,000 tonnes of waste generated in Mumbai, almost 25 tonnes was medical waste. Few municipal authorities in the country have enacted rules for disposal...

Put your money in a liquid fund and wait for the correction

The year 2006 has been a smashing year, with corporate performance exceeding analysts’ expectations by miles, thanks to supply constraints which have transferred the pricing power in favour of companies. An industry like cement, which no one wanted to touch a few years ago, is on a roll. Cement companies now expect to recover the...