How much would it cost to set up a company manufacturing 6,600 tonnes of calcium hypochlorite, 9,900 tonnes of stable bleaching powder, 2,400 tonnes of monochloro acetic acid, 49,500 tonnes of sulphuric acid, 33,000 tonnes of chlorosulphonic acid, 65 tonnes of bromine across four factories in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and allied services like a 9MW biomass power project? Certainly not Rs17...

Where will the bulls get their strength from?

Last fortnight, I had asked whether we are at the b`eginning of a tradable rally. “The reason for the glimmer of hope for bullish traders,” I wrote, “is that the foreign markets have crashed much more and may be due for a counter trend rally. If there is no fresh bad news on the domestic front, a short bounce may be on the cards. This, of course,...

Shikshantar is making a difference in education. Dr Nita Mukherjee describes how

At the turn of this century, when Manish and Vidhi Jain returned from the US, many friends asked what they planned to do. Manish’s answer was: “to unlearn my Master’s degree in Education from Harvard University.” And for Vidhi, it was to provide for children like her daughter Kanku, “real shiksha or natural...