Is Mumbai railway ready for carbon credits? With the new braking and duct systems, the MRVC will save energy, which is estimated to translate to Rs 100 crore annually. The project will save almost 0.25 million tonnes of CO2.
Stem cells
Misleading skin creams But a word of caution before you plunk down $80 or $155 for these potions: They might be no better than existing anti-aging skin creams, the best of which spur the skin to work harder...
Revisiting a war through a film Soon after war unexpectedly broke out on the border between Israel and Lebanon in 2006, Yariv Mozer, then a 28-year-old Israeli reservist, was called up to the front. With him, he took his rifle and his video camera.
Consumer Corner
Clout poverty The countermotion is of interest to us because the activists concern is over a pesticide factory that is described as a sister plant to the one in Bhopal that saw the worlds worst industrial accident in 1984.
Priceless... A 1935 painting by Winston Churchill of a Moroccan sunset, 'Sunset Over the Atlas Mountains'. Churchill loved the view so much that he invited US President Franklin D Roosevelt to see it. The painting has sold for $350,000, an auction company website says. AP
As many candidates have made it a habit to change parties just to contest elections, should the people of Karnataka reject the party-hoppers lock, stock and barrel ?
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