Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious “100 smart cities” project is all set to get the backing of the US. India and the US are expected to sign an...

Indo-US love is in the air and the air is highly toxic. Quite literally! American security agencies are obsessing with President Obama’s security...

A distinctive feature of a modern house is an array of electrical and electronic appliances in it. Sunil Sinha, a banker in Meerut, remembers the days...

India needs a landfill the size of West Bengal to dump 21,630 million tonnes of construction and demolition (C&D) waste it will generate from...

In 2009 when the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) decided to get new office space for its 600-odd officials, the then minister Jairam...

Rich house owners, the urban minority, will benefit from AAP’s power and water subsidies and they will certainly not pass on this benefit to the...

Ever since I started cycling to work I’ve been at the receiving end of too much sympathy. At times I am made to feel like a poor disillusioned...

Everyone seems to be getting something constructed (directly or indirectly) nowadays. My government, my boss, my neighbour, my father, in fact my...

Sitting in his office, French architect Satprem Maini says bricks and reinforced cement concrete (RCC) are among the most used products in modern...

Air-conditioners and water heaters were the biggest energy guzzlers in his house, believed Atul Prakash until he was told about the energy footprint...