History of recycling

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To say that our world has problems would be an understatement. We seem to have no end of problems, some of them leading to crises of sorts.

Kingfisher Airlines Part 2 - the flight of fancy

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Kingfisher Airlines was launched with a great deal of enthusiasm and fanfare. Founded in 2003 by the Bengaluru-based United Breweries Group

A ballpoint for outer space

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The alarm went off, shattering the peace inside the spaceship. Everyone dropped their electric blankets and rose up, wondering what had happened. Had a meteor hit the spaceship?

Kingfisher Airlines Part 1 - the backdrop

By Aniket Gupta | 15 Sep 2023

Formerly one of the most prominent airlines, of the initial airline liberalization days, Kingfisher Airlines has plunged into a bottomless abyss.

Tinplate vs. plastic containers: which is more environmentally friendly? - Part 3

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The environmental impact of tinplate and plastic containers extends beyond their production and disposal phases.

Tinplate vs. plastic containers: which is more environmentally friendly? - Part 2

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The history of plastic containers is a journey of innovation, versatility, and widespread adoption that has shaped the modern packaging landscape.

Tinplate vs. plastic containers: which is more environmentally friendly? - Part 1

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As people become increasingly conscious of the environmental impact of our consumption habits, we are pushed to make choices between what we are habituated to doing and what we should be doing.

Bengaluru suffers staggering Rs.20,000 crore annual loss due to traffic congestion

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$40-50 billion target for Indian technical textiles

By Cygnus | 28 Jul 2023

The technical textile segment in India has experienced robust growth, in domestic sales and in exports, and the government is predicting a doubling of the market in the next five years.

You don’t have to be James Bond to travel on a flying boat!

By A Correspondent | 19 Jul 2023

Flying boats are a reality. And they’ve been so for decades. Hovercraft, which are flying boats that literally float in the air have been in use since the late 1950s.

Amar Bose

By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Jul 2023

Had it not been for a strange twist of fate more than a century ago, the Bose speakers, considered the best in their class of products, might never have been created, or even been imagined!

Potato shaving cream

By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Mar 2023

One day I was sitting with some friends, when one of them, who was working with a marketing agency, asked the rest of us

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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
by Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists | 11 Feb 2014
Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm
by Harold James | 26 Feb 2012
The Waste Makers
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The Naked Society
by Vance Packard | 01 Jan 1964
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