India’s western booming city of Pune will see the inauguration of a Waste to Energy plant set up by Concord Blue at Ramtekdi Industrial Area on the outskirts of Pune in an area of 2.5 acres allotted by PMC. The 1 MW plant which will be expanded to 10 MW eventually promises to solve Pune’s […]

Indian Real Estate India has for long lacked an agency to control the monopolistic and predatory practices of Indian companies. The old MTRP Act had become quite toothless after the 1991 reforms and the Indian industry had turned into the wild west. Monopolies and oligopolies could operate quite freely and there was nobody to investigate price fixing and […]

China is the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels and its intermediates like crystalline silicon ingots, wafers and cells. The country is also the biggest exporter of solar panels with exports of nearly $35 billion in 2011 alone. However the massive oversupply and bankruptcy of western solar companies has led to a massive backlash against […]

Solar Panels As Dowry The best way to see if a durable appliance is becoming a part of common household item in India is to check whether it is being given as part of the dowry when a father marries off his daughter. By that yardstick cheap crystalline solar panels in India have become a […]

Real Estate Bubble in India Indian real estate prices are one of the highest in the world in terms of affordability as median real estate price to median income ratio is almost 300, in India’s economic capital of Mumbai. There are a number of reasons given by real estate companies in India to justify the […]

Commodity Market Two of the most respected market analysts have radically opposite positions on where the commodity cycle is right now. While Michael Pettis thinks that the commodity cycle has peaked and hard commodities will crash by 2015, Grantham thinks there has been a paradigm change in commodities which will keep on increasing in price. […]