One important provision of the Bill is to a National Transportation Policy with a view to establish a planning framework within which transport bodies and all forms of road transport would operate.
Against claims of Rs 14,453 crore made by farmers for crop losses in kharif 2017 under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), insurance firms have paid a mere Rs 733 crore so far, a payout ratio
At least half of the country's population will live in towns and cities by 2050 creating a lot of pressure on housing sector and infrastructure, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said here today, while stressing
Currently, 34 power plants with capacity of about 40,000 MW and outstanding debts of Rs 1.74 lakh crore are stressed. Dealing another blow to the government’s 2005 initiative of developing ultra mega
Most of the leaders in the domestic renewable energy sector believe that developers have been irrationally aggressive while bidding for solar and wind power plants in the reverse auctions held by the central
Global temperatures have already risen a full degree Celsius since the mid-19th century, enough to disrupt weather patterns and boost deadly storms, droughts and floods. The shift of low-value, energy-hungry
The date of submission of bids for 5,000 MW inter-state transmission system (ISTS)-based solar projects (2000 MW and 3000 MW capacity) under the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) is likely to be
Undergoing the initial stages of the Saubhagya scheme, discoms of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have already flagged rising rural supply as key a contributor towards mounting aggregate technical and
A truly effective forest policy for India must be based on facilitating community-managed forests. The Draft 2018 POLICY undermines this instead. The government has recently released the draft National
As power demand increased in March 2018 due to various factors such as seasonal variations, inadequate availability of coal, short-term prices on the exchange surged sharply to Rs 4.02 per unit. At
DELHI: The national capital ranked sixth in terms of PM 2.5 with an annual average of 143 µg/m3 in 2016. A cocktail of toxic factors — ranging from industrial waste to vehicular emissions and road
