Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board in the matter of Suo Moto case titled "Haryana 60.48% groundwater over exploited Kurukshetra worst Jhajjar best says" appearing in the Tribune, January 8, 2025. The CGWA report, May 3, 2025 addresses the issue of groundwater exploitation and violation of …
European Union lawmakers backed a proposal on Tuesday to allow the EU Commission to prop up record low carbon prices by withholding 1.4 billion permits from the third phase of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, sending prices 20 percent higher. The majority of the members of the European Parliament's cross-party …
It's easy to achieve 10 p.c. conservation at homes with proper handling of electrical, electronic gadgets Discussions on brands, prices, offers, and value-additions in a product are common when it comes to buying a gadget for home. However, how many of us tend to know about the energy efficiency of …
From installing solar panels to using LED lights, hotels across country are trying to curb their high energy costs Year-end incentives of top executives at InterContinental hotels in India have been linked to a new target—the cost of energy their hotels consume. Energy bills at the hotels have risen to …
The state government has asked AP power utilities to chalk out an action plan for a energy-saving awareness programme in rural and urban areas. With demand for power in the state growing exponentially and in an unprecedented manner, the department of energy plans to save more than 15,000 million units …
A shift to renewable energy would ultimately cost around the same as business as usual and the EU needs to make progress on setting a 2030 target for greener fuel soon, the bloc's energy commissioner said. Guenther Oettinger was laying out the European Union's latest road map for mostly eliminating …
New Delhi Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday called for increasing efforts to reduce energy intensity of the economy and also increase domestic production of commercial energy as part of the country’s energy security strategy. “Since we are largely dependent on fossil fuels, any improvement in the energy efficiency of …
Calling for a redoubling of efforts to ramp up the domestic energy supplies, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, said that the country needs to rapidly increase energy consumption in order to achieve the 9 per cent growth target set for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012-17). “We have set for …
Taking forward the energy conservation measures, the divisional railway authorities have decided to install a 10 kilowatt solar power panel at the divisional railway office here and a solar water heater at the new running room in Villupuram Junction. Costing Rs.20 lakh, the solar panel will convert solar energy into …
The Union Government today awarded the first prize to the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) in appreciation of its achievements in energy conservation for the year 2011. Viswajeet Khanna, Principal Secretary, Science, Technology, Environment and NCES, today received this award from Union Minister of Power Sushil Kumar Shinde during the …
It will provide credit risk guarantee to banks on the loans Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday announced that the Centre was considering setting up a credit risk guarantee fund with a corpus of Rs. 1,000 crore, to start with, to encourage banks to lend to the poor for housing. …
An assessment of the Durban outcome should consider how to turn a setback into a strategic opportunity. We have agreed to a new and not well-defined process without the industrialised countries specifying their emissions reductions in the coming years, leaving the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol an empty …
India needs to rapidly increase energy consumption to achieve the ambitious target of 9 per cent economic growth in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17), Prime Minister Mr Manmohan Singh today said. “We have set for ourselves an ambitious target of 9 per cent annual growth in GDP in the 12th …
S. Ratnakumar, energy expert and research scholar attached to the Gandhigram Rural Institute, Dindigul, said that with the country preparing itself to observe yet another Energy Conservation Day on December 14, it is vital that comprehensive strategies to tap alternative energy sources to the maximum are evolved. Talking to The …
The eco-friendly Roshni project at the palatial Rashtrapati Bhavan has not only encouraged green measures for waste management and energy conservation but also led to power savings. The brainchild of President Pratibha Patil is also being adopted by Governors’ houses across the country. According to a Rashtrapati Bhavan official, the …
As the latest round of United Nations climate negotiations began in Durban, South Africa, expectations could scarcely have been lower. A globally binding deal is further away than ever. That makes considerable warming from climate change inevitable.
The United Nations has warned that the world is on the brink of another recession, projecting that global economic growth will slow down further in 2012 and even emerging powerhouses like India and China, which led the recovery last time, will get bogged down. The UN 'World Economic Situation and …
Rising global energy demand and the need to drastically cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions require a transformation in the way nations produce, deliver and consume energy, according to a new joint report from the OECD (Organization for Economic and Cooperation Development) and IEA (International Energy Agency). The Green Growth Studies: …
An initiative intended to create tens of thousands of jobs in projects to improve the energy efficiency of US commercial buildings is being launched by President Barack Obama, kick-starting an initiative first launched in the 1990s. The administration has secured commitments from companies including General Electric, Alcoa, 3M and Cummins, …
US sourcing oil only from the west in eight years will leave sufficient energy for the rest of the world There is growing euphoria over America’s energy future. Energy experts around the globe have been claiming that the US will gain energy independence in the next eight years. Optimists have …
