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 …
With the growing concern for climate change and the need for conservation, the perils of wastage are like the writing on the wall. Many people in the city have started making efforts to reduce wastage, either by conserving energy or using efficient alternatives. Though frequent carpools to work, reuse of …
Atiq Khan Mayawati government's drive towards energy conservation To bring down power consumption by 10 p.c. State is deficient in power generation LUCKNOW: In a massive energy conservation drive, use of compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) has been made compulsory in government buildings, aided institutions, corporations and autonomous bodies in Uttar …
Supply to be disrupted in Chennai for one hour a day Zonal system for industrial units to be revived CHENNAI: Acknowledging that the State is suffering from power shortage of 1,000 megawatt (MW), Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veeraswami on Friday announced that the scheme of "power holiday' will come into …
IBM on Friday announced the launch of the second phase of Project Big Green (PBG 2.0) in India, and also introduced new modular data centres it said can reduce energy consumption by as much as 50%. As part of PBG 2.0, senior company officials told a news conference here, IBM …
Raktima Bose 3 more solar power plants for West Bengal Solar energy-run housing complex set up at New Town in Kolkata Aim is to achieve zero-carbon emission KOLKATA: West Bengal is pitching in in a big way to find alternative sources of power in the face of rising fuel cost …
Companies should come forward and reduce their costs by setting up state-ofthe-art data centers. Kiran Karnik Ex-President, NASSCOM and Conference Chairman CIOs must not merely be IT leaders, but must also be responsible for key business functions Partha Iyengar Regional Research Director Gartner India Companies need to invest in business …
Papia Lahiri, Ishta Vohra, Durba Ghosh New Delhi IN the wake of global warming and concerns over environmental degradation, companies are integrating green agenda into their business models. The concept of Green-IT is awakening India Inc to IT's responsibilities IT towards environment conservation. More than 500 million computers became obsolete …
AUSTRALIA lags behind most rich nations in taking the easiest steps to make an emissions trading scheme as cheap as possible: becoming more energy efficient at home, work and on the road. Due largely to a love of petrol-guzzling cars and an energy-intensive manufacturing sector, Australia's energy efficiency improved at …
A national-level workshop on promoting Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) is being organised by the Haryana Renewable Energy Department in collaboration with Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) of the Union Power Ministry on July 11 at Gurgaon. Haryana Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary, Renewable Energy and Power, Ashok Lavasa said …
Three months after Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal mooted the Rs 80-crore energy saving Atal Bijli Bachat Yojana, envisaging free distribution of CFLs, Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board is finally ready to introduce the scheme. Yesterday, HPSEB top officials finalised the tender documents to start bulk purchase of compact fluorescent …
In a first of its kind initiative for energy conservation undertaken by the city, the Jan Marg will be lit up by Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). An order of around 218 LEDs has been placed with a Pune based firm. A grant of nearly Rs 65 lakh has been given …
A deep rumble, like the steady snores of a sleeping giant, envelops the factory. The temperature is nearly 75 degree celsius near the furnace, the surface temperature being around 300 degree celsius. Heedless of the heat, men armed with steel rods, the tips glowing, walk to and fro thrusting the …
THE eight missions through which the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC) is to be implemented are a bit like the Buddha's Eight-fold Path for salvation: seemingly simple but easier said than done. This is not to deny the need for a plan or for setting up institutional mechanisms …
Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI CHARITY begins at home for the bureau of energy efficiency (BEE), as demonstrated by its plans to make government institutions and buildings completely energy efficient. The bureau is working to integrate energy efficiency with the government procurement programme and also convert government buildings to energy efficient …
Pune July 01 The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has urged citizens to make a solemn promise to conserve energy. Pradeep Bhargava, Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industries, Maharashtra said that Pune has zero loadshedding and has proposed that consumers should endeavour to keep the energy bill the same in rupees …
