Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
New Delhi: Delhi Technological University (DTU) will don a fresh green look soon. After being upragded to a university in the middle of last year, DTU revisited its master plan and came up with innovative ways to improve the institute. According to the plan, the 164-acre campus of DTU, formerly …
National and international experts have urged SAIL to explore the twin possibilities of adopting new energy efficient processes and non-conventional sources like wind and solar energy in steel plants.
NARAYAN BARETH Lighting at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti will soon be run on solar energy. The Union minister for renewable energy, Mr Farooq Abdullah, has sanctioned a project in this regard. It will not only save energy but also help to cut down the costs. `'The government has …
K Subramanya F -- s or someone who has spent a lifetime in the Indian solar industry -- since the 1980s -- it was a dream come true for your columnist to witness the launch of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission by the Prime Minister at the Solar Energy …
Discom BSES has tied up with a Gurgaon-based firm for 50MW of solar power that will be available for the capital by March 2013. The MoU for 25 years between BSES and ACME Tele Power Ltd was signed on Tuesday. The agency is establishing solar power plants at various locations …
While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday announced the National Solar Mission, the Delhi government is eyeing World Bank help to produce solar energy. To produce grid-based solar energy, the Delhi government is at present working on a proposal for the Climate Investment Fund (CIF)
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Lauding the major renewable energy initiative of Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission, Russia on Tuesday expressed strong confidence that both New Delhi and Moscow had great potential for forging joint ventures and setting up manufacturing facilities for application of solar energy in the fields of industrial, military, …
The BSES on Tuesday became the first utility to sign an agreement to source 50 MW of solar power, a day after the Prime Minister unveiled the solar mission. As per the deal, the BSES-Rajdhani and BSESYamuna each will procure 25 MW of solar power. The discom on Tuesday signed …
New Delhi: As part of efforts to combat climate change, PM Manmohan Singh advocated creation of Solar Valleys in India on the lines of Silicon Valleys and asked industrial houses to view the Solar Mission as a huge business opportunity. Launching the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: India plans to install 20 million solar lights and 20 million square metres of solar panel to generate 20,000 MW by 2022 as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah said on Monday.
As many as 4,000 houses spread across 26 remote villages in six districts will emerge from darkness this February-end. The Jharkhand Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd (JREDA), a state agency for promoting use of renewable energy sources, has decided to cover these remote villages under its solar home and street …
Low carbon growth may have become the new mantra for development in the country, but the government is finding it difficult to push through a shift to environment-friendly technologies and use of alternative sources of energy in its own ministries and departments. In the past few weeks, Ministry of New …
Energy-starved India could soon use its abundance of sunlight to power one megawatt (1 MW)-capacity rooftop storage batteries to electrify homes and offices.The government is in talks with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US to use its prototype of 1 MW-capacity rooftop storage battery, Power Secretary H.S. …
NEW DELHI: With the Finance Ministry throwing up its hands for supporting such a big programme in the renewable energy sector, the Union Government is contemplating reducing the target of the recently launched Jawaharlal Solar Mission from the original 20,000 MW to a more reasonable limit when the Prime Minister, …
Once you finish feasting your eyes on the line of technologically -advanced luxury cars by major car manufacturers on display at the 10th Auto Expo, you might want to turn your attention to a non-polluting version, offered by a resourceful group of students. Tucked between a row of stalls is …
