Mohali selected for Green India Mission project
Mohali district now has the distinction of being selected for implementing the Central Government’s Green India Mission project. Three other districts in Punjab - Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Hoshiarpur -
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Oilmin Asks RIL to Assess Cauvery Find
Block may contain over 100 million barrels of condensate or light oil and 3 trillion cubic feet of gas The government has given Reliance Industries the go-ahead to appraise its discovery in the Cauvery
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Raasi Green Energy to set up Rs 920 crore solar farm in Tamil Nadu
State to give total co-operation, the company is planning to expant to 1,000 MW Raasi Green Energy Private Ltd today signed a MoU with the Tamil Nadu Government to set up a solar farm in the state of Tamil Nadu with an investment of around Rs 920 crore. The new plant will come in the southern district of Ramanathapuram district. The company exchanged a MoU with Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) in front of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at Chennai today.
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Garbage on ‘heritage’ shrine periphery raises stink
Even as much is being said and done by the State Government to keep ancient shrines and heritage sites clean, these claims fall flat when it comes to Odisha’s most popular shrine - the Puri Jagannath Temple.
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Encroachment cloud on Alaka waters
Many rivers, considered the lifeline of Jagatsinghpur, have either dried up or are polluted with industrial waste and sewerage. One such river is Alaka that was flowing through Biridi, Jagatsinghpur,
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River pollution slur on TTPS
The Brahmani river here is facing pollution threat. Release of ash water and other wastes from the 460-mw Talcher Thermal Power Station (TTPS) here into the Brahmani has ended up severely polluting
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March fast for solid waste plant
The 75-crore solid waste management plant coming up at Jhiri, near Ratu, under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is expected to become operational by March-end. Officials of A2Z
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Pedder Road flyover gets green signal
The Pedder Road flyover has got environmental clearance from the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), thus crossing perhaps the final hurdle on its way. Keeping in view residents' opposition
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Cabinet okays linking Mohali with UT metro
The Punjab Cabinet today gave approval to link the Mohali railway station with the Chandigarh metro rail project at a cost of Rs 1,427 crore. The total 37.57 km length of the metro rail covering Chandigarh,
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Green tribunal raises stink over sea link
It sure cuts down your commute time and offers you a scenic drive, but the Bandra-Worli sea link is causing severe air and noise pollution. And public agencies are shrugging their responsibility to keep
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Flaws in MPT’s EIA report: CSE
CORTALIM: Contrary to claims by Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) of minimal environment impact on its expansion projects, the New Delhi-based Centre for Science & Environment has alleged several flaws in the MPT’s Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report. CSE has highlighted the shortcomings in the EIA for the controversial 7.2 MMTPA Iron Ore Export Terminal West of Breakwater, in its technical analysis at the request of local activist Savio Correia.
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NIB: Jayanthi, Jairam write to PM for stringent safeguards
Reiterating the concern that the proposed National Investment Board will have overreaching powers to the extent of even overruling the regulatory mechanism of green clearances, Environment Minister Jayanthi
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Centre for Science & Environment comments on the draft policy document of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), Phase II
Capital subsidies for renewable energy, both off-grid and on-grid, have been abandoned in favour of some kind of generation based incentives or other financial instruments like soft loans in the case of off-grid solar in almost all parts of the world. The draft of JNNSM, Phase II continues this conservative approach to funding renewable energy projects, says CSE.
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Treat obesity as physiology, not physics
The energy in–energy out hypothesis is not set in stone, argues Gary Taubes. It is time to test hormonal theories about why we get fat.
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Increased future ice discharge from Antarctica owing to higher snowfall
Climate models predict that precipitation will increase in Antarctica, leading to potential ice mass gain and an offset to sea level rise, but here it is shown that enhanced snowfall on Antarctica is likely
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IGCAR to hold public hearings in Kalpakkam to allay radiation fear
Keen on avoiding community opposition of the kind seen for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) will launch a sensitisation initiative ahead of starting work on two more 500 MW reactors in Kalpakkam, IGCAR Director S. C. Chetal said on Wednesday. Addressing the media on the sidelines of the three-day national symposium on radiation physics, hosted by the Indian Society for Radiation Physics (ISRP), Mr. Chetal said the series of public hearings would seek to address the often unfounded radiation-related fears in the minds of the local population before proceeding with the new fast-breeder reactors.
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Govt Says It’s Serious About Food Safety
Food and consumer affairs minister KV Thomas said that the government was serious about ensuring food safety and standards for street food vendors. “The government will focus on providing minimal check
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A study of the climate change impacts on fluvial flood propagation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
<p>The present paper investigated the extent of the flood propagation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta under different projected flood hydrographs, considering the 2000 flood event as the basis for computation.
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Jal Board escalated project cost to benefit private company, alleges NGO
The Delhi Jal Board escalated the cost of the public private partnership project being carried out in Nangloi to extend benefit to the private company that has been awarded the work, a non-government organisation opposing the PPP model has claimed. The NGO, Citizen Front for Water Democracy, has alleged that the cost estimated for the work is higher than the prevailing market price and that the DJB has fabricated the data and actual figures of treatment of water at the Nangloi Water Treatment Plant.
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ADB loan in the offing for Jaipur Metro
The Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation will shortly obtain loan worth Rs.969 crore from the Asian Development Bank for completion of work on a portion of its corridor in the Walled City here. The first phase connecting the Mansarovar residential colony with Chandpole is likely to start by July next year. JMRC Chairman & Managing Director Nihal Chand Goyal said during an interaction with an ADB team, currently on a visit to Jaipur, that the loan would be utilised for completion of Phase 1-B between Chandpole and Badi Chaupad. Land needed for laying of rail tracks has been acquired and the displaced people have been rehabilitated, he said.