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A first-ever rally of eco-friendly vehicles with the theme ‘Save the Earth’ was hosted in the national capital on Sunday. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit flagged off the rally, held on the eve of the fourth EFV (Environment Friendly Vehicle) Conference, a biannual international conference, under the World Forum for...

Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) said it has stumbled upon a reserve of uranium while carrying out exploration work in an oilfield in Assam. According to a senior ONGC official, traces of uranium were detected during exploration work at the Borholla oilfield in Jorhat district, about 360 km east...

The Indian petroleum minister Murli Deora recently convened a meeting with fuel retailers and sugar millers for seeking their support in its ethanol-blending policy. The move comes in the wake of government asked the petroleum ministry to ensure that oil companies compulsorily sold petrol mixed with 5 per cent ethanol...

In order to avail the benefits of generating power through renewable sources, many corporates have come forward to install rooftop solar photovoltaic (SPV) systems in Haryana. Rooftop SPV systems are covered under the central financial assistance scheme. Haryana has so far sent four proposals to the Centre for approval under...

Indowind Energy announced it has obtained a term loan sanction of Rs 760 million from IREDA, New Delhi, (Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency) out of which it has now availed Rs 360 million for completing the existing 18 MW operational projects. The balance term loan amount of Rs 400 million...

5400 MW from wind energy, 63 MW from small hydro, 10 MW from biomass power and 62 MW from waste to energy have been estimated for grid-interactive renewable power generation capacity in Rajasthan. Out of the installed capacity of around 15,538 MW from various renewable energy sources in the country...

In a bid to bring environmental concerns into mainstream growth accounting, the government plans to release green GDP data from 2015, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on Friday. Green GDP is conventional gross domestic product figures adjusted for the environmental costs of economic activities. It’s a measure of how a...

Business experts from across the country will meet in the national capital to discuss green job opportunities available in India. The initiative ‘Rework India’ by NGO Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (YES) and Drishtee is an effort to discuss how investors and the government can support green jobs for youth in...

About three or four times a week, Yogesh Verma takes government officials and farmers from various parts of India on a tour of the olive plantation he manages. The visitors travel to the plantation near Jaipur in the desert state of Rajasthan to see the 100,000 trees covering 520 acres...

Representatives of a South Korean firm that has developed high-performance coating for solar cells, will demonstrate the technology to Indian photovoltaic module manufacturers. The coating will enhance a solar panel’s power generation capacity by 5%. West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation (WBGEDC) managing director SP Gon Chaudhuri said representatives of...