Category: Business Standard

Electric tourist bus service NueGo promoted by GreenCell Mobility would soon ply on the local routes in Tamil Nadu, the state government said on Sunday. Recently, NueGo became the first battery-operated transport vehicle to be registered in the state following the government order stating all such passenger vehicles shall be issued permits by the transport […]

The finance ministry is considering the proposal for including the electric vehicles infrastructure under the priority sector lending category, a senior government official said on Saturday. The move will promote and accelerate the penetration of EVs in the country and attract investments in the sector. “We have received a representation from power ministry to include […]

Indian IT company CSM Tech, with an active business footprint in Africa, Dubai, the US, and Canada, has teamed up with IIT Madras to help build the world’s fastest, autonomously driven electric race car by 2025. CSM Tech is backing Raftar, a motorsports team run by the students of IIT Madras. Raftar is a team […]

Rising trade barriers. Aging populations. A broad transition from carbon-spewing fossil fuels to renewable energy. The prevalence of such trends across the world could intensify global inflation pressures in the coming years and make it harder for the Federal Reserve and other central banks to meet their inflation targets. That concern was a theme sounded […]

Electricity was being restored in most parts of Kenya on Saturday, 14 hours after the longest outage in recent memory, the majority government-owned power distributor said. There was still no clear explanation for the outage that hit on Friday night, shutting down the country’s main international airport, affecting major hospitals and even the president’s office […]

Every day in Pakistan, more people are joining the nationwide protest against excessive electricity prices. As a form of protest, people are taking to the streets and burning their banknotes, ARY News reported. Protests against the exorbitant electricity prices have spread across the entire nation, from Karachi to Khyber, and some protests are now turning […]

Amid country-wide protests over inflated power bills, Pakistan Interim Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar held an emergency meeting on Sunday over the rising issue of electricity rates and inflated consumer bills, reported Dawn. Caretaker Information Minister Murtaza Solangi said that the meeting was held at the PM’s office in Islamabad and it went for over […]

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) blamed the Pakistan Muslim League-N party for the rising cost of electricity, warning that power tariffs might jump to around Pakistani Rupee (PKR) 85 per unit in the next few months, Dawn reported. With protests erupting over inflated power bills, PTI secretary general Omar Ayub Khan said the PML-N government was […]

To ensure uninterrupted power supply for the G20 Summit, authorities are leveraging latest technology and have installed multiple backups at the venue, Pragati Maidan, officials said on Saturday. Power discom BSES has enhanced the supply to Pragati Maidan by establishing three separate power sources to ensure reliability. Cables measuring three km have been laid to […]

At a small section of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s central control room in northeastern Japan, the treated water transfer switch is on. A graph on a computer monitor nearby shows a steady decrease of water levels as treated radioactive wastewater is diluted and released into the Pacific Ocean. In the coastal area of the […]