Adani-Hindenburg row: Congress launches nationwide protests, Parliament adjourned

The Congress on Monday launched a nationwide protest over the Hindenburg report against the Adani Group. While Congress workers staged a protest outside the State Bank of India office in Hyderabad, hundreds of Congress workers, led by senior party leaders Vikar Rasool and working president Raman Bhalla, took out a rally in Jammu. Protesters in […]

Saving 50 lakh with solar power, PAU wins State Energy Conservation Award, V-C back Green Engineering

The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, bagged the first position under the category of ‘Commercial Buildings’ in State Energy Conservation Awards held recently by Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA), a state designated agency of Punjab government. The commercial buildings in the sector of educational institutions included government as well as private buildings. The award was […]

India Energy Week: PM Modi pitches for global investments in energy sector

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited investors to participate in the rapid growth being charted out by India’s energy sector, saying that major investment opportunities are being developed in the space. In his address at the inauguration of India Energy Week in Bengaluru, Modi said that numerous areas of India’s energy landscape—from conventional hydrocarbons to […]

PM Modi launches 3 green initiatives at India Energy Week

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched three initiatives in the green energy sector during the inaugural India Energy Week in Bengaluru Monday. The first was the ‘Unbottled’ project of the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, under which Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles are recycled to produce yarn to knit fabric. The other two were a solar cooking system […]

CEA’s advise against retiring thermal power plants will hit renewable energy projects: Experts

Despite India’s push for renewable energies, a recent notice issued by the Central Electricity Authority of India (CEA) to power utilities to not retire any thermal units until 2030 has alarmed experts who say the move will have a retrograde effect on the country’s energy transition endeavours. In its notice on January 20, the CEA […]

Kerala woman creates ‘bomb scare’ at Bengaluru airport after she ‘misses flight’; arrested

A Kerala native woman was arrested in Bengaluru after she allegedly created a false bomb scare inside Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport Friday, police said. Probe revealed that the woman allegedly did so as she missed her flight to Kolkata. The accused has been identified as Manasi Satheebainu, 31, who hails from Kozhikode in Kerala, officers […]

Nepal aircraft that crashed had no thrust motion in engines before landing, says panel

An aircraft that crashed in Nepal last month, killing 71 people on board, had no thrust motion in its engines in the final leg of its descent, a government-appointed panel investigating the accident said on Monday. The plane crashed just before landing in the tourist city of Pokhra on Jan. 15, in one of Nepal’s […]

‘HAL growth exposes those who used it to instigate people’: PM Modi after opening Karnataka chopper factory

While inaugurating a Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) helicopter factory in Tumakuru on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at the Opposition, which had questioned his government’s decision to prefer Reliance Defence to the HAL as the offset partner in the controversial Rafale deal. “The Opposition targeted my party over the HAL and wasted precious […]

PM unveils country’s largest chopper-making plant, attacks Congress for HAL comment

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday attacked the Congress for “using” the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) as a pretext to level allegations against his government and instigate people. He was addressing a gathering in Tumakuru where he inaugurated the HAL helicopter factory, country’s biggest, nearly seven years after he had laid its foundation stone. Modi […]

Chennai: Traffic diversions on Ayanavaram Anderson Road for six months

On account of Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) work, there will be traffic diversions on Ayanavaram Anderson Road from Regional Transport Office (RTO) Junction to Anderson Street Junction in the city. These restrictions came into force on February 4 and will remain in place for the next six months. The movement of vehicular traffic will […]