Verushka Singh, the first Indian-origin Mrs South Africa, has resigned from her position after four months, citing personal and family reasons. Her reign was marked by advocacy for environmental sustainability and women's empowerment.
The Karnataka government is reviewing its data centre policy to prioritise sustainability due to concerns about the significant water and energy consumption of data centres. The government is exploring coastal locations like Mangaluru for future data centre development and focusing on smaller-scale data centres.
The move offers flexibility in compliance but also places penalties squarely on the designated manager of such a pool.
The move is aimed at improving cooling efficiency, potentially reducing sudden power demand spikes, and cutting electricity bills.
Home-grown FMCG major Dabur India on Thursday said it will set up a Rs 400-crore manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district, marking the company's maiden foray into the South. State Industries Minister TRB Rajaa said, Dabur has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the state government to this effect on Thursday. The MoU outlines an approved Phase 1 investment of Rs 135 crore, scaling up to Rs 400 crore over five years, Dabur India said in a statement.
Carter was in politics, but not a politician, certainly not a transactional politician, points out Shreekant Sambrani.
Jehan Daruvala's racing career may not have taken the path he envisioned, but the Indian driver isn't dwelling on missed opportunities.
The rich world continues to give lectures on energy conservation. But what is it doing itself?
The unrelenting heatwave sweeping large parts of the country has claimed at least 110 lives and left over 40,000 people grappling with suspected heatstroke between March 1 and June 18 this year, health ministry sources said on Thursday.
The The Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022 will be introduced in the Lok Sabha today. Rajya Sabha will look to pass the Family Courts (Amendment) Bill, 2022.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday received Bhutan's highest civilian award, the 'Order of the Druk Gyalpo', making him the first foreign Head of the Government to receive the honour.
According to the Ministry of Energy, the system of frequency of the national grid went down at 7:34 am local time, resulting in the breakdown.
However, members requested the government and the presiding officers of both the House to end the proceedings early citing the festive season and New Year celebrations ahead.
The museum is aimed at sensitising and inspiring the younger generation about the leadership, vision and achievements of all our prime ministers
7 key areas that the Budget must address to re-energise the infrastructure sector, suggests Vinayak Chatterjee.
The Centre has also listed 24 bills, including the Cantonment Bill, the Multi-State Cooperative Societies (Amendment) Bill and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill.
The government's agenda also includes the Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021.
Generally, before adjourning the house sine die the chair reads out the statistics about the business transacted in the house in detail.
The Union Power Ministry has selected Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (Visakhapatnam Steel Plant) for the National Energy Conservation Award 2002, first prize in the integrated steel plants sector.\n\n\n\n
Encouraging domestic financial savings through focused measures would help mobilise long term resources for funding infrastructure and economic development.
From a 29-year-old Goldman Sachs director to a graduate student developing energy conserving sensors, about 10 Indian-origin young turks have been named in a Forbes list of "tomorrow's brightest stars" who are "reinventing the world".
India needs to rapidly increase energy consumption to achieve the ambitious target of 9 per cent economic growth in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday.
Japan, the world's third largest economy, will introduce an environmental tax from next year to boost revenue and promote energy conservation steps to counter global warming. The Government Tax Commission has decided to introduce an environmental tax to counter global warming in fiscal 2011, Kyodo news agency reported, quoting informed sources as saying.
Twenty-five buildings in Andhra Pradesh to be upgraded this calendar year.
Well-known companies like Wipro, ITC, Patni Computers, Spectral Services and many others have received permission to work on 'green buildings' in industrial zones of the National Capital Region like Noida and Gurgaon. Green buildings consultancy company SGS Pvt India Ltd Head Avinash Kumar said there are about 40 buildings in the country that fall under the green category and atleast 10-12 companies are in place that cater for such requirements currently.
The green building code, termed energy conservation building code, is likely to be mandatory for commercial buildings coming up in eight fast growing states in the next two years.
China's ruling Communist Party on Friday endorsed the government's decision to cut carbon emissions by up to 45 per cent and improve energy efficiency.
The nodal agency for implementing energy conservation programme, the Bureau of Energy Efficiency is expected to implement rating of cars on the basis of fuel efficiency charging about Rs 200 per unit from manufacturers.
The government will soon have "star" ratings for its commercial buildings to keep a tab on their power use and to ascertain consumption by various appliances.
A Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) official said the government would soon make the punitive provisions of the Energy Conservation Act 2001 compulsory.
The government is in the final stage of notifying the fuel efficiency standards for automobile sector in the country which will be enforced from 2011, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Monday.
The Government of India Society announces admissions to the 10-weeks full time course.
India should focus on producing cheap, efficient and small electric cars over the next five years. "This will boost energy conservation and help cut down carbon emissions," said Ravi Kant, chief executive officer, Tata Motors.
Dr Singh also wanted the management of water resources to be addressed, saying it was the "most important challenge facing mankind."
Bicycles, car pools and fans are making a comeback into the lives of Japanese people battling soaring oil prices and global warming.
The design, material and technology used in a green building is such that not only does it conserve energy, it recycles the used energy wherever possible and also creates energy out of the waste. Be it a water treatment plant, a sewage plant, green lighting or using FSC certified wood that comes from sustainable forests, a green building is constantly in search of new methods of environmental conservation.
On the lines of entertainment provided by airlines, Prasad may announce launching of this scheme beginning with Shatabdi trains, Rail Bhawan sources said.
Sustainable homes, writes Radhieka Pandeya, should be built in a manner to create energy within, so they do not need to borrow any from outside.
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