The initiative, which was launched by the United Nations Environment Programme in 2003 in collaboration with Indian banks, was aimed at providing loans to rural households for setting up solar energy systems. Besides, the 'Billion Tree Campaign' launched in 2006 and the 'Environmental Management of Iraqi Marshlands' leading to partial restoration of the largest wetland ecosystem in West Asia were among other UNEP projects which won the awards.
Researchers found that fuel-based lighting today provides 150,000 jobs worldwide.
The Chandrayaan-3 mission that aims for a soft landing on the moon's surface, paving the way for future interplanetary missions, carries six payloads that would help ISRO understand the lunar soil and also get the blue planet's photographs from the lunar orbit.
Young IIT engineers have come up with an affordable solution to the wastage of agricultural produce by developing a unique solar-powered cold storage system which works at almost zero running cost.
A satellite placed in the halo orbit around the first Lagrangian point (L1) of the Sun-Earth system has the major advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any occultation/eclipses, the IIA said.
Kerala chief minister will inaugurate CIAL's green initiative.
The new guidelines, effective from August 1, aim to expedite visa approvals for nationals from China and other countries sharing land borders with India.
Gujarat has earlier made a strong pitch in the area of solar energy.
The rover, Zhurong, named after a god of fire and war in Chinese mythology, landed at the pre-selected area in Utopia Planitia on Mars, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
After sending missions to the Moon and Mars, ISRO is now readying a spacecraft to orbit Venus to study what lies below the surface of the hottest planet in the solar system and also unravel the mysteries under the sulfuric acid clouds enveloping it.
Showcasing what the future holds in the computing arena, chip-maker Intel on Wednesday unveiled a computer with a processor running on a postage stamp-size cell powered by solar energy.
Aditya-L1 spacecraft is designed for providing remote observations of the solar corona and in situ observations of the solar wind at L1 (Sun-Earth Lagrangian point), which is about 1.5 million kilometres from the earth.
The Lagrange point 1 (L1) of the Sun-Earth system is about 1.5 million km from the Earth. It is about one per cent of the total distance between the Earth and the Sun.
Adani, Rajasthan govt will set up solar power project of 5000 MW on its own in the next five years.
Indian Institute of Astrophysics' (IIA) Integrated M.Tech, PhD in Astronomical instrumentation.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its third and final developmental flight of Small Satellite Launch Vehicle here on Friday whose payloads can be used in applications like satellite-based surveillance, disaster and environmental monitoring, fire detection, volcanic activity among others.
Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun, is getting ready for its launch soon, ISRO said on Monday.
The threshold for a heat wave is met when the maximum temperature of a weather station reaches at least 40 degrees Celsius in the plains, 37 degrees in coastal areas, and 30 degrees in hilly regions, and the departure from normal is at least 4.5 notches.
The new photo was taken on April 9 from a distance of about 115 million kilometres.
As the political uncertainty settles down, investors are reviewing their assumptions about the power sector. Demand here is likely to continue to grow strongly in the long-term at around 5-6 per cent CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) during the next 6-7 years. Given policy continuity, several trends will persist.
India's Mars orbiter craft has completed eight years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months. Plans on a follow-on 'Mangalyaan' mission to the Red Planet, however, are yet to be firmed up.
Foxconn's business in India has grown to over $10 billion till 2024.
Aiming at reduction of carbon emission by using clean energy, Indian Railways has embarked upon a renewable energy action plan as part of the national policy to address the impact of climate change.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has discovered the smallest known planet outside our solar system which is slightly larger than the moon and orbits its sun like host star every 13 days.
According to a report in Discovery News, though scientists have studied the sun by sending probes to unravel its 11-year cycles, watching its outbursts and measuring how its winds shape the outer edges of the solar system, no spacecraft has been able to enter the its atmosphere as yet.
The solar-powered spacecraft which left Earth five years ago finally reached its destination and entered into Jupiter's orbit.
Average monthly GST collection rose from Rs 90,000 crore during the first year of its implementation -- 2017-2018 -- to Rs 1.68 trillion during 2023-2024, representing an 87 per cent rise.
So, if ISRO is able to revive them as the Sun rises on the Moon again, information that is derived from experiments that could once again be conducted by the Chandrayaan-3 payloads would be a "bonus".
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj hospital at Kalwa in Thane will be one of the first buildings in India to have a 160 tonne solar air conditioning system.
Kolkata-based Kirti solar Ltd has decided to be a cog in the wheel of solar power generation in our country. In a conversation with rediff.com, Dhiraj Bhagchandka, managing director of the company, speaks about his company and how it plans to bring light to Indian villages.
ISRO will now conduct further testing of VELC and its eventual integration with the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, it said in a release.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that her state would sever all ties with the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for 'unilaterally releasing water', which led to floods in south Bengal districts.
Power Grid Corporation (PGCIL) intends to ramp up its capex substantially through the next two financial years. The Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) utility posted flat consolidated revenues of Rs 10,700 crore in the third quarter of the current financial year (Q3FY24) and reported 7 per cent year on year (Y-o-Y) growth in net profit to Rs 4,000 crore. The Q3FY24 capex stood at Rs 3,440 crore and capitalisation at Rs 1,780 crore, taking the 9MFY24 total to Rs 8,700 crore capex and Rs 5,800 crore capitalisation, respectively.
Around 80 mn rural households are estimated to have no access to grid power.
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.
A Bangalore-based firm devises a finance system to help rural households access solar energy.
Scientists have recorded haunting sounds cast by Jupiter's auroras, captured by NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft during its first full orbit around the king of planets.
The rover will carry out in-situ chemical analysis of the lunar surface during the course of its mobility.
Astronomers have discovered a new planet circling a dim red star around 20 light years away from our solar system, which could be a "super earth" supporting life.
An international team of scientists has discovered a 18kg meteorite in Antarctica -- the largest in nearly 25 years, which may help unlock the secrets of our solar system.
