NEW DELHI: There can be poverty of projects but there is no shortage of funds in the world, said India’s G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant, as he pitched for the need to reach 750GW of clean (non-fossil fuel) energy in India by 2030, much beyond the country’s current target of 500GW.He said $300 trillion is available…
LONDON: Britain was the birthplace of coal power, the first country to build a coal-fired power station. It is now the first major economy to give it up.The last coal plant standing in the UK at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire finished operations at midnight on Monday after powering the UK since 1967.The UK will now no…
WASHINGTON: Rare Indian antiques Washington is returning to New Delhi formed the backdrop of a “Fab” future in US-India ties as the two sides announced an unprecedented collaboration to establish a futuristic semiconductor plant in India aimed at advancing national security for both countries. The agreement, hailed as a “watershed arrangement” between the two sides,…
MUMBAI: In much of rural India, families continue to light their kitchen fires with wood, dung and coal – a practice that exposes them to harmful smoke.Switching these families to exclusive use of LPG, a relatively clean energy, would save more than 1,50,000 lives a year due to reductions in both indoor and outdoor pollution,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bilateral meeting with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni saw the two sides discussing defence and security cooperation, including enhancing defence industrial collaboration.They welcomed the forthcoming visit of the Italian aircraft carrier ITS Cavour and training ship ITS Vespucci to India later this year. Modi thanked the Italian govt for recognising the…
