No rivers, no wells, no rain needed: How a Nobel Prize-winning scientist's invention produces up to 1,000 litres of drinking water daily from thin airOmar Yaghi Water-From-Air Innovation: Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has helped develop a groundbreaking machine that can produce c...
04 Jun, 2026, 11.36 PM IST
Post Naxalism: Amit Shah launches first public service centre inside Chhattisgarh security camp18 May, 2026, 03.44 PM IST
Chhattisgarh proposes to use security camps as 'Seva Kendras'Chhattisgarh's Chief Minister, Vishnu Deo Sai, has launched an innovative program aimed at revitalizing inactive police and paramilitary ca...
16 May, 2026, 12.28 AM IST
Energy shock ripples from kitchens to forests as Africa and South Asia grapple with rising fuel costsGlobal fuel price hikes are pushing families in Kenya and India back to burning charcoal and wood. This reversal threatens years of progres...
27 Apr, 2026, 04.29 PM IST
Chhattisgarh: For the first time, 17 remote Naxal-hit villages get electricitySeventeen villages in Chhattisgarh's Naxal-affected Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki district have been electrified for the first time, benefit...
16 May, 2025, 12.05 PM IST
From darkness to light: Naxal-hit village in Chhattisgarh gets electricity for first timeTimenar, a remote village in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-affected Bijapur district, has received electricity for the first time in over seven dec...
23 Mar, 2025, 01.42 PM IST
Solar power illuminates remote Tripura village after 80 years, brightens life2 KW microgrid power plant each was installed at Sarkhipara and 11 other remote hamlets of Tripura for supplying electricity to villages in...
10 Aug, 2022, 12.17 PM IST
PM should have acknowledged achievements till 2014: Chidambaram on Modi's remarks in GermanyPrime Minister Modi, who is visiting Germany to attend the G7 Summit, addressed thousands of members of the Indian community at a grand eve...
27 Jun, 2022, 03.04 PM IST
'Astro-stays' bring tourists and solar power to Himalayan villagesGlobal Himalayan Expedition (GHE) has brought solar electricity to more than 130 Indian villages, benefiting about 60,000 people, while set...
30 Oct, 2020, 04.47 PM IST
Government has doubled spend on rural electrification in 4 years: RK SinghIn the last fiscal year, 50.41 lakh such households had been given free electricity connections, five times more than 9.62 lakh connections...
01 May, 2018, 11.54 PM IST
Maharashtra village gets power, bus after 70 years of IndependenceAmdeli, surrounded by forest and having a population of around 200 people, all of whom are Telugu speaking, is a remote village in Gadchiro...
29 Sep, 2017, 02.26 PM IST
Tata Power DDL to set up two pilot solar microgrids in BiharThe proposal envisages setting up of two 15 KWp solar projects in Tayabpur and Behlolpur village in the first phase, followed by capacity a...
07 Jul, 2017, 11.52 PM IST
Solar power to illuminate 140 Naxal-hit villages in ChhattisgarhAs many as 140 remote villages and hamlets in Naxal-affected areas of Chhattisgarh which have no electricity supply even 68 years after the...
27 Nov, 2015, 04.44 PM IST
- Electric grid will accelerate climate change in Sundarbans: Experts
The ongoing extension of the electric grid to the remote islands of Sundarbans will not only adversely affect the viability of existing ren...
16 Dec, 2012, 11.02 AM IST
- Solar power lights up villages in Tripura
Perched on Killa hill, the remote tribal hamlet of Tobakla in Tripura's south district now shines in the dark with a non-conventional solar...
04 May, 2008, 11.24 AM IST
- Green power has a 7% share in grid capacity
The contribution of green fuel in the country’s power sector has crossed 7% of the grid power capacity in 2006.
02 Jan, 2007, 01.21 AM IST
- Govt plans Rs 40,000-cr energy push for villages
The government may embark on an ambitious scheme to provide energy security to villages. This project will entail an initial investment of ...
17 Jun, 2004, 02.01 AM IST