All solid waste to be used for road construction before 2027: Nitin GadkariUnion Minister Nitin Gadkari announced that all solid waste will be utilized for road construction by the end of 2027, with 80 lakh tons al...
09 Oct, 2025, 02.07 PM IST
Rich in cash, Japan automaker Toyota builds city to test futuristic mobilityJapanese automaker Toyota has completed the first phase of its USD 10 billion Woven City near Mount Fuji, aimed at testing robotics, artifi...
22 Feb, 2025, 08.08 PM IST
Waves of Change: One of the world’s oldest industries is getting a tech makeoverMajority of the global trade- about 80% is done via shipping and that comes at an enormous environmental cost. Some of the world's largest ...
29 Sep, 2023, 10.23 AM IST
Policy soon to push green infra gear: Nitin GadkariThe Centre is considering a policy to support transition away from fossil fuel-powered construction equipment by offering soft loans for pu...
02 Jun, 2023, 12.19 AM IST
Is it mist? Is it fog? No its poisonous smoke: Kochi residents on waking up to smog in the cityThe fire broke out at the Kochi city corporation-run waste treatment plant on March 2 and by March 5 the district administration of Ernakul...
10 Mar, 2023, 12.38 PM IST
View: India’s startup ecosystem should seek green unicornsA herd of Indian green unicorns could drive decades of economic growth. They will create lakhs of green jobs, save millions of tonnes of ca...
27 Jan, 2023, 11.08 PM IST
TheGreenBillions in pact with Pune Municipal Corp for Green Hydrogen plantThe project aims to extract clean hydrogen from municipal solid waste. The company is also in discussions with other state municipalities a...
09 Jan, 2023, 07.11 PM IST
How vanaspati is retracing its route to the great Indian kitchenDalda is the best-known vanaspati, the desi term for the manufactured solid fats broadly called margarine in the West.
11 Sep, 2022, 09.35 AM IST
Sarbananda Sonowal reviews progress of green initiatives undertaken for the development of Green Ports & Green Shipping in IndiaSonowal chaired a meeting with all major ports, CSL and IWAI to review the progress on various green initiatives being implemented, as per ...
29 Jan, 2022, 07.48 PM IST
View: Bio data of a wonder bio fuelCBG is derived from agri-waste and other forms of organic waste — a hi-tech version of gobar gas. Unlike the latter, though, a CBG plant pr...
24 Jan, 2021, 11.34 PM IST
Hyundai Motor Group to build first overseas fuel cell system plant in ChinaHyundai Motor Group has signed an investment pact with the government of China's southern province of Guangdong to build its first overseas...
15 Jan, 2021, 10.35 AM IST
Toyota unveils new fuel cell car in fresh push on hydrogen technologyToyota has failed until now to win drivers over to fuel cell vehicles (FCV), which remain a niche technology despite Japanese government ba...
09 Dec, 2020, 01.56 PM IST
Robots help combat COVID-19 in world, and maybe soon in India tooThe World Health Organisation has advised physical distancing for people around the world to prevent community level transmission of COVID-...
30 Mar, 2020, 05.20 PM IST
How Royal Dutch Shell and other companies are trying to make petroleum products from municipal wasteRoyal Dutch Shell has proven the technology in its laboratory, using a waste mixture that can even contain some amount of plastics.
28 Dec, 2015, 12.55 PM IST
- Colour code to treat trash at IIT-BHU
Soon, the green committee of Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU) will place separate dustbins to segregate b...
08 Oct, 2015, 04.05 PM IST
Soon, garbage to power British Airways planesWhile the world's first factory to turn garbage into jet fuel will come up in about three years, waste-fuelled transatlantic flights could ...
30 Apr, 2014, 04.18 PM IST
- Clean up the Ganga; Remember the Thames
The World Bank has sanctioned a loan, worth $1 billion, to the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA), to clean up the Ganga.
03 Jun, 2011, 08.18 AM IST