View: India's urban hymns for the planetCities are right at the heart of India's low-carbon future. They contribute about 70% of the country's GDP. It's a figure that's set to inc...
25 Mar, 2023, 12.22 AM IST
$4 billion savings in oil import bill: How Regreen Excel is playing a part with its innovationIndia’s dependence on imported oil burns a substantial hole in its foreign exchange. Alternate fuels like ethanol and second-generation eth...
23 Dec, 2022, 09.55 AM IST
India one of few countries to have achieved most nationally determined contributions: Bhupender Yadav"India has, under the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, taken decisive actions in all areas of climate change. It is one of the few c...
08 Jun, 2022, 08.18 PM IST
Sri Lankan PM urges citizens not to stock fuel; calls for restructuring entire economyThe Lankan Prime Minister said, the next three weeks will be a tough time for the country with regard to fuel and it is time to use fuel an...
07 Jun, 2022, 09.21 PM IST
Lanka lifts curfew in Rambukkana; probe begins on police firing at unarmed protestersAt least three of the 14 hospitalised protesters at Rambukkana, some 90 kilometers northeast of Colombo, were critical at the Kegalle hospi...
21 Apr, 2022, 10.40 AM IST
There cannot be 'one-size-fits-all solution': India at UN high-level dialogue on energyMinister for Power and New and Renewable Energy R K Singh said India has set an ambitious target of 450 gigawatt (GW) of renewable energy c...
25 Sep, 2021, 10.55 AM IST
Leaded petrol is gone, but lead pollution may linger for a very long timeThe use of lead in fuel goes back to the 1920s, when tetraethyl lead was added to petrol to reduce engine knocking. From 1970 until the end...
04 Sep, 2021, 12.39 PM IST
UN hails end of poisonous leaded gas use in cars worldwideLeaded gasoline has finally reached the end of the road, the UN environment office said Monday, after the last country in the world to use ...
30 Aug, 2021, 08.32 PM IST
Code Green for humanity: Rhetoric to actionThe UN IPCC report is a clarion call for the world to undertake urgent decarbonisation of economies and accelerate emission cuts. But are w...
25 Aug, 2021, 08.09 AM IST
COP26 last chance for world to limit global warming: British Indian climate action chief Alok SharmaSharma outlined the UK's presidency of the summit across four key areas of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees, enabling communities and...
14 May, 2021, 06.18 PM IST
India to get UN tag of international disaster response force for NDRF"Just like we have the Bureau of Indian Standards in the country, the UN agency INSARAG standardises disaster response teams across the wor...
10 Jan, 2021, 02.48 PM IST
View: The time is now to usher in a Green Industrial RevolutionBecause while the world has been dealing with the coronavirus, the dangers of global warming have continued to become more evident. From ca...
01 Dec, 2020, 10.23 AM IST
Carmakers are betting big on factory-fitted CNG variants amid rising demandThough passenger vehicles’ sales fell 18% last year, say industry watchers, CNG car sales increased 7% to over 117,000 units in FY20. The n...
31 Oct, 2020, 11.00 PM IST
India "walking the talk" on climate change commitments, says Prakash Javadekar at COP 25Speaking at a high-level meeting at the ongoing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 25 in Madrid, the minister presented...
10 Dec, 2019, 09.07 PM IST
Don't view climate change 'a business opportunity': Prakash Javadekar, Environment MinisterIndia demanded the developed world "must" fulfil it's financial commitment to ensure that critical technologies are made available at affor...
22 Apr, 2015, 01.34 AM IST
- Oil prices soften on US inventory report
Oil prices softened Wednesday on news that US stockpiles had declined last week roughly in line with expectations and as the market mulled ...
18 Jun, 2008, 10.20 PM IST
- Pakistan to set date for elections
Pakistan's election commission was expected on Tuesday to set a new date for polls, probably in February.
01 Jan, 2008, 08.27 AM IST