The Centre is urging states to enhance the execution of micro-level action plans for crop residue management to mitigate the annual air qua...

The Centre is not in favour of reworking the MSP for paddy or other crops, ET gathers. The agriculture ministry holds that the fixed MSP wh...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Global Biofuel Alliance during the G20 Summit and invited world leaders to join. The allia...

Schneider Electric has invested in Biofuels Junction through its clean energy fund, Schneider Electric Energy Access (SEEAA). The Mumbai-ba...

SEEAA is an impact fund dedicated to investing in clean energy start-ups that work towards increasing the quality of life and boosting econ...

India is proposing a global alliance on biofuels among G20 members to accelerate sustainable biofuels deployment and support the global ene...

Puri announced last October that India, the world's third biggest oil consumer, would use its G20 presidency to try and set up an internati...

Smoke from the burning of crop stubble lingers over most of north India for weeks during the cold months of November and December, with air...

Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav made these remarks in his intervention during a discussion on the iss...

The Union minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change was speaking online at the launch of the country's first demonstration plant ...

In the past fortnight, NTPC Dadri power plant has been co-firing close to 70-80 tons of agro-residue fuel along with coal. The power plant ...

Farming in Punjab and Haryana produces 30 million tonnes of paddy stubble every kharif season. Most farmers burn this crop residue as there...

Chhattisgarh government has offered the Centre a solution to the problem of stubble burning in fields—set up ethanol or biofuel units using...

The report, which analyses the impact of pollutant PM2.5, showed that the highest contribution since October 11 by stubble burning was seen...

The world's third largest oil consumer is dependent on imports to meet 81 per cent of its needs.

Had the Delhi’s neighbouring states adhered to the guidelines of the two-year-old national policy for management of crop residue (NPMCR), t...

Sharma even suggests rapidly the plant should be upgraded to manufacture butanol instead of ethanol, which is an even higher value product,...