मौसम की मार को मात देते मकान

2006 में बाड़मेर के न्यू कोटड़ा में आई बाढ़ में हजारों घर तबाह हो गए थे। इसके बाद जिन मकानों को बनाया गया वे ...

The curious case of pneumonia

Disease hits camels across Rajasthan

Benchmark for protests

Gujjar form of protests are all the rage with people of Rajasthan, be they farmers or camel herders

Bon appetit with sun

Enter the world’s largest solar kitchen

Wings to Saras Crane

A community project conserves the non-migratory birds in Rajasthan

Budgeting power

Four Rajasthan villages get microgrid solar power using an innovative pre-paid meter that detects theft

Mobile radiation scare in Jaipur

Rajasthan says levels within permissible limit. Critics claim even ‘safe’ levels are harmful

Guggal faces sticky end

Ayurveda prescribes it for heart ailments; no data available on surviving plants

Water turns the tide

A barren district of Rajasthan is seeing development, thanks to rains last year and flood in 2006

Wind loses speed

Sector shows poor performance; government says it is a short-term phenomenon

Leprosy returns

Public health experts blame it on government complacency  

Built to last

A Rajasthan village has cylindrical houses that help people cope with extreme weather events

Curse of limestone

Farmers from 12 Rajasthan villages refuse to part with fertile land for cement companies

Water ATM

Sarvajal makes clean drinking water accessible to people

Rajasthan to have world’s largest solar power project

Sambhar Ultra-Mega Green Solar Power Project will have more than double the total installed power capacity of India

A looming biomess

Industry, government blame each other for green sector’s fall

‘Low solar energy tariff bids are sustainable’

The second batch of bidding for photovoltaic projects totalling 350 MW capacity in December under the national solar mission witnessed …

Solar threat to Sambhar

A mega solar power plant at Sambhar lake may spell doom for its fragile ecology and flamingoes

Endangered in Sariska

Death of a translocated tiger highlights the task force was not heeded

Lanco found guilty of false commissioning of plants

To lose bank guarantees for its four power plants in Rajasthan

Concentrated solar power projects may get second extension

Lack of experience in handling new technologies and dearth of funds have been cited as reasons for delay in commissioning projects

Solar trick

A number of solar mission projects operational only on paper

Guarantee of 14 companies under solar mission encashed

NVVN recovers Rs 28 crore from erring firms

Sun block

Financial woes, delay in raw material supply stall most of the concentrated solar power projects

Odisha seeks help to buy costly renewable energy

Other states may follow suit as cash-strapped state discoms find the going difficult