Energy in news on April 17

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around energy

National Air Quality Index: A solution with too many problems

Due to lack of monitoring and maintenance, most of the authorized centres have failed to record real-time data on air pollution

Modi's speech was about concerns of developing countries: Chandra Bhushan

Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Director General of Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi analyses Narendra Modi's speech at the COP 21 Paris

Windhoek to Jaipur: It is jet set go time for cheetahs

Three Namibian male and five female adult cheetahs, all between two to five-and-a-half-years-old, will make the 11-hour, transcontinental journey …

Taking off from CoP26: Is Green Grids Initiative the way forward for India?

The implementation of the initiative comes at an increased environmental cost due to waste disposal issues

Despite PM Modi’s assurance, land degradation, desertification increasing

Some 29.7 per cent of India’s land is degraded, according to a new ISRO atlas

COVID-19 underlines medicine interdependency, which is not good: Experts

Countries must come out of global value chain and become self-dependent, they said

Beware of a deal with Trump

As the US president comes visiting to India there is worry about the demands he will make on intellectual property

India's industrial production shrinks 1.1% in August

Quick estimates show declines in manufacturing, electricity andnegligible growth in mining

No ban on single-use plastics, to be phased out by 2022

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterates a commitment that India made last year

Happy birthday PM Modi; here are some messages from those affected by Sardar Sarovar

Filling the reservoir up to the brim may be good photo-op, but a dangerous one. Here’s why

Char Dham national highway has cost Uttarakhand its ecological balance

To assess the extent of the ecological damage that construction activity is causing, Down To Earth travelled 250 km on the Char Dham …

Is 100% electrification another myth before polls?

As with most govt schemes, real efficacy of Saubhagya scheme remains unclear & there is reason to question  if the real goal of power …

Inequality among farmers keeps 85 per cent out of discourse

Like in the formal economy, the farm economy also suffers from concentration of lands within a small group

Centre approves Operation Green pilot in 8 states

17 clusters have been chosen in 8 states to roll out the pilot of Operation Green, a Central scheme aimed to contain annual price distress …

A ‘kick’ass jibe

Could Akhilesh Yadav’s ‘gadha’ comment increase awareness about wild equid conservation in India?

Centre overrules Supreme Court directive on combined medical entrance test

The latest Union government’s rule intends to allow the states to conduct their own medical entrance exams for the current academic year

The unbearable burden of 2015

This is the second full budget of the NDA, coinciding with the second year of its governance

103rd Indian Science Congress begins at Mysuru

Event to stress on the use of science and technology for indigenous development in India

What Mr Narendra Modi needs to do for Ganga

Just planning more sewage treatment plants is not going to clean up the river

Power for all—can it be achieved?

Round-the-clock assured power supply programme to kick off with Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Rajasthan; finances and logistics pose a huge challenge

Modi mantra to a healthy and wealthy nation

The mantra of zero defect and zero effect manufacturing practice should translate into no pollution from industrial effluents

Mr Modi, how about including garbage in your sanitation deadline?

India is the sixth largest garbage generating country, but has made provision to treat only 12.5 per cent of it

Healthy maa Ganga needs healthy sisters

Varuna and Assi, the two tributaries of the Ganga that gave Varanasi its name and together defined the original extent of the city are fighting …

COVID-19: Centre brings package to boost bulk drugs

Indian pharma industry is critically dependent on imported raw material