| Solar Mission looks at 20,000 Mw by 2020 | 12-NOV-09 |
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| The ambitious Solar Mission of India, which envisages to generate 20,000 Mw of solar power by 2020, would come as a boost for the solar plates and accessories manufacturing industry of the country. |
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| 'Ready to talk to anyone on Kashmir' | 29-OCT-09 |
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| In a fresh initiative, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed the Centre’s willingness to “talk to anyone” having “meaningful ideas” to promote peace in Jammu and Kashmir and offered to resume dialogue with Pakistan provided it curbed activities of those engaged in terrorism in India. |
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| Highest rail station to be operational on Oct 28 | 27-OCT-09 |
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| India’s highest broad gauge rail station at Qazigund, about 80 km from Srinagar, at an altitude of 1,722 metres would become operational on October 28 when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurates the Anantnag-Qazigund section of the ambitious Kashmir rail link project. |
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| Centre to launch solar mission on Nov 14: Farooq | 17-OCT-09 |
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| Union minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah today said that India was planning a major thrust in sphere of renewable energy sourcese, especially solar and wind energy. |
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| Centre for renewable energy plan in Ladakh | 14-OCT-09 |
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| The Centre is preparing a development plan for harnessing renewable energy in Ladakh keeping in mind the expected load and hydro power potential of the region. |
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| Badal urges Abdullah to enhance subsidy for solar water pumping system | 21-SEP-09 |
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| The Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab Sukhbir Singh Badal today urged Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy to enhance the central subsidy for solar water pumping systems for irrigation and allied purposes from Rs 30 per watt to Rs 100 per watt to make the system viable for small and marginal farmers. |
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| Pilgrimages, shrines to go green | 17-SEP-09 |
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| The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy will be promoting the use of renewable energy in pilgrimages and shrines like Tirupati, Pushkar and Amritsar. The government has already started an initiative towards this from Shirdi, said Union minister Farooq Abdullah. |
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| Newsmaker: Ghulam Nabi Azad | 14-AUG-09 |
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| Azad was always a reluctant chief minister; coping with the swine flu scare might make him yearn for his former job. |
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| Gas is good | 03-AUG-09 |
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| Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah is quite open about the fact that not too many people in his state think too highly of his new job. He is called, he said, the gobar gas minister. Abdullah said that soon after he was sworn in and allocated the new and renewable energy portfolio, he received a call from a Kashmiri politician who lamented his being ‘demoted to gobar gas minister’. |
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| Renewable resources | 24-JUL-09 |
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| Farooq Abdullah has apparently been changing his mobile numbers so frequently, even his son Omar Abdullah has a tough time keeping track of them. |
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| 59 ministers to be sworn in today | 28-MAY-09 |
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| Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s offices worked the phone all Wednesday to inform 59 colleagues to stay in town and be ready to be sworn in as ministers following the unveiling of the second list of council of ministers. An earlier list of 19 Cabinet ministers was announced two days ago. With today’s list, the strength of the council of ministers goes up to 79, including the PM. |
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| Farooq may not get Cabinet berth | 19-MAY-09 |
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| National Conference (NC) patriarch Farooq Abdullah’s dreams of becoming a Union Cabinet minister are likely to get a cool response from the Congress leadership, which has decided to treat its ally from Jammu and Kashmir on a par with the Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). |
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| Congress will emerge as single largest party: NC | 07-MAY-09 |
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| The National Conference today said the Congress will emerge as the single largest party after the Lok Sabha polls and there could be some "surprises" with the possible realignment of political forces. |
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