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East Delhi campus of GGSIPU to be ready by November next year: Sisodia
The east Delhi campus of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) will be ready by November next year, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Tuesday after inspecting the construction site and reviewing the progress being made. The east Delhi campus of the university will cater to 1,500 students and offer courses such as Bachelors in Architecture and Planning, Masters in Architecture and Planning, Bachelors in Design, and Masters in Design. "The Deputy CM directed the officers and engineers that even if they have to work day and night, they must complete the project before the stipulated date of completion," an official statement said. "Only 45 per cent of the campus area is going to be covered by buildings, those too will have vertical gardens. Ten per cent of the land will be for sports activities and 100 sq metre will be for parking," it said. The campus will have administrative block, academic block, sports block, auditorium and hostel facility for 270 boys and 180
Modi, Hasina jointly inaugurate oil pipeline, rail projects
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday jointly inaugurated the construction works of a cross-border oil pipeline and two rail projects, with the former describing the two countries as members of the same family.
Repair work of road bridge over Farakka Barrage soon: Minister
Repair work of the road bridge over Farakka Barrage across River Ganga will be taken up within a fortnight as it is not in a good condition, West Bengal Transport Minister Suvendu Adhikari said on Tuesday. The crucial road bridge over the 2240 metre-long barrage is on National Highway 34, which connects south Bengal and other southern parts of the country with the north-east. "Condition of the road bridge over the Farakka barrage is not good," Adhikari said. Repair work of the bridge will begin in the first week of October and will take approximately six months, he said. A portion of the arterial Majerhat bridge in south Kolkata collapsed on September four leading to the death of three persons and long-term disruption of traffic movement in vast parts of south-western Kolkata and South 24 Parganas district. The Majerhat bridge will be pulled down and reconstructed, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said last week. During the repair of Farakka bridge, there will be certain ...
Local polls candidates to get 1 yr to submit caste certificate
The Maharashtra government decided on Tuesday to extend the time for submission of caste validity certificates for contesting local body elections from the present six months to one year after filing of nomination. The objective was to ease the workload of the Caste Validity Committee, as it will get more time to process applications filed by candidates, an official in the chief minister's office said. The proposal was approved at a weekly cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis here, he said. The 'Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act' will be amended for this purpose, he said. The cabinet on Tuesday also decided to set up Mahanet's Network Operation Centre at Navi Mumbai and Disaster Recovery Site at Nagpur. MahaNet, a state government's initiative, aims to digitally connect 12,740 gram panchayats in 172 talukas, the official said. Under the project, a fibre optic network of .
Mosquito fogging just gives impression to people that govt is working: NGT
Outdoor anti-mosquito fogging is ineffective and it just gives an impression to people that the government is doing something which is a false sense of security, the National Green Tribunal has said and ordered the authorities to check the sources of vector-borne diseases in the city. A bench of NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said steps should be taken by civic bodies to cover dumping sites with mud and disinfectants should be used. "Chemical insecticides are required to be used to control adult mosquito breeding. However, outdoor sprays are not effective except to give an impression to people that the government is doing something which is a false sense of security. Instead, indoor spraying may be more effective," the NGT said. The green panel said that after monitoring the matter for two years, it was of the opinion that further continuous monitoring is to be left to the statutory authorities consistent with the guidelines already issued, including the long term action ...
Met warns of heavy rainfall in Odisha till Friday
Heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to lash several parts of Odisha till Friday due to the formation of a low pressure area on Tuesday over the Bay of Bengal, the Met department said. The low pressure area, formed over east-central Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas, is likely to become more marked and concentrate into a depression in next 36-hours, the Meteorological Centre here said Tuesday. Under its impact, heavy rainfall is likely to occur in some places over coastal districts of the state on Wednesday. Similarly, heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to lash some places in south and coastal parts with possibility of extremely heavy rainfall in some places of Ganjam, Gajapati, Puri, Rayagada, Kandhamal, Kalahandi and Koraput districts on Thursday and Friday, it said. Thereafter, the intensity of rainfall is likely to decline with the likelihood of downpour in isolated places of Nuapada, Nabarangpur and Kalahandi and north interior region, it said. In view of ...
India, Bangladesh members of same family: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday described India and Bangladesh as members of the same family while inaugurating with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina a pipeline project and a railway project connecting the two countries.
PM Modi, Hasina jointly inaugurate Indo-Bangla friendship pipeline
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday described the cooperation between India and Bangladesh as an example for the world as he and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurated the construction of a friendship pipeline project through video conferencing. The 130-kilometre India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline Projec will connect Siliguri in West Bengal in India and Parbatipur in Dinajpur district of Bangladesh. The 346 crore rupees project will be completed in 30 months and the capacity of the pipeline will be one million metric tons per annum. Both countries had entered into an agreement for the pipeline construction in April this year during Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale's visit to Dhaka. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister described the cooperation between the two countries as an example for the world, according to an official statement. He said that the two countries were neighbours, geographically and family, emotionally, it said. Modi said the proposed ..
Amazon India eyes more than 50 FCs in 13 states by year end
E-commerce giant Amazon India will end 2018 with more than 50 Fulfilment Centres in 13 states across the country with a combined storage space of close to 20 million cubic feet,a senior company executive said Tuesday. Amazon's largest Fulfilment Centre in Karnataka was opened near Attibele on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border, close to Bengaluru Tuesday, with a view to enhancing customer experience ahead of the festive season. The centre is one of the five announced for 2018, company Vice President (Customer Fulfilment) Akhil Saxena told reporters. Saxena said the facility would hire 2,000 contractual positions over the next year. "There are several hundred people working outside the facility as delivery associates," he said. Spread over around 350,000 square feet with close to two million cubic feet of storage space, the centre would enable faster delivery to customers in the region, he said. With this infrastructure, Amazon has increased its storage capacity by more than .
Socomec to display switching equipments at Renewable Energy Expo
Socomec, a world leader in industrial switching will display array of photovoltaic switching equipments for Solar Park and Roof top applications.With displays at Hall 1, Stall No.1.3, Renewable Energy Expo, Greater Noida between 18th to 20th September 2018, PV applications are one of the most stringent for disconnect switches.Extreme fluctuations in temperature, condensation, dust, UV exposure and oversized connection cables stress the components. Socomec takes the opportunity to bring the awareness among the PV fraternity to switching over from conventional DC switches to PV rated switches to guarantee safe and reliable PV installations.Current market scenarioSolar PV market in India has finally come of age. We already have large utility scale solar installations up and running, along with some initial momentum on rooftop installations that have had been on a relatively modest start however, a couple of recent policies by the energy ministry along with industry initiatives have ...
SBI to install solar panels over 10,000 ATMs in 2 yrs
In a step towards becoming carbon neutral, country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) is looking to install solar panels over around 10,000 ATMs across the country in the next two years, a senior official said. Currently, nearly 1,200 of the bank's ATMs are running on solar power. "We are going to take this number to up to 10,000 ATMs in the next two years," the bank's chief financial officer, Prashant Kumar, told reporters Tuesday. The lender has installed rooftop solar panel on 150 of its building across the country and is in the process of identifying more such locations. "Our aim is that by next year, close to 250 buildings of the bank will be having solar panels," he said. The bank is also planning to replace all its vehicles with electric vehicles by 2030. Kumar further said that the bank has embarked on a journey to turn carbon neutral and aims to achieve it by 2030. It is organising a green marathon starting September 30, to be held in 15 cities across the .
PMCs to play crucial role in revamping fisheries management in
Participatory Management Councils, one of the new amendments to the Kerala Marine Fisheries Regulation Act, will play a crucial role in revamping the fisheries management system in the state, according to experts here Tuesday. Marine scientists who spoke at a workshop on 'Scientific management of marine fisheries, Kerala,' at the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute here, said the councils would ensure involvement of all the stakeholders, including fishermen, in management and policy formation in the sector. Sunil Mohamed, Principal Scientist at the CMFRI, said the councils would open a platform for dialogue and discussions to take decisions on a particular issue in a democratic way. "This participatory management will address the requirements for sustainability, equity and efficiency in fisheries and coastal resources management," he said. The participatory management councils will function as a three tier system at the village, district and state levels. The ...
Project to treat Barapullah drain sewage and generate biofuel launched
Union minister Harsh Vardhan inaugurated a project on Tuesday under which a first-of-its-kind technology will be used to treat sewage from Delhi's Barapullah drain and generate biofuel from it. The Local Treatment of Urban Sewage Streams for Healthy Reuse (LOTUSHR) project at the Sun Dial Park in the national capital can convert 10 lakh litres of sewage into clean water and generate three tonnes of biofuel. "The biotechnology department has presented an example of how we can convert a drain into a profitable mine. It is at an experimental stage. We are taking water from the drain and cleaning it. The clean water can be used in our kitchen, garden, toilet, etc.," the minister for science and technology said. "We have set up a laboratory here. Now, we can scale it up to the extent we want. It can become a model for the entire world," he said. A professor from the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), associated with the project, said, "The technology will recover carbon from sewage ...
Mamata stresses on need for preservation of water resources
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday emphasised the need for preservation of water resources on the occasion of World Water Monitoring Day. Banerjee, in a post on Twitter, said that a number of ponds were either created or renovated over the last seven years under the state-run 'Jal Dharo-Jal Bharo' scheme. "Today is World Water Monitoring Day. This year's theme is 'Nature for Water'. Our govt launched the 'Jal Dharo-Jal Bharo' scheme in 2011 with the objective of conserving precious water resources. 2,33,158 ponds have been created/renovated in seven years under this scheme," she said. The scheme was launched in 2011-12 with an aim to preserve water resources by harvesting rain water, as well as arresting run-off of surface water through construction and management of minor irrigation structures. The World Water Monitoring Day is celebrated annually since 2003 by America's Clean Water Foundation (ACWF), which aims to grow public awareness and ...
Lowest solar tariff underpins India's clean energy transformation: IEEFA
Gujarat's 500 MW solar tender results have delivered India's record low tariff of Rs 2.44 per kilowatt and this underpins the country's transformation to clean energy, US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said on Tuesday.
EU probes VW, BMW, Daimler over alleged emissions collusion
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen colluded to restrict the rollout of clean emission technology, a move that could lead to hefty fines for the German carmakers.
RPower eyes stressed thermal coal-based assets to boost growth
Reliance Power Chairman Anil Ambani today said the company is looking at inorganic growth through acquisition of stressed thermal coal-based projects. Speaking to shareholders at the company's 24th annual meeting, Ambani said, "going forward, we are looking at key growth opportunities for the company. One of those is inorganic asset acquisition of stressed thermal coal-based assets through resolution process by lenders or under the NCLT regimes." He said the company will continue to look at opportunities that will bring value and are growth accretive with strong, stable and conservative financial profile. "Besides acquisition, we are also looking at opportunities in the operation and maintenance (O&M) services for stressed power projects which are under the review petition of the resolution," Ambani said. Apart from this, he added, mine development operator service is another growth area considering their experience in this field, and the company being the largest ...
EU probes German carmakers over clean emissions
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission opened a formal investigation on Tuesday into whether German carmakers BMW, Daimler and VW Group had colluded to avoid competition in developing clean emission technology.
EU targets BMW, Daimler, VW in pollution cartel probe
The EU opened an in-depth probe into alleged collusion by major German carmakers over anti-pollution technology Tuesday, a fresh blow to the scandal-hit industry three years after the notorious "dieselgate." Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said BMW, Daimler and VW are suspected of agreeing "not to compete against each other on the development and roll-out" of anti-pollution systems for petrol and diesel passenger cars.
PNC Infratech provides update for NHAI road project in Uttar Pradesh
Project detail - Six-laning of Chakeri Allahabad section NH-2 (from km 483.687 to km 628.753) in the state of Uttar Pradesh under NHPD Phase-V