According to India’s submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), a combined electric power limit of 40 per cent from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources is to be introduced by 2030. The government has set an objective of introducing renewable energy capacity of 175 GW constantly 2022.
This comes in the backdrop of the ongoing crisis in discoms because of poor budgetary health, which has led to delayed payment to generation utilities.
A team of researchers from Kolkata-based CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Bose Institute and Jadavpur University have figured out how tuberculosis bacterium is released from its reservoir inside the human body.
This is India’s first such project with Australia for a third country. Earlier this year, Australia earmarked a sum for assisting projects in South Asia. A $ 25 million programme over four years, which will begin this year and focus on improving the quality of infrastructure and investment particularly in transport and energy sectors.
India will start making ethanol from surplus and degraded food material like rotten potato, rotten wheat, broken rice and other biomass to achieve the milestone of 10 per cent ethanol blending with petrol by 2022.
The defence minister has accorded approval to allow private companies to compete with ordnance factories and DPSUs for the award, the statement said. The revised format includes awards in institutional, and individual and team category for excellence in technological breakthroughs; indigenisation or import substitution; and excellence in exports, it said.
It was “mind boggling” how India had lifted 271 million people out of poverty in the 2006-16 decade, he said on Tuesday at a special event, “From Commitment to Achievement: India’s Experience in Localising the SDGs”, held during the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development here.
Australian sheep will be part of a sheep breeding program for wool development, an initiative under India’s National Livestock Mission.
The ‘Centre of Excellence’ was established by IIT-Hyderabad and BDL with the intention of making use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in developing missile technology. Some preliminary work on it has already begun. “It will completely be developed indigenously,” Siddharth Mishra, chairman and managing director, Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL)
The 8th meeting of India-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism was held in New Delhi on July 16, 2019.
