Indian Infrastructures and Capabilities
As per the final alignment, the main terminus will be at the Cantt railway station while other stations will be at Sajan, Rathyatra, and Girjaghar (Godowlia) crossings.
On a landmark day for the Union Territory of Ladakh and its people, construction on 05 major road infrastructure development projects was launched by His Excellency the Governor of Ladakh Shri Radha Krishna Mathur, from Turtuk, the northernmost village of India. The ground breaking ceremony was also attended by the Chief Executive Councillor, Leh Mr TashiGyalson, MP Ladakh Mr Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, Defence Secretary Mr Ajay Kumar and Director General Border Roads Lt Gen Rajeev Chaudhry besides overwhelming villagers from nearby areas.
Carbon Clean’s technology, consisting of a modular carbon capture skid, has been installed at Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur steel plant in India. The facility is capturing 5 t/d of CO2 from the blast furnace. The captured CO2 is reused onsite for a variety of applications such as for water treatment. Tata Steel plans that scaled-up facilities in the future will be able to use captured CO2 to produce methanol and other value-added products.
India and the UK are likely to announce a joint declaration on “one sun, one world, one grid” — or OSOWOG, a concept New Delhi has been pushing through its International Solar Alliance — at the upcoming COP26.
A new direct rail line from Bogura to Sirajganj in Bangladesh will be developed under a government of India Line of Credit (LoC). As a first step towards this an agreement between Bangladesh Railway and a joint venture company of India was signed on Monday, 27 September in Dhaka.
The Indian government is pulling out all the stops to achieve renewable energy (RE) capacity of 150 gigawatts (GW) by 2 October, said two people aware of the development, seeking anonymity.
The digital map defines Green, Yellow and Red Zones across the country for drone operations and is available on DGCA’s digital platform https://digitalsky.dgca.gov.in/home. The Green Zone consisting of the airspace up to 400 feet and up to 200 feet above the area located between 8-12 kilometres from the perimeter of an operational airport require no permission for operating drones with an all-up weight upto 500 kgs.
India’s second-largest fuel retailer is looking to create a 1,000 MW portfolio of renewable power generation capacity
“This is a historic step both for J&K and its people. Foreign travellers will soon be able to arrive directly in Srinagar,” civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said at a joint press conference with J&K lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha. The media interaction followed a detailed review of all aviation matters related to the J&K, by Sinha and Scindia.
The ministry informed that the 10KW transmitters are the highest altitude TV and Radio transmitters in the country, located at the height of 4,054 metres (about 13,300 ft) above the mean sea level. The range of the transmitter is over 50km in radius. And the transmitters at Leh are at an altitude of 3,501 metres (about 11,450 ft).
