(ET) NTPC started power generation from India’s largest floating solar power plant at Kayamkulam in Kerala, on Friday. The 100 kWp floating solar generation plant, largest of its kind in India, was indigenously developed as a part of ‘Make In India’ initiative, at Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Plant (RGCCPP) in Kerala’s Kayamkulam district, the company said in a statement. Solar panels mounted on floating boards that hold them in place saves land usage and has been found to be efficient than the ones installed on land. These floating platform were indigenously developed by NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance, the…
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(ET) ONGC has put to production two discoveries it has made in Jorhat district in Assam in 2016-17. After almost three years this is ONGC’s biggest discovery in Assam. Director (Onshore) of ONGC, Ved Prakash Mahawar who was in Guwahati on Friday said, “After three years we have done reserve accretion 10 Million metric tones in Assam. We have made two good discoveries Sufayan and Dayalpur. We are getting production of 50 tones per day from these fields and the overall productioproduction of Jorhat asset have increased from 350 tones per day to 400 tones per day.” He added, “As…
(AT) जैसे जैसे चुनाव परिणामों के रुझान आ रहे हैं, राजनीतिक खेमों में धड़कनें तेज़ होती जा रही हैं. भाजपा को उत्तर प्रदेश में अपने वनवास के खत्म होने का इंतज़ार है. कांग्रेस को 27 साल से बेहाल यूपी में साइकिल का सहारा है. मायावती का हाथी अकेला चला है लेकिन क्या अपने दम पर वो बहुजन समाज पार्टी को सत्ता तक पहुंचा सकेगा या फिर इसबार साइकिल पर बैठेगा हाथी, ऐसे कई सवालों ने मतगणना के कौतुहल को और बढ़ा रखा है. अब तक मिले रुझानों में 244 सीटों में से 176 पर बीजेपी आगे चल रही है. सपा-कांग्रेस…
(Pragativadi) Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan recently visited MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts for an Energy conference and then gave a talk at Harvard last week. During his trip, the Odia community hosted a celebration to welcome him. Members of other Indian communities also participated in the event.
(HT) With the banking sector reeling under the impact of Rs 8 lakh crore stressed assets, the government and Reserve Bank of India on Friday drew up a plan to act on top defaulters.Sources told HT, finance minister Arun Jaitley discussed with RBI officials various options to deal with the menace of non-performing assets (NPAs) which was plaguing the banking system and preventing lenders from lowering interest rates. One of the alternatives that the government and RBI was considering for some time now was to set up of a “bad bank” to deal with the problem of non-performing loans, as it…
(ET) As many as 16 Joint Secretaries have been appointed in different central government departments as part of mid-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected today. Of the total bureaucrats, only six are from Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and rest from other central services like Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and Indian Information Service (IIS), among others. Anita Karwal, a 1988 batch IAS officer of Gujarat cadre, has been appointed Joint Secretary in Department of School .Education and Literacy. Shri Prakash, an officer of Central Secretariat Service, will be JS in Home Ministry, an order issued by Personnel Ministry said. Aparna S Sharma, also from…
Counting of votes for the high-stakes Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur will take place tomorrow morning with trends expected to be available by 11 am. By 12 noon, a final picture could emerge on who would be the major players in the five states.Election Commission officials said the counting of votes commences at 8 am and will be completed by late evening.Counting will take place at 157 centres — Punjab (53), Goa (2), UP (75), Uttarakhand (15) and Manipur (12).According to Election Commission guidelines, half-an-hour after the postal ballots are counted, the process of counting…
(NDTV) India’s first unmanned mission to the moon- Chandrayaan 1- which was believed lost, is still orbiting the moon, say NASA scientists.The Chandrayaan-1, which cost $79 million, was launched in 2008 to map the moon’s surface and look for precious resources. It was assigned a two-year mission. Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with Chandrayaan-1. Now, scientists at NASA have successfully located the spacecraft still circling some 200 kilometres above the lunar surface.Finding the spacecraft required some “detective work because the last contact with the spacecraft was on August 29, 2009,” said Marina Brozovic, a radar…
(HT) शराब कारोबारी विजय माल्या ने शुक्रवार को कहा कि वह 9,000 करोड़ रुपये के ऋण चूक मामले में एक—मुश्त निपटान को लेकर बैंकों के साथ बातचीत करने को तैयार हैं।माल्या ने टिवटर पर कहा, सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र के बैंकों की एक बारगी निपटान के लिये नीतियां हैं। सैकड़ों कर्जदारों ने अपने ऋण का निपटान किया है। आखिर हमें इसकी सुविधा से इनकार क्यों किया जाना चाहिए। हमने सुप्रीम कोर्ट के समक्ष जो पेशकश की थी, उसे बैंकों ने बिना विचारे खारिज कर दिया। मैं निष्पक्ष आधार पर मामले के निपटान के लिये बातचीत को तैयार हूं। उन्होंने आगे कहा, उम्मीद…
Action against black money is an on-going process. Such actions include policy-level initiatives, effective enforcement action on the ground, putting in place robust legislative and administrative frameworks, systems and processes with due focus on capacity building and integration and mining of information through increasing use of information technology. Recent major steps in this regard include – (i) Constitution of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Black Money under Chairmanship and Vice-Chairmanship of two former Judges of Hon’ble Supreme Court, (ii) Enactment of a comprehensive law – ‘The Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015’…