New Delhi: India plans to double its renewable energy capacity to 55,000 MW by 2017 as part of efforts to increase efficiency of its energy use, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here on Wednesday. "It is proposed to double the renewable energy capacity in our country from 25000 MW in 2012 to 55000 MW by the year 2017," he said inaugurating the Fourth Clean Energy Ministerial conference here.
He said this would include exploiting non-conventional energy sources such as solar, wind power and energy from biomass. Singh said India's 12th Five Year Plan recognised the importance of evolving a low carbon strategy for inclusive and sustainable growth.
"We have set ourselves a national target of increasing the efficiency of energy use to bring about a 20 to 25 per cent reduction in the energy intensity of our GDP by 2020," he said, adding that the Plan envisaged an expanded role for...
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03:40 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: KR Nayar, a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), has been suspended on charges of sexually harassing a student. JNU Public Relations Officer Poonam Kudaisya said on Sunday that KR Nayar was a senior faculty member at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health (CSMCH) and been suspended following allegations of sexual harassment made against him. The order of suspension was issued on Friday and will remain...
04:27 PM, Apr 07, 2013
India is looking forward to establishing a club of nations blessed with sufficient sunlight and harness energy to promote solar power as a substitute to the conventional form of energy, Union minister Farooq Abdullah said in New Delhi on Monday. ...
02:00 AM, Mar 12, 2013
The United States on Wednesday filed a challenge with the World Trade Organisation over elements of India's national solar program, which it said discriminates against foreign solar products in violation of a core global trade rule. ...
06:21 AM, Feb 07, 2013
It is a song that is sung on every patriotic occasion, had moved India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to tears and its strong morale-boosting words provided solace to a nation agonized by the defeat in the 1962 India-China war. ...
04:58 PM, Jan 25, 2013
Silent protests are being held across the capital on Saturday as a mark of respect for the 23-year-old Delhi braveheart who died 12 days after being most heinously assaulted and gangraped by six men aboard a moving bus in the national capital. People started gathering at Jantar Mantar here at around 10.00 am and sat in silence. Aam Aadmi Party leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Kumar Vishwas also joined...
11:41 AM, Dec 29, 2012
The students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University came out in large numbers on Tuesday to protest against the gangrape of a medical student inside a moving private bus in Delhi. They blocked the Ring Road at Munirka where the incident took place. ...
02:20 PM, Dec 18, 2012
Hyderabad: Hyderabad police have busted a racket of tampering with answer sheets of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) in Hyderabad with the arrest of 12 people on Thursday. Gang members, including students from engineering colleges in the city, were held for tampering with B.Tech examination answer sheets after taking them in their custody while transporting the bundles from various colleges to the JNTU examination branch at Kukatpally, police said. The...
10:11 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Here is the full text of Aung San Suu Kyi's lecture at Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial: There can be few occasions in life more fulfilling than those on which debts of kindness and friendship can be repaid. These past few months have furnished me with many opportunities to thank peoples and organizations and governments for their staunch support for the democratic cause in Burma and for me personally. The sympathy and...
01:44 PM, Nov 15, 2012
New Delhi: Nobel Peace Laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi today said Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were the two Indian leaders to whom she felt "closest" and recalled how and she and India's first prime minister had many things in common. The India-educated pro-democracy icon, who is coming to this country after 25 years, said many of the challenges faced by Gandhi and Nehru along the...
06:46 PM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: The nation on Wednesday fondly remembered the countrys first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 123rd birth anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice President Hamid Ansari leading the country in paying homage to him. Mukherjee, Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh paid floral tributes to Nehru at Shanti Van, his memorial on the banks of Yamuna in New Delhi on Wednesday morning amid chants of hymns and...
11:37 AM, Nov 14, 2012
New Delhi: BJP on Sunday alleged that the UPA government is following the "same elusive and self-destructive course" that was adopted by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru before the 1962 Indo-China war and demanded that appropriate steps be taken soon. A day after the 50th anniversary of the Indo-China war, BJP also demanded that the Henderson Brooks report be made public and a National War Memorial be set up in...
12:41 AM, Oct 22, 2012
Exactly 50 years ago, in October 1962, India went to war with China, which for many was, one of India's darkest hours in its military history. The man who was seen as Mahatma Gandhi's political heir, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was an avowed man of peace and in his initial years as Prime Minister, even as the Cold War escalated, Nehru spoke of peace. "Thinking for war and preparing for war, ...
09:53 AM, Oct 15, 2012
Nayantara Sahgal is the Sinclair Prize, Commonwealth Writers Award and Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. She is the daughter ...
01:01 PM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: Kenya's Edwin Kipyego won the men's elite section in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday. In the women's category, Ethiopia's Yimer Wude came out on top. Meanwhile, among the Indian participants, Rahul Kumar Pal finished on top in the men's category, while Sudha Singh won in the women's category. The marathon, which began at 6.30 am in the morning at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in central Delhi, featured...
08:59 AM, Sep 30, 2012
On her first visit to the US since her release, Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi said that dealing with crisis, one step at a time helps her to calm down. ...
06:34 PM, Sep 23, 2012
New York: Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has described Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru among her "greatest sources" of influence, as she encouraged American students to read the works of India's Father of the Nation. Suu Kyi, said Gandhi, civil rights activist Martin Luther King and her father and "political mentor" Aung San were all men of principles and she read works by them to keep herself disciplined...
02:12 PM, Sep 23, 2012
On her first visit to the US since her release from house arrest, Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi said that Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were major influences on her life. ...
09:11 AM, Sep 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and city police to ensure that no "beef and pork" festival takes place in the campus on September 28. A student organisation of the university had announced plans to hold a beef-and-pork festival on September 28. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said, "The JNU and police are directed...
08:44 PM, Sep 19, 2012
In a recent blog post, I introduced readers to Garry Davis, the first "world citizen," who has spent his life trying to convince ...
12:03 PM, Sep 18, 2012
