The solar lights will help to save one billion litres of kerosene every year In the next three years, India plans to add 1,300 MW of solar power India plans to install 20 million solar lights and 20 million square metres of solar panel to generate 20,000 MW by 2022 as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, Union Minister for new and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah said on Monday. “By 2022,...
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Soon, a legal service on a par with IAS by Akshaya Mukul
A complete overhaul of the Indian Legal Service is in the offing. The law ministry is preparing a cabinet note for this purpose so as to bring the ILS on a par with the civil services so that the best students out of law schools join the government. It has started consultations with the department of personnel and training in this regard. A senior ministry official said recruitment will begin...
More »Petitioners in villages can meet top police officers at their doorsteps by K Raju
THENI: From now on, petitioners in remote villages need not wait in the corridors of district police office or in front of the office of the Deputy Superintendent of Police to hand over petitions or air their grievances. They can meet top district police officers at their doorsteps. Theni district police administration launched ‘Police Administration Towards People,’ a special meet-the-people-at-their-village programme, at Chinnamanur near here on Saturday. A team of...
More »Tribal vacuum in mainstream parties by Radhika Ramaseshan
The BJP has wrenched power in “yet another state”. The Congress is looking at long-term gains by refusing to back Shibu Soren. But the Jharkhand verdict has also opened the eyes of the two mainline parties to a disturbing realisation: their failure to “nurture” tribal leaders. “Both of us stand exposed as out-and-out upper caste parties who have failed to create, and worse, nurture tribal leadership. The mandate’s message is the...
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A new type of oral polio vaccine will be introduced in the country tomorrow as part of the campaign to eradicate polio, which has stubbornly resisted more than a decade of mass immunisation efforts based on orally administered vaccines. The bivalent vaccine is intended to immunise children against two types of wild polio viruses -- P1 and P3 -- that have persisted in India. A third type of the wild...
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