-Hindustan Times When launching the International Solar Alliance (ISA) during the United Nations Climate Change summit in 2015 at Paris, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said, “The sun is the source of all energy, the world must turn to solar, the power of our future.” Last week, a solar power plant in Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu became the world’s largest plant. With a capacity to produce 648 MW of electricity, the plant comprises...
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I-T operations since cash ban yield Rs 2,000 crore; Over 400 inquiries conducted after Nov 8
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The income tax department has unearthed over Rs 2,000 crore in unaccounted income in search and survey operations across the country since the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes on November 8. The department also seized over Rs 130 crore in cash and jewellery. In a press note on Tuesday, the I-T department said it carried out more than 400 investigations after November 8....
More »How Gujarat's Maldharis Are Asserting Their Rights Over the Banni Grasslands -Gaurav Madan
-TheWire.in To oppose the forest department’s plan to limit open grazing, the pastoral community is formally pursuing their collective land rights through the Forest Rights Act. The sun has not yet decided to rise. It’s pitch black out but a group of Maldharis has already assembled for the last session of this year’s milking competition. Their massive buffalos are majestically adorned with intricate garlands and colourful necklaces. The panch (group of five...
More »10-rupee bait for cashless campaign -Ananya Sengupta
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Each citizen who performs at least two cashless transactions with the government will earn their district administration an extra Rs 10 from the Niti Aayog, to be spent on promoting e-payments across the population. This incentive comes over and above a sum of Rs 5 lakh that every district will receive for the campaign, launched today to try and make all government-citizen transactions cashless. As part of the drive,...
More »Bengal misses 'clean' cut
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The government has declared 362 towns and cities in 15 states free of open defecation, with Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra topping the chart and Bengal scoring a duck. The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan aims to make the whole of India open-defecation-free by 2019. In Gujarat, 167 urban local bodies have been provided with open-defecation-free certificates, followed by 91 in Andhra Pradesh and 70 in Maharashtra. (See chart) "A ward...
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