So farmers and agriculture don a grayish, sooty shade after hogging news mostly as victims and the ignored. Farmers, especially in the Punjab to UP belt burn paddy stubble to clear the field in order to prepare it for sowing wheat. The smoke from these burning fields has reportedly added ...

Xpressions, one of the biggest Management-Cultural fest India, is a three-day extravaganza which is scheduled to take place from 10th to 12th November 2017. At the heart of any management fest lies the business events, and Xpressions 2017 offers a plethora of multi-faceted competitions to its various stakeholders. Keeping the ...

The Kerala State Women’s Development Corporation (KSWDC) will implement a new social empowerment scheme for tribal women in Chakkittappara panchayat, where lack of self-employment opportunities has been identified as a major hurdle for growth. The new scheme, to be launched on November 19, aims at training tribal women in various ...

There has been a great thrust on food processing in the past few years. Food processing, by virtue of its contribution to the food value chain, plays a critical role in the food ecosystem and can directly affect the habits and health of its source and target segments. The Ministry ...

The Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (‘Saubhagya’) launched in September, which claims to ensure electrification of all willing households in the country, is too ambitious a project. While it makes grandiose promises to provide a free electricity connection to all willing Below Poverty Line households and to all ...

Rapid increases in installed capacity and favourable weather conditions pushed renewable energy generation in India to an all-time high earlier this year. In July 2017, the share of renewable energy generation among India’s total electricity generation and imports touched 13.2%, the highest ever in the country. Total electricity generation and ...

XPRESSIONS, the annual flagship event of XIMB, is the biggest Management – Cultural fest of Eastern India. Spread across 3 days, it provides the participants with a competitive platform, opening avenues for sharing experience and ideas, and showcasing skills and talents, to reach their collective and individual goals in various managerial ...

French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will in December share their sunshine moment in India to formalise the International Solar Alliance(ISA), giving a boost to RE-Invest 2017, the bi-annual global investor conference, where New Delhi is expected to leverage its leadership position in green energy for investments. Macron will be in Delhi ...

India is well on track to its planned 100 gigawatts solar-power generation capacity by 2022. The biggest problem country is facing with solar plant installations is requirement of huge areas of land. Floating power plants can help solve this problem and are coming up in several states of the country. ...

The Centre’s ambitious scheme to attract top international talent in the country’s research and development ecosystem has received an enthusiastic response with nearly 260 global scientists filing applications, of whom 70 would be shortlisted, a senior official said. Department of Science and Technology Secretary Ashutosh Sharma said the screening of ...