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ADB approves USD 1 billion package for rapid transit system in India
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], August 18 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a USD 1 billion (about Rs 7,485 crore) loan to support the construction of the modern, high-speed Delhi-Meerut regional rapid transit system, a first of its kind in India.
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Railways stress on transporting cars by trains to reduce carbon emissions
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 3 (ANI): The Central Railway is emphasising on transporting cars by trains to reduce carbon emissions, helping to achieve the Indian Railways' target of a mass transportation network with 'Net Zero' carbon emission by 2030.
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Alliance for Agri Innovation celebrates 25 years of growing GM crops
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 27 (ANI/NewsVoir): Alliance for Agri Innovation (AAI), a special interest group of Federation of Seed Industry of India (FSII) celebrates 25 years of planting biotech crops globally.
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Post-Covid-19 green recovery must embrace sustainable aviation fuels: IATA
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 9 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Thursday emphasised the aviation industry's commitment to its emissions reduction goals and called for the International Energy Agency (IEA) to prioritise investment in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) t
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Hitachi ABB Power Grids wins Rs 120 crore order for Indian Railways electr
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 9 (ANI): In an order worth Rs 120 crore, Hitachi ABB Power Grids India will be delivering its transformers to the government's Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) for the production of 400 passenger and freight locomotive engines.
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Maruti Suzuki offsets 3,000 tonnes of carbon emissions by transporting car
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 8 (ANI): Maruti Suzuki transported more than 6.7 lakh cars through the Indian Railways in the past six years, witnessing a compound annual growth rate of over 18 per cent and helping the country's largest passenger car maker offset nearly 3,000 tonnes of carbon emissi
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New study sparks reminder for seagrass preservation
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], July 7 (ANI): According to a new study, an increase in carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to five million cars a year has been caused by the loss of seagrass meadows around the Australian coastline since the 1950s.
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Why pulsars shine bright, a half-century-old mystery solved
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 16 (ANI): When Jocelyn Bell first observed the emissions of a pulsar in 1967, the rhythmic pulses of radio waves so confounded astronomers that they considered whether the light could be signals sent by an alien civilization.
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Airline sector unlikely to fully recover before 2023, faces deep structura
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Singapore, June 8 (ANI): Air passenger demand globally will remain severely depressed in 2021 and will not see a substantial recovery before 2023, according to Moody's Investors Service.
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Bobble AI launches #TapToConserve this World Environment Day; introduces a
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI/PRNewswire): In some ways, the dire lockdowns undertaken to stop COVID-19 fast-forwarded global efforts to action an almost impossible bold climate control measure all at once. In a matter of weeks, the skies in polluted cities got cleared as emissions dropped.
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Maruti Suzuki commissions 5 MW solar power plant in Gurugram
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): Maruti Suzuki India Ltd said on Friday it has commissioned a five-megawatt carport-style photovoltaic solar power plant in Gurugram to strengthen its commitment towards a greener future.
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Global leaders discuss sustainable development amid COVID-19 crisis
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 5 (ANI): India has voluntarily set out ambitious targets through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) about reducing emissions intensities as well as to have 2.5 to 3 billion metric tonnes of carbon sequestration, said Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadeka
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