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TSPL using globally-benchmarked environment and safety practices
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Mansa (Punjab) [India], July 18 (ANI): Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd (TSPL) has said it adheres to globally-benchmarked environment and safety practices, making it Punjab's greenest thermal power plant and among the foremost zero-harm, zero-waste, zero-discharge thermal power producers in the coun
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NGT asks CPCB to ensure states, UTs ban use of petcoke, furnace oil
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has asked the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to ensure that states and Union Territories (UTs) ban the use of petcoke and furnace oil as fuel to prevent damage to the environment and public health.
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Possibility of over 100 litres of fuel leakage into Russia's Lake Baikal f
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Krasnoyarsk [Russia], July 17 (Sputnik/ANI): Over 100 litres of fuel could have leaked into Russia's Lake Baikal from a banked vessel, the press service of Baikal Inter-Regional Environmental Prosecutor's Office told Sputnik.
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Buenos Aires gets offer from Moscow on Uranium mining in Argentina
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], July 17 (Sputnik/ANI): Buenos Aires has received an offer from Russia on possible uranium mining in Argentina with the use of modern environmentally friendly technologies, Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Jorge Neme told reporters.
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NGT seeks report on environmental damage by TSPL's unscientific management
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 16 (ANI): The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought an action taken report (ATR), including restoration plan and compensation assessment, for the damage caused to the environment due to the unscientific management of fly ash by Talwandi Sabo Power Limited (TSPL) in
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China propagates clean environment but continues to be largest coal produc
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 11 (ANI): Over the years China has received much applause for its clean environmental speeches at climate change and environmental events. However, on the ground reality narrates a different story as China continues to be the largest coal producer globally.
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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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Diplomatic crisis deepens as African workers upset over exploitation by Ch
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Harare [Zimbabwe], July 9 (ANI): China is supposedly stomping new grounds in Africa, particularly, with significant interests in the mining industry. But the anger over the treatment of African workers in Chinese mining companies has triggered a burgeoning diplomatic crisis and exposed the e
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New study sparks reminder for seagrass preservation
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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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L&T Infrastructure Finance closes $100 million ECB from AIIB
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 7 (ANI): L&T Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (LTIF) has received the first tranche of 50 million dollars of the total 100 million dollars external commercial borrowing loan from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a multilateral developme
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China discreetly launches initiative to combat 'illegal activities in key
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 5 (ANI): Without vying much attention of South-East Asian countries, China has discreetly initiated a maritime law enforcement initiative aimed at enhancing marine environmental protection and combating "illegal activities in key areas", including offshore oil explo
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Less number of migratory birds arriving due to Tunga dam construction: Env
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Shivamogga (Karnataka) [India], July 4 (ANI): Due to construction of Tunga dam the number of migratory birds coming to the Mandagadde Bird Sanctuary in Shivamogga district has reduced considerably, said Ajay Sharma, environmentalist, on Saturday.
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