by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 18, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
New Delhi: Electric vehicle (EV) makers' body SMEV Wednesday sought an allocation of Rs 20,000 crore in the next two years for promoting EVs in the country and also urged the government to impose a "notional green cess" on conventional vehicles in the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2019 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
WASHINGTON: The World Bank Group today launched its Action Plan on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience. Under the plan, the World Bank Group will ramp up direct adaptation climate finance to reach $50 billion over FY21–25. This financing...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2019 | Facts, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
Most people don’t turn on their car’s headlights and think, I wish they were brighter. Shuji Nakamura is not most people. The Nobel Prize-winning illumination scientist has spent the past five years developing a laser-based lighting system....
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh Thursday indicated announcement of major measures in the coming weeks to address farm distress across the country, a move that will come ahead of Lok Sabha elections. The agriculture ministry has...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 17, 2019 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
NEW DELHI: The government plans to create a business enterprise register that will have details of all kind of businesses being run in the country as it gears up to conduct a nationwide economic census in 2019-20, a top official said Thursday. "We...
