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Lessons from China: Tapping the power of the alternative

Last week brought forth yet another headline about China

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11/02/2011
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Get toilet, solar light free if you build houses in 6 months: World Bank offer to Kosi

The World Bank has offered to Kosi flood relief beneficiaries an incentive that is expected to put the reconstruction process on fast track: rebuild your houses in six months and get toilets and solar lights worth Rs 7,300 free of cost.

The offer stands for 1,00,00 beneficiaries under the $259 million Bihar Kosi Recovery Project started in collaboration with Bihar government recently.

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10/02/2011
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Railways to set up green fuel plants

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07/02/2011

Indian Railways is poised to set up four bio-diesel plants at a cost of `120 crore, in potentially one of the biggest initiatives for the bio-fuel production in the country.

While two bio-diesel esterification plants are going to be commissioned at Raipur and Chennai during the next two years, the other two units will be set up subsequently, a senior railway ministry official said.

Each plan

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Leading Light: Boswal now a CFL village

Fatehabad: Boswal village with a population of over 1,700 persons has become the first village in the district to have adopted compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) for lighting their homes.

The village is inhabited by families displaced from Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh at the time of construction of Bhakra Dam.

Additional Deputy Commissioner Ashok Meena, whose efforts helped the village

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04/02/2011
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Need effective policies to protect environment: PM

PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday that India needs to put in place effective regulatory policies to protect the environment but these should be enforced without bringing back the licence-permit raj. Environmental concerns have blocked or delayed several large projects, including Posco

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04/02/2011
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PM calls for global action to deal with climate change

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called for a coordinated global action to deal with the challenge of climate change and stressed the proper enforcement of regulatory standards to prevent green damage.

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04/02/2011
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Khurshid asks industry heads to go green

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03/02/2011

New Delhi: Union minister for water resources Salman Khurshid cited Indian democracy for the nation

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Theni has good potential for wind power generation

THENI: With high potential for wind power generation and availability of large tracts of open land and an excellent climate, several new companies, including foreign wind power units, have been thronging the district for setting up of windmills.

Such an overwhelming enthusiasm has resulted in sharp increase in the number of wind power units in the district.

The total number of functioning wi

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