Since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) on 2nd October, 2014, 570.69 lakh toilets have been constructed under SBM(G) as on December 22, 2017.

India presents a good example, as investment that's going into the private sector here is increasingly focused on clean energy technologies, said Tim Gould while talking to Anilesh Mahajan.

The purportedly \"offensive\" ad installed on big hoardings display two letters, MC BC (mac n' cheese, butter chicken), in big fonts, though people took it in bad taste and attacked the company for putting up such a \"demeaning\" advertisement.

Recommending stringent regulatory measures for scientific management of solid waste, faecal sludge, and sewage, the report suggests that local bodies enforce 'polluter-pays' norms.

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris deal was a \"death knell\" for the climate agreement, Indian environmentalists said today with some asserting that the US' move was an opportunity for India to provide global leadership on the issue.

Both organisations have decided to enter into an agreement as 'strategic partners' to work jointly for the achievement of common goals and objectives related to energy efficiency in India and abroad, Power Ministry said in a release.

An analysis by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) revealed on Tuesday that any gains from the roadrationing scheme in terms of air quality levels were entirely eclipsed by \"other sources of pollution\".

India's unprecedented water crisis is affecting everyone - from domestic user to farmer to industrialist. The lopsided cost vs price economics of water can have a debilitating effect on the country. What government, industry and farmers need to do to avert a catastrophe.

The hourly update of System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research showed an upward trend of PM 2.5 and PM 10 concentration since Monday morning.

Record hiring in solar, wind and hydro sectors is partly offsetting the biggest round of job losses in the oil and gas sector in almost two decades.

Delhi will have to work with a mix of short and medium-term measures to tackle its ever increasing pollution problems

TERI pointed out that this is an appreciable move to reduce air pollutant emissions in a short time frame.

\"Our arms and hearts are open to India,\" IEA chief economist Fatih Birol said on the sidelines of a workshop in the national capital jointly organised by the IEA, Niti Aayog and TERI.

The shift, reflecting China's stellar economic growth, raises questions about historical blame for rising temperatures and more floods, desertification, heatwaves and sea level rise.

At present, the country's installed solar power capacity stands at about 2,600 MW. The government has plans to scale this capacity up to 20,000 MW by 2022.

Government has scarce resources and also the customer is not going to pay higher prices for a product which is not economical, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said.

Hosted annually since 2009 by TERI North America and Yale University, the fifth US-India Energy Partnership Summit will broadly look at 'Accelerating Resilient Growth and Development', while addressing various issues related to energy efficiency, security, access and technology.

Building on methods developed by TERI and ONGC in India, Glori Energy, a Texas-based company, says it can extract another nine to 12 per cent - a third more than the oil originally extracted - while improving regular production by 60 to 100 per cent.

\"The one mega watt solar power plant has been set up at an investment of Rs 10.3 crore and was commissioned this month,\" the company said in statement.

Solar power has the potential to light up young India's sky-high aspirations and add muscle to the government's 24x7 electricity-supply promise.