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    Civil Society Groups, Activists, Ask World Bank to Junk Gujarat Waste to Energy Projects

    ACEL’s operational WTE incineration plant in Jamnagar has already demonstrated significant negative impacts on the 25,000 people living in its vicinity and suffering from...
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    Coal Ministry Reports Record Production and Dispatch Figures for July 2024; Launches Initiative for Water Body Rejuvenation

    Minister for coal, G. Kishan Reddy emphasized the transformative potential of effectively utilizing mine water, including its use for industrial purposes, groundwater recharge, high-tech...
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    Bangladesh’s Historic Nuclear Fuel Initiative: Rooppur Plant Takes Major Step Forward

    Bangladesh's historic nuclear initiative is made possible through technical and financial support from Russia. The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant features two VVER 1200 reactors...
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    India Claims Major Presence in Global Coal Mining with SECL’s Gevra and Kusmunda Mines

    In the last fiscal year, the Gevra opencast mine achieved a coal production milestone of 59 million tons, demonstrating its critical role in India's...
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    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh’s Plans to Produce Electricity from Hydrogen, Ammonia by 2035

    Looking ahead, Prime Minister Hasina reaffirmed Bangladesh's commitment to increasing renewable energy's share to 40 per cent of the country's electricity production by 2041,...
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    Mines Ministry Launches Fourth Tranche of Auction of Critical and Strategic Minerals

    The union minister of coal and mines and the minister of state for coal and mines also declared the preferred bidders for the six...
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    Clean tech

    ‘Without Nuclear, it will be Almost Impossible to Decarbonize by 2050’: UN Atomic Energy Agency Chief

    Nuclear energy made history at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (the Dubai COP28), when 198 countries included nuclear energy in the list of...
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    Principal Scientific Adviser Chairs Meeting to Discuss Biomass Cultivation on Degraded Land

    Industry experts and key government officials from various ministries provided their inputs on various schemes under their departments for biomass cultivation and production of...
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