KOLLAM: Union Minister for Non-Conventional Energy Farooq Abdullah has said that the Central Government was not against the implementation of the Athirappally hydel project, if controversial areas are avoided.

PUDUCHERRY: The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy along with the Union Ministry of Telecommunications is working on converting almost all cellphone towers into

The year: 2004. The movie: Swades (Hindi for homeland). Shah Rukh Khan is playing the character of Mohan Bhargava, a non-resident Indian space scientist in the US. On a trip to meet his grandmother in India, Bhargava is appalled by the living conditions in her village, Charanpur, set in the plains near a river.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Electricity Minister A K Balan has said that the pilot distribution of 1.5 crore Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) will begin at the Thirumala, Mangalapuram, Attingal, Poovar, Pallam, Changanassery, Kuruppumthara and Kottarakkara sections of the KSEB on March 16.

Mr Bibek Bandyopadhyay, Advisor on the Solar Thermal Programme of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, has said that the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission aims at setting up 20,000 MW grid solar power and 2,000 MW of off-grid solar power by 2022.

Ever since the Copenhagen mess happened, India has been planning to independently launch a Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) trading programme to bring down carbon-intensive energy consumption. The New and Renewable Energy Ministry and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) want to roll it out in April.