KOCHI: Ernakulam District Panchayat vice-president Bindu George presented a Rs 50-crore surplus budget for 2012-13 to the 26-member council on Thursday.

The budget envisages a total income of Rs 920 crore and an expenditure of Rs 870 crore.

Bharatiya Janata Party’s poster campaign for the MCD elections has green agencies seeing red.

Residents welcome plan to set-up power generation unit

The State Government's plan to set-up a power generation unit using the waste generated in the corporation has brought jubilation among the residents of Ramaiyanpatti, who have staged several rounds of protests against the dumping of garbage in the vast yard close to this hamlet.

Report is aimed at helping the State government know its overall position

Energy and power-related sources account for over 75 per cent of the emissions in Tamil Nadu and it is imperative for the State to adopt an overall renewable energy strategy to reduce the carbon intensity of power generation and lower its overall emission footprint, states a report on Tamil Nadu's carbon footprint.

In what may turn out to be a boon for developing countries, scientists claim to have created a device which can generate electricity from waste water.

SHILLONG: The State Government has decided to seek additional fund from the Centre to integrate waste to energy project in the sanitary landfill site at Marten, Mawiong.

“If the proposal of the State Government is approved, the State, which is going through a severe power crisis, can benefit a lot since the integration project would help in generating at least 4 megawatts of power,” Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh told The Shillong Times here on Friday.

Having signed an MoU with the Delhi Government for setting up India’s first Compressed Biogas (CBG) plant to convert waste into CNG, Sweden is likely to sign similar agreements with two more cities