Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd (IIFCL), to finance renewable energy projects. The MoU will empower IREDA and IIFCL to engage in Co-Lending / Co-Origination and Loan Syndication for all categories of Renewable Energy projects, including Small Hydro projects. Both organisations will strive to also fix interest rates for IREDA borrowings for a period of three to four years. Further, IIFCL may invest in the bonds issued by IREDA, as per the terms and conditions of the issue. The MoU was signed today, September 4, 2023,…
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US President Joe Biden has expressed his “disappointment” over his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping’s likely absence at this week’s G20 Summit in New Delhi.According to news reports, Chinese Premier Li Qiang is expected to represent China at the summit which will take place from September 8 to 10 in the Indian capital. “I am disappointed… but I am going to get to see him,” Biden told reporters on Sunday, without providing any further details. The last time the two Presidents met was at the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, in 2022. Xi had earlier said he would travel to New Delhi…
The voice of ISRO rocket launch countdowns, Valarmathi, who was last heard during the lift off of India’s lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 on July 14, has dwindled for eternity. The scientist, aged in her fifies, passed away due to heart attack on Saturday at a private hospital in Chennai. She lent her voice to countdowns for rocket launches and spacecraft in Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota. The countdown for Chandrayaan-3 turned out to be her final contribution to the nation as India’s third lunar mission was launched on July14 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. According to ISRO sources, she was not…
DMK Minister Udayanidhi Stalin’s remarks that ‘Sanatan Dharma’ had to be eradicated has snowballed into a major controversy with BJP training its guns on the INDIA bloc, of which DMK is a part of, stating a complete eradication of Hindu dharma is the primary agenda of the Opposition coalition. BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said on Saturday that the remarks have exposed the real character of the INDIA bloc. “This is not a statement given in isolation. It has a complete consequential sequence,” Trivedi said. “The DMK leader’s remarks within 48 hours after the ‘Ghamandia’ alliance’s meeting in Mumbai has…
Hoping to extend the life of the Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday said it had put Pragyan rover in an hibernation mode as the daylight time on Moon is coming to an end. “The Rover completed its assignments. It is now safely parked and set into Sleep mode. APXS and LIBS payloads are turned off. Data from these payloads is transmitted to the Earth via the Lander,” ISRO said in a tweet. ISRO said the Pragyan rover, a critical part of the Chandrayaan 3 mission, has successfully traversed 100 meters on the Moon’s surface. It is…
The government has formed an eight-member high level committee to explore the possibility of conducting simultaneous polls across the country and suggest changes to the Constitution for the same. A government notification issued on Saturday said the panel will be headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind. Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and former MP Ghulam Nabi Azad are members of the committee. Jurist Harish Salve, former CVC Sanjay Kothari and ex-chairman of finance commission N.K. Singh, former secretary general of Lok Sabha Subhash C. Kashyap are the other members of the panel. Law Minister Arjun Ram…
India’s maiden solar mission, Aditya L1, on Saturday set off on a 125-day journey to the Sun in its attempt to study various elements relating to Earth’s nearest star, after being put into the orbit by a PSLV rocket that touched a new technical milestone in the launch vehicle segment. Union Minister Jitendra Singh, who witnessed the launch from the Mission Control Centre (MCC) here, dubbed it as a “Sunshine moment” for the country.. “Congratulations! The Aditya-L1 spacecraft has been injected in an elliptical orbit of 235/19,500 km which is intended very precisely, by the PSLV, a very unique mission…
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday informed that about 93 per cent of Rs 2,000 currency notes have been returned to the banks.The bank further informed that now only Rs 0.24 lakh crore of such notes are left with public. According to the data received from the banks, the total value of Rs 2000 banknotes received back from circulation is Rs 3.32 lakh crore up to August 31, 2023, RBI said in a statement. “Consequently, Rs 2000 banknotes in circulation as at the close of business on August 31, 2023 stood at Rs 0.24 lakh crore. Thus, 93 per…
The two-day opposition leader’s INDIA conclave concluded in Mumbai declaring that they will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections together “as far as possible”. A joint statement was released by the INDIA alliance parties after the meeting on Friday. The seat-sharing arrangements in different states will be initiated immediately and concluded at the earliest in a collaborative spirit of give-and-take, said the statement. The alliance adopted a resolution to this effect and said its theme for the elections will be “Judega Bharat, Jeetega India, (India will unite, India will win)”. “We, the I.N.D.I.A parties, hereby resolve to contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections…
August 30 marked the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances, with Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) documenting at least 65 journalists missing globally. Official indifference and failure to investigate these disappearances cast a chill on other reporters and devastate the journalists’ families, who are often left in the dark with little to no support. Mexican journalist Jorge Molontz Centlal vanished in 2021 in Mexico, the country with the highest number of missing journalists globally—16. Nearly one in four documented missing journalists disappeared in Iraq and Syria between 2012 and 2014. Some have been missing longer: Isam al-Shumari, an Iraqi camera operator for Sudost Media,…