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India Yarn Prices: Domestic and Export Markets (Weekly Report)
2016-06-16 15:06:51| EmergingTextiles.com
Cotton yarn prices are further rising in India, being boosted by a continuous surge of cotton prices over a sudden wave of panic buying. Our review of Indian yarn prices covers the domestic markets in Ludhiana (Punjab) and Indore (Madhya Pradesh), with a wide range of products and counts, including cotton yarns (carded and combed), polyester spun, polyester-cotton, polyester-viscose and polyester-acrylic. Export market prices are also available for both cotton and polyester-cotton.
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India launches solar power road map
2016-06-15 17:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Action: India has launched a new road map to support its solar power targets and is making significant progress towards increasing renewable energy capacity by 2022. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a target in 2014 to increase solar power capacity to 100 gigawatts (GW) by 2022. The world's total installed solar power capacity was 181 GW in 2014 and the 2022 target would make India a global leader in the renewable energy sector. According to Piyush Goyal, India's Minister of State for...
India to vaccinate 300,000 children after polio strain found in sewage
2016-06-15 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India plans to urgently immunize around 300,000 children against the crippling polio virus after a strain of the highly contagious disease was detected in sewage in the southern city of Hyderabad, the ministry of health said on Wednesday. India was declared polio free by the World Health Organization in March 2014 after an almost two-decade long, multi-million dollar effort - lauded as one of the country's biggest public health achievements in recent times. A health ministry statement confirmed...
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Electric vehicles can become a rage in India. Heres how
2016-06-15 09:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hindustantimes: In March, minister for power, coal, new and renewable energy Piyush Goyal had announced an ambitious plan: Come 2030, every car user in India could have an electric vehicle (EV). Expanding on the plan, the minister added that EVs will be given without an upfront payment and paid for by users over a period of time from the savings made on fuel. The idea is inspired by the success of the government's campaign to promote energy-efficient LED bulbs, which has seen costs falling by 80% over 18 months...
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Climate change or not, power-starved India just can't help burning more coal
2016-06-15 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: More than a fifth of India's population lacks access to electricity, posing a major development challenge. India's prime minister Narendra Modi has promised to bring affordable access to electricity to all of these people by 2019. While Modi has committed to increasing renewable power generation, India is also increasing coal production. India is the world's third-largest coal producer and its second-largest coal importer. This is increasing the tension between development and India's efforts...
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