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Winter Tales 2025 Opens In Shillong With Focus On Craft, Community And Sustainability

The three-day festival at Wards Lake highlights indigenous skills, ecological design and Meghalaya’s living cultural heritage Winter Tales 2025 opened on Thursday at Wards Lake in Shillong, marking the start of a three-day celebration of indigenous craft, music, food and community-led creativity. Now in its sixth edition, the festival is organised by The Meghalayan Age […]

Climate Risks To Drive Clean Energy Shifts In 2026 Along With AI & Geopolitics : Report

S&P Global Energy’s Horizons report flags surging datacentre load, SAF expansion and rising climate-related costs as energy systems enter a year of structural pressure S&P Global Energy has released its Top Trends 2026 report outlining the developments set to shape clean energy technology, sustainability pathways and global energy markets in the year ahead. The assessment, […]

Air Pollution Kills 9 Mn People Each Year As Warming Intensifies Global Health Risks

UNEP’s GEO-7 report warns that climate change and rising pollution are reinforcing a dangerous cycle affecting health, food security and ecosystems Air pollution and climate change are reinforcing a “vicious cycle” that is driving rising illness, ecosystem damage and mounting economic losses across the world, according to the Global Environment Outlook-7 (GEO-7) report released on […]

BlackRock To Invest Up To Rs 3,000 Cr In Aditya Birla Renewables

Commitment strengthens India’s clean energy expansion as ABREN targets 10 GW-plus platform Aditya Birla Renewables has secured a major investment commitment from Global Infrastructure Partners, part of BlackRock, marking one of the largest primary equity infusions into an Indian renewable energy platform. The agreement covers an investment of up to Rs 3,000 crore, including an […]

Late-afternoon Farm Fires Undermine Satellite Data: Study

New satellite analysis shows that late-afternoon fires in Punjab and Haryana are being missed by traditional monitoring systems, revealing that stubble burning remains far more widespread than active fire counts suggest India’s official tracking of stubble burning may be significantly underreporting the scale of fires in Punjab and Haryana, as most large farm fires now […]

CERC Eases Grid Entry For Renewables With Key GNA Clarifications

This order addresses several industry-wide challenges and ensures smoother implementation of Solar Hour/Non-Solar Hour Access, connectivity approvals, ESS operations, land compliance, and source-change issues Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has issued a crucial ‘Removal of Difficulties’ order under the GNA Regulations, bringing long-awaited clarity and stability for solar, wind, hybrid, and ESS developers. This order […]

Vingroup Signs $3 Bn MoU With Telangana For Multi-sector Ecosystem

Smart City, EV Fleet, Solar Project And Tourism Hub Planned Across 2,500 Hectares Vingroup has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Telangana for a proposed phased investment of USD 3 billion to build a wide multi-sector ecosystem in the state. The agreement, signed at the Telangana Rising Global Summit, covers cooperation […]

UP Crosses 3 Lakh Rooftop Solar Installations, Adds 1,038 MW Capacity

State Emerges Among India’s Leading Solar Markets With Strong Rural Uptake Uttar Pradesh has crossed the landmark of three lakh rooftop solar installations, recording a total of 3,00,654 completed systems and an installed capacity of 1,038.27 MW. This places the state among India’s top performers in the rooftop segment, behind Gujarat and Maharashtra, and marks […]

Sterling & Wilson Wins Rs 1,313 Cr Solar EPC Contract In South Africa

New 240 MW project lifts FY order inflows to about Rs 5,088 crore as South Africa emerges as a key overseas market for the company Sterling and Wilson Renewable Energy (SWREL) has secured a solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract worth Rs 1,313 crore in South Africa, further deepening its presence in one of […]

Theia Ventures Backs Bio AI Startup Lemnisca To Speed Up Industrial Biomanufacturing

Pre-seed funding to support Bengaluru lab, AI platform and pilots as Lemnisca develops an “AI companion for fermentation”   Theia Ventures has led a pre-seed round in Lemnisca, a Bengaluru-based Bio AI startup building intelligent systems to scale industrial biomanufacturing. The round also saw participation from PointOne Capital and Satakarni Makkapati. The capital will be […]