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Sterlite Tech to provide Tech solutions to Kakinada Smart City
Sterllite Tech will partner with Kakinada Smart City Corporation to design, build and manage Smart City solutions over a strong web scale, smarter optical transport network with optical fibre backbone.
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Third List Of Smart Cities Out, Thiruananthapuram Tops The List
The Government Today announced the third list of Smart Cities. So far 90 cities are selected by the government.
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Is India Ready To Fight A Drought Condition?
On 17 June, World day to combat desertification and drought, BW Businessworld digs India’s preparedness to tackle a drought condition
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Government launched ‘Tele-Law’ programme
In the first phase, the ‘Tele-Law’ scheme will be tested as a pilot across 500 CSCs in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to understand the challenges and make necessary corrections to the scheme before it is scaled up and rolled out across the country in a phased manner.
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Govt built 33,76,793 Household Toilets and 1,28,946 Community Toilet so far: Naidu
So far 688 cities have been declared Open Defecation free (ODF) and 531 of them have been independently verified and certified as ODF.
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IARI developing water treatment plant that uses agri waste
The system will include floodplain filtration technique, which includes using plants and microbes, apart from rice husk, for purifying water
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NGT Refuses To Set Aside Closure Of Auto Dealers Hear Lake
A total of 76 polluting industries around the lake were shut down by the authorities in pursuance to the green panel's order after a mound of garbage was set on fire in February this year, leading to massive pollution in the area.
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REPL, Grant Thornton & ANB Consortium Consultants For Varanasi Smart City
The consortium will assist the Varanasi Smart City Ltd. in various phases of project implementation, which will include the activities such as, preparation of DPR, coordination with various appointed consultants, project prioritization & phasing, preparing capital investment plan, implementation roa
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Cities may be 8 degrees Celsius hotter by 2100: study
The top quarter of most populated cities, in this scenario, could see the mercury rise 7 C or more by century's end, said a study in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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Competitive bidding to change dynamics of wind power sector
Higher off-take from power distribution companies with lower tariffs will also support capacity additions
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