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Prolonged sitting can cause serious health damage, important health tips for office workers

March 16, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, 16 March 2024: Adani Energy Solutions Limited (AESL), India’s largest private transmission and distribution company and part of the globally diversified Adani Portfolio, has been conferred with Indian Industry body CII’s coveted Climate Action Programme ‘CAP 2.0 Award’ for 2023 in the ‘Resilient category’. The ‘Resilient category’ recognizes the company’s significant strides in resilience […]

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CAA: India rejects the US ‘concerns’, says it’s an internal matter

March 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Strongly defending the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 as India’s “internal matter,” New Delhi on Friday rejected the USA’s comments on its implementation as misplaced, misinformed, and unwarranted. Those who have a limited understanding of India’s pluralistic traditions should not attempt to lecture us, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesman Randhir Jaiswal […]

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EVs: New policy to boost domestic manufacturing, bolsters Tesla’s entry plans

March 15, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Centre on Friday approved a new policy to boost domestic manufacturing of electric vehicles (EVs), envisaging a minimum investment of USD 500 million (Rs. 4,150 crores) and encouraging high-volume production, economies of scale, and lower costs of production. It also aims at reducing air pollution, lowering the trade deficit, and […]

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Tourism: Indians shun the pro-China Maldives, make it feel the pain

March 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Four months after electing Mohamed Muizzu as their President, the Maldivians are ruing the day they got carried away with his “India Go Back” slogan. The island nation, now firmly pro-China, is feeling the pinch as a large number of Indian tourists are shunning it. Amid the ongoing diplomatic row, the […]

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Recovery: Post-pandemic, poorer countries failed to bounce back, says UNDP

March 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing their conditions deteriorate, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) chief has said. According to UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner, the finding is a “very strong warning signal” that nations are now drifting apart. […]

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Adani Green Energy completes operationalization of 300 MW wind power project in Gujarat

March 14, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, 14 March 2024: Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL), India’s largest and one of the world’s leading renewable energy (RE) companies, has operationalized 126 MW wind power capacity in Gujarat. This marks the completion of the 300 MW of project, with 174 MW being operationalized earlier. The 300 MW wind project will produce ~1,091 million […]

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Roving Periscope: PLA is ailing, but Beijing flexes muscles!

March 14, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: China’s spirit is willing but its flesh is weak! Although President Xi Jinping, who has been purging officials left, right, and center to spruce up both the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and his government, to free them of “lethargy and corruption, things don’t seem to be working well for China. Worried […]

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What you dream, you create and What you think, you become: Gautam Adani

March 13, 2024 Vinayak Barot

In an event held in Mumbai, Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani said, I am honoured and inspired to stand before you today. Honoured, because in this room, I see the young leaders who embody our nation’s unlimited potential. Inspired, because each of you are shaping the future of our matrubhumi. I am also delighted to see so many […]

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AdaniConneX’s Hyderabad Site Gets Five-Star Grading from British Safety Council

March 13, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Ahmedabad, 13 March 2024: The Hyderabad data center of AdaniConneX – the joint venture between the Adani Group, India’s largest private infrastructure and energy provider, and EdgeConneX, one of the world’s largest private data center operators – has received Five-Star grading in the Occupational Health and Safety Audit conducted by the British Safety Council. This […]

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America: It’s Biden v/s Trump, again, in the November 2024 polls

March 13, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As they did four years ago, US President Joe Biden, 81, will face his predecessor Donald Trump, 77, again in the November 2024 presidential election for which their respective parties—Democratic and Republican—renominated them as candidates on Super Tuesday. The two rivals secured renominations as presidential candidates for the polls, setting up […]