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58 stories for “Power” · March 2026
Clear filtersOverview In 2026, India’s Vishva Mitra Policy emerged as a transformative foreign policy framework that moves beyond traditional diplomacy toward a results-oriented, partnership-driven global engagement model. The policy...
Overview In 2026, the financial restructuring of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Generation and Distribution Company (TANGEDCO) became a critical focus of state governance due to its mounting debt and operational losses. Over...
R.M. Nachammai has become the first woman to head a working nuclear power plant in India. She takes charge as Chief Superintendent of Units 3 and 4 of the Kaiga Generating Station in Karnataka from 15 March 2026. As Chie...
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has launched LaBL 2.0 (Lighting a Billion Lives 2.0) in New Delhi to expand decentralised renewable energy in India. It promotes Decentralised Renewable Energy (DRE) solutions su...
The Mumbai suburban district administration in Maharashtra has launched the 'Saksham Skill Survey', described as India's first skill census powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The survey will assess the skills of yo...
The Government of India is establishing the country's first integrated plant based on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) at Kavaratti Island in Lakshadweep. OTEC is a renewable energy technology that generates electr...
In March 2026 the Union government invoked the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 to keep Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) adequately available during a global energy crisis. On 5 March 2026, oil refining companies were direct...
In early 2026, the highly authoritative Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) officially released a deeply comprehensive, heavily data-driven national report issuing a stark, highly stern warning regarding the rapidl...
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has launched a Moonshot Project to build brain co-processors that combine neuromorphic hardware with Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. Brain co-processors are devices that co...
Meenambal Sivaraj, born on 12 December 1904 in Rangoon, Burma, was a leading voice for Scheduled Caste rights and women's empowerment. Her father, V.G. Vasudeva Pillai, became the first SC member of the Madras Legislativ...
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin launched new schemes and opened several projects in Chennai. The MSME Department's Tamil Nadu Women Entrepreneur Empowerment Scheme (TWEES) aims to help 1 lakh women become entrepreneurs in fiv...
India and Canada have signed a $1.9 billion agreement for the supply of 10,000 tonnes of uranium between 2027 and 2035 to fuel India's nuclear power plants.The uranium will come from the Canadian company Cameco, supporti...
