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Vadla is the most famous female crane among the common cranes who have been visiting India for the past two years. Like last year, this year too, Vadla, tagged with a transmitter (GPS), started her journey from her winter home in Nalsarovar wetland in Gujarat to her breeding home in Kazakhstan on March 29.
On April 4, Minister of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar announced on social media, Remember Vadla, the common crane. After spending nearly five months since October 10, at its wintering site near Nal Sarovar bird sanctuary near Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Vadla has moved over site in the mountains,125 km northwest Karachi and in the next few days it will travel through vast deserts of Pakistan, Balochistan, Turkmenistan before reaching its breeding ground in northern Kazakhstan.
Solar power majors get $3-billion shock from Supreme Court order
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Developers estimate the total cost to change the existing overhead wires to underground cables at ₹22,000 crore (approximately $3 billion), requiring a tariff hike of 10-15% if they have to bear this entire cost, industry insiders said.
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Emails to SB Energy, ReNew, Adani Green, Acme Solar, Hero Future Energies and NTPC were not answered till press time on Monday.
A Supreme Court order that requires overhead power lines to be taken underground in the habitats of a critically endangered bird is likely to hurt the financial viability of solar projects in Rajasthan and Gujarat. Developers estimate the total cost to change the existing overhead wires to underground cables at Rs 22,000 crore, requiring a tariff hike of 10-15% if they have to bear this entire cost, industry insiders said.