(Bloomberg) As a solar panel was raised onto the roof of their mud-brick home in a Tanzanian village in sight of Mount Kilimanjaro, Akida Saidi and his wife felt giddy at the prospect of entering a new era.
Solar pay-as-you-go plans have been hailed as the answer to bringing clean, affordable electricity to millions, but the system can break down catastrophically.
(Bloomberg) For a few years, Prai Witu village in Indonesia was a shining example of the good that clean energy can bring to an impoverished community.
In 2017, the national government and Millennium Challenge Corp., a foreign-aid arm of the U.S.
So great was his passion for police force that Deputy Superintendent of Police Aman Thakur, who was killed in an encounter in Kulgam on Sunday, gave up two government jobs to don the uniform. Thakur, who is in his late 30s, first got a job in the social welfare department and was later appointed as lecturer at a government college in view of him having master s degree in Zoology.