Praj bags prestigious breakthrough order from HPCL
March 10, 2021
Shishir Joshipura, CEO and MD, Praj Industries×
To set up a project in UP using proprietary microbe to produce compressed biogas from rice straw. Praj Industries has bagged the prestigious breakthrough order from Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) for setting up the Compressed Biogas (CBG) project at Badaun in Uttar Pradesh. Praj is offering its state of the art RenGas technology developed using proprietary microbe to produce CBG from rice straw.
The project can process 35,000 MT of rice straw as feedstock to generate 5,250 MT of CBG annually. Also, the project will generate 23,000 MT high quality solid bio- manure and 350,000 MT of liquid bio-manure for ferti-irrigation. This project has the potential to save up to 15,000 MT of CO2 emissions per year. The project will be completed and commissioned within 12 months timeframe.
No single person or institution killed the Badaun girls. I’d say that we all did
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Synopsis London-based journalist and author Sonia Faleiro tells Sharmila Ganesan Ram how she unwound the tangle of differing eyewitness accounts to tell their story in her new book called ‘The Good Girls’.
(This story originally appeared in on Feb 14, 2021)
Padma, a 16-year-old given to singing, had just embroidered a parrot with a furry beak. Lalli, her poetry-loving 14-year-old cousin, had always wanted to be “something”. Then, on May 27, 2014, their bodies were found hanging from a tree. The chilling image triggered London-based journalist and author Sonia Faleiro to return to her home country to investigate the callously reported and sloppily investigated tragedy that shook Badaun in UP. The result of repeated visits to the village over four years is a potent new book called ‘The Good Girls’. Faleiro tells Sharmila Ganesan Ram how she unwound the tangle of differing eye
UP: BSP leader kills self at Sahaswan tehsil office in Badaun, blames harassment by SDM in suicide n
UP: BSP leader kills self at Sahaswan tehsil office in Badaun, blames harassment by SDM in suicide note
A 40-year-old BSP leader committed suicide at a tehsil office in Uttar Pradesh s Badaun district after he was allegedly harassed by the SDM and a revenue official over a land allotment issue. The BSP leader, who left a two-page suicide note, held the sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) of Sahaswan tehsil and a kanungo responsible for the extreme step.
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UPDATED: February 8, 2021 05:53 IST
Harveer Singh, the BSP leader, died after he consumed some poisonous substance on Saturday at the Sahaswan tehsil office, police said. (Representational Image)
UP Woman Forced to Drink Acid, Stabbed by Neighbour for Resisting Sexual Assault Attempt
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In a shocking incident, a woman in Sikri village of Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district was forced to drink acid and then stabbed in the stomach by her neighbour after she resisted his attempts to sexually assault her inside her home.
The 30-year-old woman was admitted to the district hospital by police, but she has now been referred to the Higher Centre, Bareilly, due to her serious condition. Her alleged attacker, Satendra, has been arrested, police said.
According to the police, late in Monday night, Satendara, who is the woman’s neighbour, entered her house forcibly and started molesting her, but when she resisted his advances, he forced her to drink acid. When she tried to shout to alert people, Satendra attacked her with a knife kept nearby, injuring her in the abdomen.