Muqbil Ahmar | Blog

While the  United States of America  has withdrawn from the  Paris Agreement ,  Asian superpower China  is marching towards emission reduction as well as  renewable energy  commitments. The  world’s biggest floating solar power plant  has been made operational in Huainan city, Eastern China. The 40-MW plant is situated on a reservoir and is in close proximity to the city. Offshore from Huainan, the plant has been successfully connected with the power grid. Being offshore, it does not take up space and uses less energy than solar farms as seawater acts as a coolant. Sungrow, the world's leading photovoltaic system supplier, has set up the plant. Floating solar power plants can be set up on water bodies such as lakes and seas, particularly near cities where land availability is less. China faces massive air pollution China, the most populated country on the globe is facing high degrees of  air pollution , which is estimated to...

The mass firings at some of India's leading Information Technology Sector companies has not gone down well with the employees. Ex-employees of  Indian  Information Technology  ( IT ) firms such as  Cognizant ,  Wipro , and  Tech Mahindra , who faced  layoffs  recently, are taking recourse against what they termed illegal and baseless job cuts, according to media reports. The complainants from Pune, India, have approached the  Maharashtra Commissioner of Labor  against former employers and have filed petitions seeking justice. They claim their services were  te rminated  without appropriate reason. According to the report, the petitions have been filed through  Forum of IT Employees  (FITE), a Chennai-based organization. There has been a flood of such complaints after major IT companies started  downsizing  in response to several factors such as  H1B visa reforms ,  automation , uncerta...