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Who Made Your Solar Panel? India’s ALMM Rules and the China Question

Who Made Your Solar Panel? India’s ALMM Rules and the China Question India hopes to build a solar industry that does not turn on another country’s decisions. In modules, it has worked. Further up the chain, the reality is still being decided in China. By Rohit Rao N, Principal Partner   2 November 2026   9 min

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Why one can’t compare Gandhiji’s Civil Disobedience Movement with the Shaheenbagh Anti CAA protest.

Gandhiji and his followers were protesting against laws passed by a Ruler who was not elected by the people of India; whereas the Anti CAA protest was essentially against the democratically elected Government’s legislation. The disobedience of Gandhiji was a necessity because there was neither political or judicial recourse to challenge the Rowlatt Act; whereas

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FUTURE OF RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION IN KARNATAKA

The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (“KERC”) has issued a discussion paper dated 24th August 2020 inter alia proposing to discontinue the banking facility extended to solar, mini-hydel, and wind power projects henceforth, for both REC and Non-REC route-based projects. The proposal is twofold- a) to not provide any banking facility for such power projects and

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