Industry players have sought clarity on the proposed move from the state government.
Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh has written to the Prime minister on the need to review the earlier central plan to develop six 'nuclear parks'.
In a country where there is such a disparity and large part of population living in villages are below the poverty line, the need for CSR supersedes everything.
Premji met Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and expressed his intentions to work with the state government in this regard.
Of the $1.4 trillion investment opportunities, almost $90 billion each is proposed in petrochemical projects and power generation, $88 billion in water desalination plants and $50 billion in natural gas-related projects.
This will benefit 4,217 high-tension industrial consumers, whose daily power requirement is 2,000 Mw.
BP has valued Reliance Industries' (RIL) new exploration and production (E&P) business at around $25 billion (Rs 1,12,500 crore), according to Goldman Sachs.
The government has made several region-wise and sector-wise allocations in its annual plan and budget proposals.
NPCIL will comply with all the 35 conditions stipulated by MoEF.
With the cricket World Cup mood building up, bookies and punters across India have taken their positions. Sources involved in betting, who did not want to be identified, fearing police action, estimate a turnover of about Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion).
Aggregate figures for a sample of 43 companies (excluding oil & gas PSUs as well as those in the banking, telecom and software sectors) in the BSE 100 index suggest that operating profit margins (OPMs) were down by 63 basis points (bps) year-on-year in the December quarter and that there appears to be no major causes for concern.
The state-run Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) recently handed over the land. The company was exploring investment opportunities in various states and finally selected a site at the Shendre industrial estate near Aurangabad.
The ministry holds about 1.73 million acre of land.
The legal battle between Lavasa Corporation, an arm of Hindustan Construction Company involved in the development of a hill city in Maharashtra, and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is expected to prolong further.
India has set a new record by crossing 10,000 Mw of capacity addition in a single financial year since Independence.
Lavasa is attempting to create an idea that such a city can be built, and rapidly, and not only restore or preserve the ecology but enhance it as well.
During the ongoing crushing season, mills have so far produced 3.36 million tonne (mt) of sugar and unsold stocks have touched 1 mt. Sugar prices are at Rs 2,585-2,630 a quintal, compared with Rs 2,850 a quintal on December 31.
On the back of recent controversies involving the release of Niira Radia tapes, allocation of 2G spectrum and alleged financial irregularities in the Commonwealth Games, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) plans to launch a "moral leadership" campaign to combat the rising incidents of corruption.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan plans to overhaul the Rs 15,000-crore Dharavi redevelopment project. Chavan - who has already flagged what he called an "unholy nexus" among builders, politicians and middlemen in the wake of the Adarsh housing society scam - now wants state-run Maharashtra Housing & Area Development Authority (Mhada) to carry out the big-ticket project.
Truck rentals during calendar year 2010 rose by 24-40 per cent on trunk routes, with robust manufacturing growth and high consumer spending. However, the rentals stabilised during December and are expected to remain firm in the first quarter of calendar year 2011.
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