India and European Union will discuss issues of mutual interest during the first joint industrial energy conference in New Delhi next month.
GAMES-TOURISM Tourism industry asked to cash on C'Wealth Games New Delhi, Aug 19 (PTI) With over one lakh foreigners expected to throng the city during Commonwealth Games, tourism industry must gear up to reap the benefits, Tourism Minister Kumari Selja said today.
Energy-hungry India, which currently faces huge power deficit, will become an electricity surplus country in next four-five years, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told Rajya Sabha on Monday.
The plant started operations after Supreme Court vacated a stay granted by Gujarat High Court on pooling of LNG prices to make fuel affordable to the power plant.
A crucial meeting of the Congress Legislature Party to choose Goa's next chief minister got underway in Panaji on Thursday.
After visits to the US and Europe, a power ministry delegation is headed for Japan, Singapore and Malaysia for conducting roadshows to attract foreign investors in the country's power sector.
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday refused to react to R K Singh's allegations against him, saying he no longer considered the retired bureaucrat as being a former home secretary but saw him as a politician and Bharatiya Janayt Party man.
The government plans to operate a second unit of Dabhol project on naphtha from May to partly tide over the massive electricity shortages in Maharashtra during summer.
"We have set a target of 5,653 MW capacity addition in the first 100 days of this government. We have already achieved 2,300 MW... We hope to achieve the target," Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters in New Delhi. The power ministry has added a meagre 15,000 MW capacity out of the targeted 78,700 MW, during the XIth Plan period (2007-12). "With proper planning and time bound implementation, we can achieve the target," Shinde said.
The Cabinet has decided to waive interest on loans taken by all farmers across the state.
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power, which emerged as the lowest bidder for the 4,000 MW ultra mega power project at Krishnapatnam, will be awarded the contract in a few days.
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power, which emerged as the lowest bidder for the 4,000 MW ultra mega power project at Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, will be awarded the contract in a few days, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Tuesday.
Back after roadshows across the globe, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday exuded confidence that foreign investors will line up for the government's ambitious ultra mega power projects.
This is to enable Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to reduce the size of his cabinet as per a Constitutional amendment.
The Congress-led DF government on Friday said it would "listen to grievances of the captains of industry" before its actual implementation.
Over 1200 cinema halls in Maharashtra will down their shutters from May 16 with their owners pressing for reduction in taxes, increase in seating capacity and simplification of rules for licence renewal.
State-run Power Finance Corporation on Thursday awarded the 4,000 MW Sasan and Mundra ultra mega power projects to the two successful bidders Lanco Infratech and Tata Power respectively.
PGCIL planned to take a loan of about $2 billion (Rs 8,350 crore) from World Bank and $1 billion (Rs 4,150 crore) from Asian Development Bank, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
The chief minister has retained the urban development and co-operation, and general administration and urban land ceiling portfolios.
The beleaguered Dabhol power plant is unlikely to be restarted this month as was earlier expected
The former Maharashtra chief minister succeeds Surjit Singh Barnala.
The mortal remains of the social reformer were consigned to flames at Tatwajnana Vidyapeeth, Ghodbunder in Thane district.
The government on Thursday revised its target of power capacity addition to 90,000 MW in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12), up by 11,423 MW from the earlier estimate of 78,577 MW, in order to meet the growing demand of electricity in the country.
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Saturday sought to defend the joint opposition by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party to introduction of Janlokpal Bill in Delhi Assembly and accused Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal of violating his oath of the chief minister's office.
Speaking on the sidelines of a foundation stone laying ceremony of at Trishundi in Amethi, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday disapproved of Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Chandan Mitra's demand of stripping economist Amartya Sen of the Bharat Ratna and went on to endorse the views of the Nobel laureate against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
One of the major recommendations of the group is that the Planning Authority will allow buildings height till 70 metres, but those above that height would have to be subjected to a Committee of Technical Experts.
The Shiv Sena-BJP combine has accused Sushilkumar Shinde of furnishing wrong information and misleading the legislature.
India faces over 12 per cent peak power shortage despite 7.3 per cent rise in generation, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.
Prudent fiscal measures and mobilising revenue would enable Maharashtra to attain fiscal sustainability by 2006-07, Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said
It will be held in Nanded on Saturday at 11am.
Deputy Chief Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party leader, Chhagan Bhujbal, has retaining the home ministry.
The Power Ministry on Monday said it is against hiving off the LNG terminal from the Dabhol power plant.
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