Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd is planning to invest Rs 10,000-12,000 crore in setting up power projects. It is also planning to foray into renewable energy, by setting up wind energy farms and solar units.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that the government has offered to rebuild Dustgeer Sahib, the Sufi shrine that was destroyed in a massive fire this week. He was addressing the media at Shastri Bhavan in New Delhi in his monthly meeting.
The ruling National Conference President and Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah on Thursday asked his party spokesman Dr Mustaffa Kamal "to exercise restraint and follow the party policy line on all issues, particularly those pertaining to the policies of the coalition government, relationship with the Congress party, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and the role of the army".
On the telecom sector, he demanded auctioning of more spectrum.
Despite its aggressive renewable energy policies, Europe's economy is getting more not less dependent on oil. Cars are the reason.
Annual event being organised by FICCI focuses on the investment potential offered by India's infrastructure sector.
Public sector blue chip firm National Aluminium Company, the largest manufacturer and exporter of aluminium in the country, proposes to make a foray into wind power generation.
Using energy more efficiently can reduce our energy needs by one fifth; it is a strategy we must pursue even as we promote renewables, says Kirit Parikh.
In a bid to strengthen their bilateral economic ties, India and Indonesia plan to explore opportunities for co-operation in oil and gas, and railway sectors, among other areas.
Three different invitations were sent out for the wedding and the receptions with top-run guests being sent a large red box that contained an intricate chest incorporating a mini silver temple featuring gold idols of various Hindu deities, including Lord Ganesh, Radha-Krishna, and Goddess Durga.
Funded by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, the 100x2 KW power plant was jointly set up by the village councils of Chizami village and nearby Sumi village with technical assistance from Nagaland Renewable Energy Development Agency.
Adani Group on Thursday said it has commissioned the country's largest 40 MW solar power project at Kutch district in Gujarat.
America will have to shell out $4.4 trillion if it needs clean energy, according to a plan drawn by Google Inc that calls for a big push in wind, solar and geothermal power to replace fossil fuels.
Adani Enterprises, the flagship company of the Adani group, on Monday said it had entered into a 50:50 joint venture (JV) with EdgeConnex, a leading global data centre operator, to develop and operate data centres across India. The idea behind the JV, AdaniConneX, was to leverage the two partners' complementary expertise and capabilities, it said. In addition to full-scale data centres, AdaniConneX will also develop a portfolio of Edge data centres strategically located across the country to address the need for more proximate capacity.
India ranks 130th out of 189 economies on the World Bank's Doing Business report.
Chief Ministers of a number of states including those from Gujarat, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal on Saturday skipped the meeting of the prime minister-led National Integration Council in New Delhi.
Bombay House, the headquarters of the Tata group in Mumbai, has become India's first heritage building to get "gold" rating by Indian Green Building Council.
The EU's assistance comes as part of its 'strategic partnership' with India and will be made available by the European Investment Bank to ICICI Bank in the first-ever cooperation between the two financial institutions.
After the talks, it was also announced that India has decided to extend e-Visa facility to Saudi nationals.
'There has definitely been a breakthrough in the nuclear logjam. It is good to see nuclear energy back on the rails,' says Dr Anil Kakodkar, former chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested former ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar in connection with alleged cheating and irregularities in loans sanctioned by the bank to the group in 2012, officials said on Friday. The CBI had booked Chanda Kochhar, her husband and Venugopal Dhoot of Videocon Group, along with companies Nupower Renewables, Supreme Energy, Videocon International Electronics Ltd and Videocon Industries Limited, as accused in the FIR registered under IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, they said.
GAIL India plans to consolidate presence in petrochemicals and renewable energy, allocate a percentage of annual capital expenditure for exploration and production (E&P), pick up equity in upstream LNG projects abroad, and pursue investments in shale gas projects in and outside.
In a statement, the ministry of defence said the official winners were picked by panels of judges.
Attacking the media, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah said it plays "tricks" so that "one fellow should go down and second fellow should come up".
National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Thursday met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and the ruling partners are understood to have discussed the situation arising out of the continued unrest in Jammu and Kashmir. In Srinagar, his son and chief minister, Omar Abdullah, fuelled speculation by meeting the state governor N N Vohra
An exercise to rationalise coal linkages which will optimize transport of coal and reduce cost of power is underway.
Solar power is expensive. The cost of generating one unit of solar power is Rs 15 while it costs just Rs 1.19 per unit from coal (at Sasan ultra mega power plant). The Centre, in partnership with state governments, will give incentives worth up to Rs 12 per unit for generating power from solar energy.
India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy proposes to develop 60 cities as solar cities.
The cartoon, published in The Australian, shows turban-wearing men breaking the UN-sent solar panels and saying, 'They're no good. We can't eat them'.
The Cabinet is likely to decide on final price of ethanol for blending it with petrol within this month, Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah said on Monday.
The decision by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is expected to reduce CO2 emissions and create jobs in both the US and India.
Wind power: Zero emission its strength, low plant load factor a weakness, say experts.
CIIE Initiatives, a non-profit company set up by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad's incubator-cum-angel investor, the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), is in talks with the central government and private organisations for establishing a renewable energy (RE) fund.
Indian-American professor, Manoranjan 'Mano' Misra, at University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), has been honoured by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents for his research works.
While the corporate sector has benefited from massive capital expenditure, leading to sky-rocketing stock prices, investors would do well to keep an eye on the macroeconomic picture and government finances, not just corporate profits, for signs of trouble, alerts Debashis Basu.
This is essential to promote investment in essential infrastructure such as Power. Any additional burden will only pass on to the end consumer.
Greenwashing is making misleading or false environment-friendly claims about a product. Consumers in India currently do not have any way of telling whether a claim is authentic or greenwashing. And one never hears of action against any company for making false claims of being environment-friendly.
Union Minister Farooq Abdullah on Friday said Article 370 has "eroded" and Jammu and Kashmir should be given autonomy within framework of the Indian constitution.
Indian-American Congressional candidate Dr Ami Bera on Tuesday became the sole Democratic to represent California's 3rd Congressional Distict, following the withdrawal of candidature by Bill Slaton from the Democratic primary.
It took a good 18 years for Luminous Power Technologies to make its first Rs. 100 crore.
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