Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Obliquely referring to the India-US civilian nuclear deal, which has put the Manmohan Singh government in peril, Indian ambassador Ronen Sen has defended India's efforts to augment power generation and criticised those who oppose the use of technology. Asserting that technology is a tool for empowerment and emancipation, he said: …
Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow July 21, 2008, 0:48 IST The curtain has finally come down on Reliance Power's (R-Power)bid to set up two power plants with a collective capacity of 3,300 mw in Uttar Pradesh with the Energy Task Force (ETF) concurred with the evaluation committee's report, which said …
Rakteem Katakey / New Delhi July 18, 2008, 0:24 IST The top five decision makers in the oil ministry collectively have around 20 months of experience in the sector even as India, the third largest consumer of oil in Asia, struggles to keep pace with oil prices, which have doubled …
Aalgae, the saviour? AFP OSLO AS THE world mulls the question of how to satisfy a seemingly endless appetite for energy and still slash greenhouse gas emissions, researchers have stumbled upon an unexpected hero: algae. So-called micro algae hold enormous potential when it comes to reining in both climate change, …
Sushmi Dey & Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI WHILE the Indo-US nuclear deal may be waiting in the wings, the government has proposed yet another initiative to boost the growth of alternative energy sources in the country. It is planning to enact a new Renewable Energy Law that would stipulate mandatory …
With the cost of aviation turbine fuel escalating sharply, India's domestic airlines are lurching from one crisis to another. Hardly a week passes without one airline or another marking up its fares or reporting heavy losses. Already, some of them have pruned the number of their flights and have hinted …
Madan Sabnavis: Does core inflation really matter? Madan Sabnavis / New Delhi July 17, 2008, 0:13 IST Economists argue the RBI's actions would be different if it targeted 'core' inflation - but using this wouldn't really change things argues. A concept that has become pertinent today is core inflation. Central …
New Delhi, July 16: Union commerce minister, Mr Kamal Nath, said on Wednesday that his ministry has received no proposal to strip Reliance Industries Jamnagar refinery of its export oriented unit (EOU) status. Mr Nath also said that India could walk out of the WTO ministerial meet in Geneva next …
I fully endorse the views in the editorial, "Tax luxury'. Hiking the excise duty on big cars, multiutility vehicles and sports cars was overdue. Several other initiatives are required to tide over the oil crisis. Petroleum companies can absorb the oil shock by tightening their belts. There is no justification …
Oil prices tumbled Tuesday as US stocks sold off amid worries about America's economic health. Prices dropped more than $10 a barrel from their highest point of the day. At midday, light, sweet crude fell $6.27 to $138.91 in an extremely volatile session. The turnaround may not signal a lasting …
There is no alternative but to free the oil sector from price management and create a vibrant competitive market. This entails removal of entry barriers, third-party access to key oil infrastructure such as ports and terminals, says T N R Rao. IF ONE thought that the credit crunch triggered by …
Sujay Mehdudia Ministry cites losses on account of under-recoveries NEW DELHI: Indicating a "crunch' in supply of petrol and diesel, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry has asked the oil marketing companies (OMCs) to put on hold their plans to open new retail outlets. Citing losses on account of under-recoveries …
Govt Worried Ambani Feud May Affect Vote, Amar Cries Poaching Diwakar | TNN New Delhi: Mukesh Ambani, the head of India's biggest corporate house Reliance, met PM Manmohan Singh and other important government functionaries on Monday amid rising government anxiety about the raging Ambani feud adversely affecting the government's prospects …
Another disputed dam: After Baglihar, Kishanganga dam has embroiled India and Pakistan in a water dispute. Union minister of state for power Jairam Ramesh recently asked the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) to expedite work on the 330-mw Kishanganga power project in Jammu and Kashmir, citing that Pakistan is also …
addiction only leads to more demand. A classical case is the record rise in the crude oil prices in the last one year. At us $140, it even pinches the pockets of developed countries like the us. The bad news does not end here. As know-alls believe, oil may also …
The draft coal policy with options for open pit and underground mining is being sent this week to the cabinet division for the government approval. "We've completed all necessary procedures. Now the draft will be sent to the cabinet division anytime this week for approval, Chief Adviser's Special Assistant for …
NEW DELHI: Spice Energy will import LNG from Indonesia at its proposed $400 million import terminal in Haldia while its unit Cals Refineries has signed a deal with oil major BP plc to source up to five million tonnes a year of crude oil for its $1.1 billion refinery in …
Echoes assurances given by PM to House; clears right to strategic fuel reserve New Delhi, July 10: Two days after it lost the support of its key allies from the Left on this very issue, the government today finally took the lid off the safeguards agreement it's negotiating with the …
NEW DELHI: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora on Wednesday said the Indo-U.S. nuclear civil cooperation deal was very much in the interest of the country as rising energy prices of fossil fuel had made it mandatory to tap other sources of energy in order to meet the …
