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 …
The government on Thursday said it will not raise the notified prices of coal this year, a decision that will help steel and power firms that are battling high input costs. "There is no plan to increase the notified prices of coal this year. Instead, we will enhance our production …
The same old "package' of reduction in taxes and duties, issuance of oil bonds and higher subsidy sharing by the upstream oil companies will not work this time around. Only increasing the retail prices of petroleum products will. Will the Government go the extra mile? Raghuvir Srinivasan Advertisement The Government's …
Faced with a herculean task of ramping up its installed power capacity to keep pace with huge investment inflows, the Gujarat government is planning to invite private companies to invest in five new power projects worth Rs 20,000 crore during the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit (VGGIS). The MoUs …
Buskirk (New York): A few years ago, Kathleen Breault was just another suburban grandma, driving countless hours every week, stopping for lunch at McDonald's, buying clothes at the mall, watching TV in the evenings. That was before Breault heard an author talk about the bleak future of the world's oil …
What are oil reserves? Technically a country's oil reserves are the estimated quantity of crude oil that can be produced under the present operating conditions. Because of the different reservoir characteristics and limitations in petroleum production technology, only a fraction of the total stored oil can be extracted for economic …
Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan on Sunday commissioned the 25 MW Neriamangalam Extension Scheme (NES). Dedicating it to the nation, the Chief Minister stressed the need to focus on ensuring energy security for the State. Energy security was as important for the State as its food security, he said. The government …
India's several interlinked energy related challenges can only be met by long-term planning and coordinated action by various stakeholders. By highlighting the Planning Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report, this article proposes the creation of a government-supported statutory energy modelling institution - the Bureau of Energy Information and Analysis - that …
We have heard all about Al Gore's inconvenient truths on climate change. Now comes an extremely convenient truth from his German counterpart. Social Democrat MP Hermann Scheer, who has been dubbed more revolutionary than Greenpeace, says the great unspoken truth is how painless it will be to convert the world …
This is the conclusion of a two-part series on the global oil scenario and ONGC. The first part was published on May 6 In India, oil production grew by 6% in the last five years up to 2006-07. It was during the second half of 1994-95 that ONGC's medium-sized fields
Computer support provider iYogi uses proprietary technology, iMantra, to offer remote services from its office in Gurgaon to small and individual computer users globally. The company employs 400 people and expects its annual revenue to go up from $15 million to $100 million in two years. The company is now …
With the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear deal hanging in the balance, the government is framing a policy for importing power from neighbouring countries including Pakistan to overcome the peaking shortage, say highly placed sources. Work on the policy is being expedited. For, although India considers Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar a natural …
Russia, India, China and Brazil on Friday vowed to turn their four-way group into a powerful instrument for changing the world. At their first stand-alone meeting here, the Foreign Ministers institutionalised BRIC, agreeing to hold regular meetings at the level of Foreign Ministers. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee hailed BRIC …
The debate on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline has generated more heat than light. There has been a wide chasm between rhetoric and reality, with little informed public debate. It is indisputable that the booming but energy-starved Indian economy needs to tap every possible source of power that is economically …
Faced with surging crude oil prices in the international markets and massive under-recoveries being incurred by the oil marketing companies (OMCs), the government has decided to compensate them by issuing oil bonds to the extent of 50 per cent against incurring under-recoveries during 2007-08 on sale of petrol, diesel, kerosene …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to announce a fairly large grant to Bhutan when he travels there on Friday on a two-day visit, which is aimed at further consolidation of the bilateral energy cooperation. The Prime Minister will hold wide-ranging talks with his Bhutanese counterpart Jigme Y. Thinley on …
Keen to claim credit for arresting carbon emissions into the atmosphere, the Delhi Government's Power Department has taken the lead in promoting energy conservation by preparing a road map that will direct the power distribution companies to procure power generated from renewable sources. Regulatory commission According to the Electricity Act, …
The global food crisis is inspiring a broad new coalition on Capitol Hill seeking to change US policies on ethanol production. Interests ranging from US food manufacturers and livestock producers to environmentalists, humanitarian aid agencies and consumer groups are calling for Congress to rethink so-called "food to fuel" mandates that …
With the under-recoveries on motor fuel "threatening to go out of control' and international crude prices showing no sign of receding, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to convene a meeting of the Petroleum and Natural Gas and Finance Ministries to sort out the "dispute' pertaining to issuance of enhanced …
Rising global crude oil prices could slow down the country's economic growth in 2008-09 to between 8-8.5 per cent, the Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, Dr C. Rangarajan, has said. This estimate is lower than the 8.5 per cent growth projected for 2008-09 by the Advisory Council …
