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AHMEDABAD: The government of Gujarat has identified and agreed to allocate 500 hectare of land for second 4,000 mw ultra mega power project (UMPP) in the state. After exploring Jamnagar and Kutch districts in past couple of years, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) zeroed in on Lodhva village in...
PATNA: Bihar is likely to face acute power crisis during this summer. NTPC’s power plant (200 MW) at Farakka (unit-3) has already been shut down for annual maintenance since April 1 for a period of 35 days. NTPC’s another plant (500 MW) at Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district is non-functional...
NEW DELHI: State-run Power Finance Corporation (PFC) said it is in talks with GVK and Videocon to fund their coal mine acquisitions overseas on the condition that they bring a majority portion of the coal back to India. PFC Chairman and Managing Director Satnam Singh also said the company...
MUMBAI: Keen to set up 9,900 MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, which is facing opposition from various quarters, the Maharashtra Government today said the proposed project site in Konkan region is the “safest” in the world. “A day will come when coal (reserves) will end. Therefore, alternate sources...
NEW DELHI: Venture capital (VC) funding in the solar sector was off to a slow start globally in the first quarter of this year. VC funding for the quarter stood at $329 million, from 34 deals, the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2010, says a report on funding...
NEW DELHI: Areva Solar, France-based Areva’s subsidiary, has bagged a contract by Reliance Power to build Asia’s largest concentrated solar power installation. “Areva Solar, an Areva subsidiary, has been awarded a contract by the Indian group Reliance Power Limited to build a 250 megawatt (MW) concentrated solar power (CSP)...
RANCHI: The Justice MB Shah Committee, appointed by the Central Government to probe illegal mining of iron ore and manganese across the country met with a poor response in Ranchi, on the first day of the two-day public hearing. Jharkhand, accounts for a fourth of the country’s iron ore....
KOLKATA:West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to flag off production at the Trans Damodar Coal Mining Project on Friday at Bajora in the state’s Bankura district. This is the first project under public private partnership (PPP) model involving the government of West Bengal for commercial mining of...
HYDERABAD: APGenco has begun efforts to secure coal requirements for its expansion projects from two blocks awarded to the State-owned AP Mineral Development Corporation in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. In addition, it is banking on increased supply from Coal India Ltd and bridging the gap through imported coal. The...
WASHINGTON: After a gap of nearly six years, the US and India would hold their first political-military dialogue in New Delhi next week during which the two countries are expected to discuss a wide range of bilateral issues. Assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs Andrew J Shapiro is...
Against the backdrop of killing of 2 Indian fishermen by armed guards of an Italian merchant vessel in February 2012, the Indian Navy is seeking demarcation of piracy-infested waters and setting up Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for maritime security. This will avoid any future incidents like the one in...
NEW DELHI: A money laundering case has been registered against Vectra chief Ravinder Rishi and his firms by the Enforcement Directorate to probe alleged generation of illegal funds in the defence deal between Tatra Sipox UK and defence PSU BEML. The agency has registered the case after gathering initial...
NEW DELHI: Giving a major push to the normalisation process, India and China today decided to resume dialogue on disarmament and non-proliferation and shortly kickstart their maritime dialogue between them. The two countries had last discussed the disarmament and non-proliferation issue in 2003. External Affairs Minister S M Krishna...
NEW DELHI: Army has initiated the process of acquiring new gun systems to take on enemy aircraft and missiles, a month after its chief General VK Singh raised the issue of obsolescence of air defence systems in a letter to the Prime Minister. “The Army is planning to procure...
North Korea said its much hyped long-range rocket launch failed on Friday, in a very rare and embarrassing public admission of failure by the hermit state and a blow for its new young leader who faces international outrage over the attempt. The isolated North, using the launch to celebrate...
CHANDIGARH: The Armed Forces Tribunal today reserved its orders in the case of Maj Gen TS Handa, who has alleged a bias on the part of Gen VK Singh, first in his capacity as the Eastern Army Commander and later as Army Chief. He said the “bias” led to...
MUMBAI: The RBI may cut the repo rate by 25 basis points as economic recovery continues to remain fragile, say economists. With factory output growth, as measured by the index of industrial production (IIP), in the April 2011-February 2012 period slowing to 3.5 per cent, against 8.1 per cent...
NEW DELHI: Even as Indian security agencies have expressed concern over the growing influence of Chinese firms in India’s infrastructure projects including power, one of the country’s biggest infrastructure companies IL&FS has inked a $2.4-billion contract with Power Construction Corporation of China. The deal includes the construction of the...