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Reliance Power Eyeing 300 MW Solar Capacity

DHURSAR: Reliance Power proposes to take its solar capacity to 300 MW by 2015, with an investment of Rs 6,000 crore. The Anil Ambani group company has set an ambitious target that will help light up over five-lakh households in the country. Mr Anil Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Power, said...

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Jindal Power Advances Tamnar Expansion For Tax Holiday

MUMBAI: Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) has advanced the commissioning date of the first unit (600 Mw) of the first phase (1,200 Mw) of its power plant expansion at Tamnar in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district to March 2013, to take advantage of the 10-year tax holiday it would then enjoy....

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NGT Seeks Replies On Breach Of Its Order On Gujarat Power Project

NEW DELHI: The Union environment ministry and the Gujarat government have been asked by the National Green Tribunal to respond to the allegations that OPG Power Gujarat Pvt Ltd is violating the tribunal’s order to stop work on its 300 MW thermal power plant at Mundra in the state....

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Atomic energy model for defence?

Ever since the Harvard Professor, B. F. Skinner conducted those experiments among workers of General Electric at its plant in Hawthorne back in the 40s, Behavioural Science became all of the rage in management theory. It was no surprise then that psychologists soon became hot property within the community...

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Energy Security: N-Power For All

Need to enhance generation capacity and thorium tech Tapping new energy sources is not a choice but is imperative, given the country’s heavy reliance on fuel imports. As the demand-supply gap in energy availability is widening India has to plan for harnessing nuclear energy on a bigger scale. The...

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‘Solar Power Is A Bit Dicey; It Depends On The Regulatory Environment'

MUMBAI: Tata Power has commissioned the first ultra mega power project in the country. The first of the five 800 MW of the Mundra 4,000-MW power plant, based on imported coal, is operational. However, its profitability is expected to take a hit with Indonesia directing that all coal shipped...

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MoEF Working On Online System For Faster Coal Project Clearances

NEW DELHI: With state-owned Coal India (CIL) facing problems in enhancing production, the Environment Ministry is working on a mechanism for introducing online system for granting faster clearances to coal projects. The development follows Prime Minister’s Office directing CIL to sign fuel supply agreement with the power producers with...

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Luthra & Luthra To Fight TCI's Case Against Coal India

MUMBAI | NEW DELHI: The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI) has appointed law firm Luthra & Luthra to fight its case against state-owned coal monopoly Coal India and its directors for alleged breach of corporate governance practices. The UK-based hedge fund said government’s decision to ask Coal India to sign...

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ABP to buy out STAR from TV news venture

MUMBAI: Media giant Ananda Bazaar Patrika (ABP) is parting ways with the Rupert Murdoch-controlled STAR Group, after months of discontent over editorial and other strategic issues. The two have been operating the news television venture Media Content & Communications Services India Pvt Ltd (MCCS) over the past nine years....

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Shares edge up, led by new liquidity hopes

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian shares edged higher in the first day of the quarter, as banking stocks rose for a second session in a row on expectations that the cash crunch that had constrained the sector in March will ease in the new fiscal year thanks to government spending...

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