Tata Power's Maithon project attains financial closure

Mumbai-based Tata Power Co Ltd (tpc), India's largest private power utility, edged closer to its revi-talisation targets last fortnight by effecting the financial closure of its joint venture, Maithon Power Ltd.

The time has come for the government to get off the oil industry's back

The runaway rise in international oil prices, which recently crossed $100 a barrel, has put Indian oil companies in a spot. Even as their costs rise, they are unable to raise prices to get the resources needed for acquiring oil assets or otherwise build the infrastructure needed for oil security.

Even as the Union government is struggling to boost the country's agriculture extension system, pesticide and crop chemical manufacturers have joined hands with rural ngos to promote safe and judicious usage of pesticides among the farmers.

The US economic crisis takes the centre-stage at WEF

BHEL is planning to make equipment required for wind power generation

A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. The anti-tobacco lobby is learning to use that dictum to its advantage. Gory and graphic pictures of cancer stricken patients occupy 30 per cent of the surface of a cigarette packet in countries like Thailand, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia. As a result, say anti-tobacco lobbyists, tobacco use has fallen.

SEZs the world over have proved to be a boon, notes a KPMG India study: SEZs - a window of business opportunities

With property prices skyrocketing across the country, there are suspicions that the government is covertly leveraging its sez policy to benefit realtors

Lalit B. Singhal, director general of the Lcommerce ministry's Export Promo

The government continues its patchwork repair of SEZ policy, as opposition mounts
ew issues in India have inflamed passions as have the Special Economic Zones (sezs), the sprawling enclaves conceived to function under special laws, beyond the pale of the normal law of the land.