The project financing for the 300mw Dharwar power project has been finalised with the Bangalore-based Khodays group signing an agreement with Chalais Holdings, Bescorp Ind Bhd of Malaysia for equity

The plan outlay for the environment and forests ministry has been raised by Rs 214 crore in the interim budget for 1998-99 compared with the level in the revised budget for the current year, 1997-98.

The BJP-led government yesterday promised to achieve a high economic growth of seven to eight per cent by continuing reforms through a national consensus and earmarking 60 per cent of Plan funds for

The Sahara group gave an undertaking before the Supreme Court yesterday that it would not raise any building or cut trees or bushes in the 4,000 acres planned to be developed as a private hill

The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has framed a set of guidelines to promote "scientific management" of municipal solid wastes (MSWs). The guidelines have been circulated to the state

Minister of state for environment and forest Babulal Marandi yesterday said the government will focus on preserving indigenous species and promoting their growth. He called on the 'swadeshi tree

The ONGC has launched an all out effort to subdue the Gandhar well where the leakage of gas, which started on Sunday, is

Though Gere had wanted to make a donation to the AIDS cause and the NGO, The Art of Giving, which Ramani and company plan to start, it has been politely turned down. The events to be held in Delhi

The Ministry of Environment and Forests is considering a proposal to make coal based industries and hydroelectric projects pay for afforestation and protection of catchment and the command areas. The

A senate panel has finally managed to nibble around the edges of a tobacco bill, but its meeting was chock full of shouting, name-calling and gavel-banging, mostly among Republicans. Then, when the