The subsidy scheme to encourage the use of photovoltaic systems for household lighting is being liberalised. Instead of routing the subsidy through the state government agencies who buy the devices

A New York based energy company, armed with rights to a patent on a gasoline substitute made mostly out of trash, is now laying the groundwork to launch the fuel commercially in the United States.

The Health Ministry is negotiating with the World Bank for a $100 million term loan for setting up a chain of quality testing laboratories in the country. The laboratories would be authorised to

The World Bank is set to launch a new financial instrument with a $600 million adaptable loan to restructre Haryana's power sector. The loan is designed to lengthen the Bank's lending periods and cut

More than 50 per cent of the liquid fuel based units of independent power producers (IPPs) have signed fuel supply agreements (FSA) with public sector oil

India has called a high level meeting of South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (Saarc) nation representatives to evolve a common stand on the issue of cross border movement of hazardous

Suicides by farmers due to cotton crop failure in Andhra Pradesh continued unabated even as the state government announced a relief package for farmers and promised to evolve a long term measures to

The Tamil Nadu State Electricity Board (TNEB) is re-opening all power purchase agreements (PPAs) signed with power producers in order to allow a larger number of projects access to safeguards

The Karnataka High Court stayed the setting up of a new internatonal airport project, which was to come up near Mangalore. The ruling was passed on a writ petition filed by an environmental support

A medical study indicates that ethnic Indians are far more susceptible to heart disease than other ethnic groups. The British study by Dr. Colin Bary, a consultant cardiologist from Manchestor, found