CAG report : The US-based power company Enron's 2,184 MW power plant in Maharashtra is again in the thick of a controversy with the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) confirming what critics of

Maharasthra's plan to sell a part of Chandrapur thermal power unit of Maharastra State Electricity Board (MSEB) has been shot down by various workers unions in the board. The recently-commissioned

Indian majors : Samtel, Microtek and Vinitron, the three largest manufactures of computer monitors in India, have charged Korean companies with dumping outdated and health hazardous monitors. The

US department of Navy and the Maritime Administration (USMA) will continue sending ships to the ship breaking units in India, bringing mixed news for 35,000 workers at Alang, Gujarat. The US agencies

Leading US rights organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has urged World Bank President James Wolfensohn to intervene in a bank-funded project in central India on grounds of human rights violation.

The Hindujas have received the much-awaited state guarnatees for their 1,040 MW Visakhapatnam power project in Andhra Pradesh. According to sources, the guarantee, along with the power purchase

The Madhya Pradesh government's rejection of the conditional offers made by De Beers and RTZ-CRA for undertaking exploitation and exploitation of diamond reserves in the state has brought the

Increased use of temporary methods to stop pregnancy may lower fertility rates significantly to 2.3 children per woman, a National Family Health Survey (NFHS) report on alternative contraceptive

The National Fish Workers Forum has undertaken a massive exercise to prepare a data base on violations of the coastal regulatory zone notification. A series of workshops are to be held in the country

Te state-owned Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporaion Ltd (Tidco) plans to add 1,000 mw power generating capacity in Tamilnadu using orimulsion as the fuel. Orimulsion is a natural bitumen