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Gandhinagar: Gujarat government is in talks with Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) to fund one of its most ambitious projects to promote solar energy

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Ahmedabad: The state government has proposed a special utility vehicle (SUV) for power distribution in Dholera SIR.

Bharuch: The leaking oil from a breach in an Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) pipeline at Adol village of Ankleshwar taluka in Bharuch district on Thursday morning caught fire, but there were no casualties, police said.
ONGC fire tenders reached the spot and brought the fire, which was major, under control after two hours.
The fire damaged standing crops in an area of 10 acres, sourc

Jaipur: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) on Wednesday cleared the proposed Rajasthan Atomic Power Station Units 7 and 8.
The two new reactors are to come up at the Rawatbhata Nuclear Power site in Rajasthan where six reactors of 1,180 MW are functioning, Nuclear Power Corp of India executive director Sudhinder Thakur said.

Vadodara: Engineering major ABB will invest Rs 200 crore by the end of 2011 towards setting up new units and expansion of its existing facilities at Maneja.

Ahmedabad: Central indirect taxes on petroleum products will remain unchanged in near future, said Union minister of state for petroleum and natural gas, Jitin Prasad while replying to a question raised by Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani.
Prasad, while answering questions related to high price of petroleum products due to high rates of taxes levied by central as well as state governments, sta

COMPLAINTS OF COAL DUST

Vapi: A show cause was issued to Western Railway authorities for environmental pollution at railway goods yard here.

Gandhinagar: The Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) bagged the national award for outstanding achievement in management of power by supplying uninterrupted power to all 18,000 villages under Jyotigram Yojna.

Gandhinagar: The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) on Thursday announced setting up of 1,320 MW of coal-based power plant at a surplus piece of land next to the Gujarat State Electricity Corporation (GSEC)-run power plant at Dhuvaran.

Gandhinagar: Gujarat is set to get two more power plants. Ancient town of Vadnagar in Mehsana, which happens to be the native place of Chief Minister Narendra Modi, and industrial hub of Savli in Vadodara will have one power plant each with a capacity of 1,000MW.