The recent order of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), allowing Adani Power to increase price of power from its imported-coal-based project at Mundra in Gujarat, is likely to put

Acting on a public interest litigation (PIL), the Gujarat High Court Wednesday directed the state government to stop illegal mining activities in the Balaram-Ambaji Wildlife Sanctuary in Banaskanth

Regulator sets up panel to work out compensatory rates in a month; stocks of all power firms light up

In a landmark order, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), the country’s power sector regulator, has allowed a “compensatory tariff” for Adani Power’s imported-coal-based power project in Mundra, Gujarat. The Gautam Adani-led company had sought a revision in tariff, citing increased capital cost, since a recent change in regulation governing coal imports from Indonesia had made the fuel dearer.

Homegrown Amul brand is all set to touch the US $ 4 billion mark.

Gandhinagar: India’s major roads may double up as solar highways, if an innovative proposal by some scientists gets the government's approval. The proposal is the brainchild of scientists at the Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute (GERMI) in the state capital.
In a paper just published in the International Journal of Energy, Environment and Engineering, the scientists say highways can be used to generate solar power, if a roof of solar panels was laid over them, across the length of the roads.

10% Lower Requirements For Buildings Beside BRTS, Metro Routes

Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (Auda) has relaxed parking requirements for commercial buildings along transit corridors of the city by 10%. Principally, these are along the BRTS and metro corridors. Auda claims that it would boost the commercial and corporate offices coming up along the corridors. Developers along the corridor also get the maximum permissible FSI — 4.

The company finds hoards of buyers willing to pay a rate equivalent to what India pays to Qatar for importing LNG

After Reliance Industries Ltd, GSPC, the firm floated by Narendra Modi government, plans to sell natural gas from its KG basin fields at imported LNG rate of $14.2 per mmBtu. In a nearly month-long, elaborate market price discovery exercise, Gujarat State Petroleum Corp (GSPC) found hoards of buyers willing to pay a rate equivalent to what India pays to Qatar for importing gas in its liquid form (LNG).

AHMEDABAD: Around 4.30pm on October 30, 2009, a press conference was being addressed by top industrialists and bureaucrats who had returned with chief minister Narendra Modi from Russia.

The press conference had just ended when this journalist got an SMS stating that Modi had been detected with swine flu. Apparently, the blood sample was broken into two and sent to Civil Hospitals in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. Both tests were positive but hardly anyone knew this was Modi's blood — the test-tubes were marked 'Rameshbhai'.

As many as 70 people fell ill after drinking contaminated water supplied to their houses by the local body of Talala village here, officials said.

New Delhi: Months after stopping Adani Group from setting up an 1,840-hectare special economic zone (SEZ) in Mundra, the commerce department is set to re-notify the enclave and let the edible oils-to-electricity conglomerate make it contiguous with an existing 6,500 hectare zone.

Sources told TOI that the proposal for re-notification has received the bureaucratic green light and is awaiting a final go ahead from commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma. In the first stage, the plan is to let Adani set up the SEZ. Subsequently, the group will seek “de-notification” of a part of the zone for which approval is in place and then the two would be made contiguous.