Hyderabad, Oct. 19: The pollution level in the city peaked on the Diwali night (Saturday) with different parts of Hyderabad and Secunderabad recording as much as 39 per cent more pollutants than on ordinary days.

B Krishna Mohan / Hyderabad October 20, 2009, 0:55 IST

Hyderabad, Oct. 18: The state government has given administrative sanction for the Rs 2,700-crore 600-MW thermal power project to be developed by Singareni Collieries (SCCL), a state-owned undertaking.

This is the first time that the SCCL is developing its own power plant.

Oct. 13: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, said the gas expected from the four K-G Basin blocks would be fully utilised for the industrial and domestic needs of the state.

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HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh achieved a significant breakthrough in its quest to have a pie in the Krishna-Godavari Basin when it successfully won the bid for oil and gas blocks through the eighth round of the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) in the auction held in New Delhi on Monday.

In case of accident, US does not want firms to pay it all nuclear reactor suppliers will not be liable if there is an accident in an atomic power plant in India. The onus of the accident would be on the operator, only partly. The rest would be on the Indian government. This, if India clears the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill. The bill, though, has not been put up for public discussions in

THE Andhra Pradesh government is set to tieup with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC)

Aug. 26: The RIL surprised many by revealing last week that it had the capacity to produce 40 million metric standard cubic meters of gas per day from the Krishna-Godavari basin, but is only producing 37 to 38 mmscd now.
As such, the empowered group of ministers has allocated the 40 mmscd of gas to various sectors.

Aug 26: The allocation of gas from the Krishna-Godavari basin is slowly turning out to be an emotive issue for political parties and the people of the state.
A Congress leader from Nalgonda district, Mr G. Narayan Reddy, had first raised the demand that the state should be given the right to determine the allocation of gas.

Raghuvir Badrinath / Bangalore August 21, 2009, 0:16 IST

GMR Infrastructure, the Rs 4,500-crore Bangalore-based infrastructure developer with a focus on power generation, airports development, highways and urban infrastructure, is understood to be initiating plans for an 800-Mw coal-fired power plant on the eastern coast of India.