The Chandrapur Thermal Power Station (CTPS), which was closed down in 1999, will be revived in joint venture within the next two years and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) and a consortium of three private companies in presence of Power Minister Pradyut Bordoloi today.

As Government mulls hiving off Oil and Natural Gas Corp

The North-eastern States might be sitting on a huge hydropower potential, but power companies, both government-owned and independent power producers (IPP), citing serious hurdles, have called for immediate steps to simplify land acquisition and environmental and forest clearances processes.

The Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and the Power Trading Corporation (PTC) of India Limited have formed a joint venture company Barak Power Private Limited (BPPL) to set up a 250MW thermal power plant at Silchar.

GUWAHATI, Dec 20: The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the one of the major player of the country in energy sector which contributes 77 per cent of India

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The powerful Alltudents Union has Assam Students Union has threatened to launch 96hour oil blockade to oppose the proposed selloff of Assam's oil field to private firms by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).

AMGURI, Dec 3

The multilateral lending agency Asian Development Bank (ADB) will grant a loan of USD 200 million to finance Assam

It is a bird sanctuary and the State