The steep rise in energy prices has created an expectation in some quarters that interest rates will be raised, possibly quite soon, in the US and Europe. This belief, whether or not it turns out to

Thieves and vandals have placed Nigeria's electricity supply network in danger of total collapse, Jerry Gana, the government spokesman said. Whole cities and towns including Lagos, the commercial

If the fictional Don Quixote were alive today, he would be buying shares in windmills instead of tilting at them. The combination of escalating oil prices and increasing concern about the

The geological affinity between Africa and Asia - which formed a common land mass some 200 million years ago - was reflected at the three-day 5th international conference and exhibition on 'petroleum

A few North-Eastern States will not only be power surplus States soon but also be capable of supplying power to neighbouring Bangladesh and other parts of the

Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant was shut down early Monday after an ice-covered power line broke and caused an electricity shortage, officials said.Reactor No. 3, the plant's only working

The Aditya Birla group today announced a 450 MW green power project to be set up at Mangalore in Karnataka, at an estimated cost of Rs, 2,300

Trial in the 'Ramar Pillai-herbal fuel case' will begin in the court of the X Metropolitan Magistrate, Egmore, on January 17. The Magistrate, Mr. R. Krishnamurthy, fixed the date for the trial after

Been there, doing that : Higher fuel prices, but in many industries, saving is business as usual.In 1970, it took 24 units of energy to make $1 worth of industrial goods in US. Now it takes only 16

Decks have been cleared for the first stage of the Aditya Birla grop's Rs 2,300 crore 'green power project' at Mangalore.The project to generate 450 MW in the first phase will be based on vis broken