A US human rights group is urging the World Bank to condition future loans for a major power project in India on ending abuses directed primarily against people displaced by the project. Human Rights

Bangladesh is set to open the tap at its first privately developed natural-gas field, a flagship project in this impoverished country's attempt to woo foreign investment and fuel rapid economic

The republic of Georgia, where the US is removing enriched uranium from a plant in Tbilisi for reprocessing in Britain, is home to another nuclear site that could be one of the most dangerous in the

Pakistan on Monday rejected a modified proposal by its independent power producers (IPPs) to sell power to India, saying that the tarifff was not acceptable to the government. The Pakistan government

The first 25MW power plant under the buy-back arrangement between Haryana State Electricity Board and private sector units is to be commissioned at Sihi Sikanderpur in Gurgaon district. About 40 such

A secret deal between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair for the UK to reprocess and store 5kg of Georgian nuclear material outraged environmentalists after details were leaked. The decision to airlift the

The power ministry made a presentation to members of Parliament including the leaders of opposition to broadbase the debate on power sector. The presentation covered issues regarding the present

Leading US rights organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has urged World Bank President James Wolfensohn to intervene in a bank-funded project in central India on grounds of human rights violation.

The Hindujas have received the much-awaited state guarnatees for their 1,040 MW Visakhapatnam power project in Andhra Pradesh. According to sources, the guarantee, along with the power purchase

China and the United States signed a contract calling for the installation of two 350 mw generating units at the Yuzhou Power Plant in central China's Henan