Union power minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam will unveil on Sunday a major policy package designed to speed up investment in the power sector.

The energy scenario in Bihar seems to be going from bad to worse. Since indepandence, the installed capacity in India has increased manifold (from 1,362 mw in 1947 to 90,000 mw today) its per capita

The Clinton admjnistration has forecast that developing Asian countries, led by India and China, will account for about half of the world's increase in energy consumption in the next two decades,

A controversial shipment of nuclear material from Georgia arrived in Britain and was moved to a Scottish nuclear plant. The nuclear material, the subject of a secret deal by the United States,

Plans to build a natural-gas pipeline between Russia's Sakhalin Island and Japan's mainland could take giant strides forward amid continuing pressure on Japanese power generators to shift from coal

The Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) has successfylly negotiated the second World Bank loan worth $450 million to strengthen inter-regional transmisison links and upgrade its data-base

The Prime Minister, Mr A B Vajpayee, today called for greater co-ordination amongst ministries to clear the existing bottlenecks in the power sector and has urged the finance and power ministry to

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