Overlooking protests from its political opponenets the Bangladesh government has commissioned a study of the technical and economic aspects of importing electricity from India. The excercise funded

There is potential danger of land sinking in the Krishna-Godavari basin that is being extensively exploited for oil and gas, a geologist has

There is potential danger of land sinking in the Krishna-Godavari basin that is being extensively exploited for oil and gas, a geologist has warned. Subsidence of the region even by a small amount

Haryana will be the second state in the country after Orissa to bring in power sector reforms. The state is all set to enforce the Haryana Electricity Reform Act (HERA) from June 1, 1998. Haryana

The power ministry has mooted a proposal to hawk non-urban distribution networks of state electricity boards to rural cooperatives. These cooperatives will also be provided the freedom to generate

Chairman and managing director of Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) Y S R Prasad, while inaugurating an international conference on "fire protection in N-installations" organised by the Department of

The Gujarat Government will continue with subsidies in the power sector to various consumer sections, despite the Asian Development Bank instructions not to do so if the Government was to avail its

The Environmental Review Committee (ERC) under the Ministry of Surface Transport has given "in-principle clearance" for a proposal to construct a second captive oil jetty for the import of crude oil

Shell and Mobil are expected to lodge a formal request this week to postpone for six months the full development of Peru's vast hydrocarbons reserves in the south-western jungle area of Camisea.

The Delhi Vidyut Board has decided to install "dry transformer" instead of oil transformers in cinema halls and high-rise buildings where open spaces were not available. High-rise buildings in Nehru