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

Opposition to the plan of setting up a 170-MW naptha-based power plant along the banks of the Gurupura river near the New Mangalore port is slowly beginning to mount with the Dakshina Kannada

US power giant Enron Corp has withdrawn its application for a hydropower project in Nepal which was to have involved up to $6.0 billion, a senior governemnt official said on

Cochin Refineries Ltd (CRL) expects to get the final clearance for its proposed 522-mw power project by the end of the current year in which case the Rs 2,990-crore project will start generating

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will be dedicating a 172 mw gas-based power plant to the nation here today. The plant, set up by the Andhra Pradesh Gas Power Corporation Ltd, marks