The new leader of the nuclear ministry in Russia has proposed building a research reactor in Iran in addition to the atomic energy plant under construction there has drawn protests from Israel and

The explosion at a Ukrainian coal mine which killed 63 people at the weekend was a sad reminder of the decrepit state of the country's energy sector. The day before the blast, the European Bank for

The power sector in Jammu and Kashmir is set for privatisation with the state government having signed four memoranda of understanding with foreign companies to set up power projects in the

Russia's acting nuclear energy minister has asked the U.S. government to return to the original bilateral deal under which Russia sold uranium from dismantled nuclear warheads to the U.S. In 1993,

A three-day International Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition is being organised at Delhi from Tuesday to highlight issues relating to the upstream petroleum

Technicians at the world's largest nuclear plant shut down a reactor after a pump controlling power generation stopped working. There was no danger of a radiation leak from the trouble, a spokeman

Despite the continuing controversy over Enron's participation the promoters of the 513-MW Kannur power project in Kerala are confident of getting the final go-ahead shortly and taking up

The World Bank is in talks with the Finance Ministry for putting in place a partial risk guarantee programme for the largest power project in the country, the 3,950 MW Orissa-based Hirma

The second of country's eight "fast track" power projects began to produce power in Andhra Pradesh after being mired in controversy and procedural wrangles for five years.The 208 megawatt gas-based

The ministry of non-conventional energy sources has recommended a scheme to set up generation of electricity through renewable sources. Under the scheme,a company which generates electricity using