GUWAHATI: A crucial meeting between the Assam Government and the Planning Commission to decide on the Annual Plan size for the State for the financial year 2012-13 is slated to take place on June 5.

The Assam Government, said sources, will seek an Annual Plan allocation of Rs 14,537.33 crore. Last year, the Planning Commission had fixed Assam’s Annual Plan size at Rs 9,000 crore. In this meeting,

The federal government has pushed legislation through the lower house to set up a $10 billion green investment bank for clean energy projects.

Hopes are fading that climate talks in Qatar late this year will make even modest progress towards getting a new globally binding climate deal signed by 2015, as preliminary negotiations in Germany

EU nations should pledge that funds from paying for airline emissions will help poor countries deal with global warming, the bloc's climate chief said on Tuesday, after finance ministers stopped sh

Projects to be executed by Power Grid Corp

World Bank would give Rs 13,000 crore for infrastructural development of power generation facilities in the North East which would be executed by Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL), a company official said. PGCIL Chairman-cum-Managing Director R N Nayak said here today the company was keen to improve the power scenario in the region and had executed several long-term and short-term projects in it.

A microfinance provider in Karnataka has been selected alongside seven other organisations from Peru, Indonesia, Cambodia and Afghanistan as a finalist for the Ashden Awards, the world’s leading green energy prize.

The finalists will compete for over £120,000 pound prize, with the winners to be announced at a prestigious ceremony in London on May 30. Shri Kshethra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project in Karnataka is a prime example of the vital role a well-run microfinance organisation can play in meeting the poor’s energy needs.