The Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) is one flagship programme of the UPA government where the entire budgeted allocation of Rs 33,000 crore has been committed, but the desired result is still elusive.

RGGVY, a component of Bharat Nirman, was launched in April 2005 with a mandate to electrify 100,000 villages and release electricity connections to 2.3 crore rural BPL households i

In what is being tipped as the largest FDI into India, UK

The power ministry has asked Central Electricity Authority (CEA) to regularly monitor the implementation of ultra mega power projects (UMPPs), with generation capacity of about 4,000 Mw each.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has said that Cairn never disputed cost recovery of royalty on crude oil production from the Barmer field before August 16, 2010, when Vedanta Resources announced buying of a majority stake in Cairn India.

A senior ONGC executive told Business Standard that his company was willing to pay 100 per cent royalty on the Barmer production but wanted it to be adj

Adani Group today said it has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Australia-based firm Carbon Energy to form a joint venture to pursue Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) projects in India.

"The two firms have inked a MoU for a strategic joint venture, where they shall jointly be bidding in tendering process for UGC projects likely to be announced on tenements of Coal India (CIL),

Essar Energy has agreed to buy Royal Dutch Shell

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New Delhi: Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh would dilute environmental norms to allow 16 coal projects to take off, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said on Tuesday.

Jairam Ramesh had not taken a decision by the evening but he wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh apprising him of the meeting between the two.