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The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has carried out a study to assess the status of ground water quality and soil characteristics around Bhopal gas accident site in the surroundings of Union Carbide of India Ltd. (UCIL), Bhopal. The CPCB study confirms presence of heavy metals, pesticides and some of the volatile organic compounds in the soil samples and the groundwater.

The technology was demonstrated at the UN Conference on Environment in Bangkok in 1995 as a follow-up to Rio Earth Summit and recognised as the best in Asia-Pacific.

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The draft nuclear liability bill indemnifies the supplier of a nuclear plant and caps the liability of the operator in the event of an accident. The indemnity for suppliers is meant to please multinational plant vendors who wish to be free of liability even for accidents that result from a design flaw.

P B Jayakumar / Mumbai April 15, 2010, 0:24 IST

Lines up investments worth Rs 1,00,000 crore.

Punj Lloyd Delta Renewables is just four months old. The company has already become the largest Indian engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) player in solar power, thanks to its first mover advantage.

HALDIA: At a time when the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) is making rapid progress in transforming itself into a vertically integrated transnational energy major, its Haldia refinery is likely to earn higher operational margins in the coming quarter of the next fiscal.

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Discarding its age-old system of allocating coal blocks to steel, power and cement utilities through the screening committee route, the coal ministry has resolved to henceforth allocate all blocks through the competitive bidding process.

DUE TO EXTRAORDINARY MOLLYCODDLING, THERE ARE NO RISKS FOR FIRMS ENTERING INDIAN MARKET, ONLY PROFITS TO RAKE IN

Ajai Shukla / Powai/ Hazira April 02, 2010, 1:20 IST

Westinghouse-Toshiba, GE-Hitachi, AEC and Rosatom, too, have signed MoUs.

Expert committee report by Ministry of Power on Economics of LED lighting in India. Identifies major barriers to LEDs penetration and details the road map to be taken up at policy & action levels to accelerate it.

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