Kolkata, Sept. 20: The country

Sri Lanka is to sign a commercial agreement with India next week to build a 1000 MW coal power plant in Sampur, Trincomalee, a media release issued by the Ministry of Power and Energy said yesterday.

The coal power plant is a joint project of India and Sri Lanka. This will be the country's largest coal power plant and the total investment of the project is USD 500 million.

To Fund Rs 7k-Cr Project With Rs 5,000-Cr Loan & Rs 2,000-Cr Rights Issue

PETRONET LNG, the largest importer of chilled gas (imported as liquefied natural gas in tankers), is set to diversify downstream and set up two power plants. It is also planning a right issue to part fund the projects.

First it was Kazakhstan, then Namibia and now Mongolia. In its quest for obtaining fuel for its nuclear power plants, India has been reaching out to every possible country that has some uranium resources and is willing to sell it to New Delhi.

New Delhi: In an attempt to revive its closed units and convert the existing non-gas based units to gas-based, the fertiliser ministry has sought 43.37 million metric standard cubic meter per day (mmscmd) additional gas from RIL's KG-D6 basin.

The UPA government

Even as India is projected to be on course to clock 7.5% growth over the next two decades, it would still remain one of the most energy efficient economies in the world. The final McKinsey and Company

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THE government

Energy-starved India, armed with permission to buy atomic fuel from around the world after the end of a three-decade ban, is courting new partners alongside old friends in its global hunt for uranium.