Pricing of water alone will not solve the problems the planners have to grapple with to ensure its equitable distribution in the country.

In sun-drenched India, the fledgling solar energy market is poised for a vertical take-off aided by falling solar panel prices, mirroring the now famous Indian telecom revolution, a senior Welspun

The latest data put together by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) trashes the automobile industry contention that personal cars account for only 0.6 per cent of India’s diesel consumption.

Estimates recently released by the Society for Indian Automobile Manufactures (SIAM) and the 12th Planning Working Group on Petroleum Sector (WGP) had highlighted that personal cars, SUVs and taxis jointly accounted for five per cent of total diesel use in the country.

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia may be okay with a little overlap between the National Population Register exercise and UIDAI's aadhar project, but an earlier note prepar

A Planning Commission expert committee may soon recommend a revised price for ethanol, currently pegged at an ad hoc price of Rs 27 a litre.

For the 12th Plan Period (2012-17), the Government may fix power capacity addition target at around 1,00,000 megawatt. This is the Power Ministry's proposal to the Planning Commission.

The Heavy Industries Ministry is pushing hard to ensure that the award of equipment contracts by developers of large power projects is done mandatorily through a bidding process, rather than the cu

Extension of metro up to Nedumbassery under consideration

Executing the Kochi Metro Rail project as a Centre-State joint venture scheme has numerous advantages over implementing it as a public-private partnership project. Elaborating on the disadvantages of including private stakeholders in the construction, experts in the mass-rapid transportation sector,

A high-level committee on rail modernisation chaired by Sam Pitroda, advisor to the prime minister, has recommended that the Railways hike passenger fares one time by 25 per cent and index all fare

The government may fix the power capacity addition target at around 100,000 MW for the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2012-2017).

The Power Ministry had proposed a capacity addition target of 100,000 MW to the Planning Commission, which is likely to accept the proposal.