after another disastrous year, the Delhi Vidyut Board (dvb) has prepared an action plan to meet the requirement of the city during the summer next year. According to a technical

The Sri Lankan ministry of irrigation and power has decided to explore the possibility of harnessing wind potential to meet the country's growing demand for power. According to the minister for

Private companies investing in dams is bad news for the environment

DANISH FIRM IN INDIA: A S Velfrost, a US $200-million Danish freezer and deep freezer manufacturer, is considering India as a possible manufacturing base, its first outside Denmark. According to executives, a deal is being negotiated with Blue Star India for a joint venture. However, the plans have not taken off yet because neither companies have found market conditions encouraging. "We would like to have a production unit with a minimum capacity of one lakh units per annum,' said Ole Miller Jensen, sales director of the Danish firm.

In the second sellout within a year, the 520 mw Korba West Power project has changed hands yet again from the Delhi-base Kedias to a foreign consortium of Electrogen Alpha Ltd of US and Korea Heavy

The Kerala High court has admitted a writ petition challenging the proposed 500-MW naphtha power project in the private sector. The project is to be set up at district Kannur with an estimated

oil explorations: The Chinese Oil Company for Explo

A device would quickly detect and shut down faulty power lines. Raj Aggarwal and his colleagues at the University of Bath, uk, have deve

India's foodgrain production is likely to cross the 200 million tonne mark this year. Barring certain areas in Himachal Pradesh and Bihar, which were hit by cloudburst, the country on the whole had a

Visible light can be used for the imaging of the human body