Russia plans to launch an unmanned space vehicle to the Moon in 2015, federal space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday.

With India’s nuclear partners expressing dissatisfaction with the country's civil nuclear law, the government is considering raising the cost of reactors so as to cover the liabilities of the operators as well as the suppliers to keep its ambitious civil nuclear energy programme on the track.

Shortly after India got a waiver from the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group (NSG) in September 2008 to undertake nuclear commerce, it struck high-ticket nuclear deals with the US, France and Russia. However, the nuclear cooperation with these countries has not made much headway because of the concerns expressed by them over the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Law which was passed by Parliament in 2010.

The much-expected construction of Rooppur nuclear power plant would start by June this year, officials said on Wednesday.

Jan 01, Colombo: A team of Russian nuclear scientists will arrive in Sri Lanka this month to study the country's energy sector outlook, the government said today.

Bangladesh and Russia will sign a US$500 million deal in January to complete the pre-construction phase of the nuclear power plant to be set up at Rooppur in Pabna district.

A bitter cold snap in Russia has claimed 123 lives in the past 10 days, an official said on Tuesday.

Even as India and Russia agreed to further deepen co-operation in the energy sector fissures remain between the two sides over the grant of special treatment on investments made by the two countries in telecom and oil sectors.

At the end of the 13th Annual Summit between India and Russia, the two sides remained divided over giving tax incentives to ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) for its investment in Imperial Energy as Russia is understood to linked the issue with grant to special privileges to its own telecom entity Seistema that has lost its licence due to recent Supreme Court order.

Russia has told India that Kudankulam nuclear power plants 3 and 4 would cost “double”, after New Delhi decided that the next two reactors would come under the new civil nuclear liability law, and

India is likely to be the second largest consumer of coal, surpassing the United States, in the next five years, says a report.

Study published by Lancet says surge in car use in south and east Asia killed 2.1m people prematurely in 2010