Three years after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced an ambitious plan to generate 20,000 mw of solar power by 2022 under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, the programme is yet to t

Targeting India’s Food Security Programme, the US has questioned its efficiency and has said that the country should spell out measures to increase the programme’s effectiveness.

Smog in Chinese cities is providing unexpected momentum for a global deal on trade in environmental goods because China urgently needs access to cheaper, cleaner energy, Denmark's trade minister sa

The country’s solar power capacity is likely to go up by 1,000 MW in 2014, almost same as last year, according to a report.

While the country’s solar sector growth has immense potential, the installations during 2014 are likely to top one giga watt (1,000 MW), just about the same number registered during 2013, according

While solar cell cos support govt backing for industry, project developers favour import of cheaper cells

The recent case by the US government in WTO against the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) has created rift in the Indian solar industry.
While the solar cell manufacturers stand by the government’s decision to back the industry, the power project developers are in chorus with the exporters and foreign cells makers citing decreasing cost of solar power as the reason to import cheap cells.

The investigation will seek to analyse India's Intellectual Property Rights regime from 2003

On a strong request from American legislators and business chambers, the US International Trade Commission (USITC) has initiated an investigation on Indian trade, investment and industrial policies, for which it began a two-day hearing on Wednesday.

THE United States Trade Representative (USTR) late on Monday said it would take India to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) dispute resolution mechanism over the localisation thrust in India’s so

Responding to the United States’ fresh challenge over local-buying provisions in India’s national solar programme, New Delhi has said that its policy was compliant with World Trade Organisation rul

Industry says US violating norms

The government on Tuesday said it hadn’t violated global trading norms under the World Trade Organization (WTO), even as the US filed a second case against India on the second phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM).