Govt rolls back monthly hike in LPG prices
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) users can heave a sigh of relief. Under pressure from the Left parties, the Government rolled back its decision to increase the price of domestic cooking gas by Rs 5 per
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Russia keen to invest in India's core sector
Russia has expressed keenness to invest in India's economic infrastructure particularly in energy, steel, bio-technology and other knowledge-based industries including IT and software. Russian trade
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Opic sues GoI for $110 m on Dabhol project
The government's renewed efforts to revive the mothballed Dabhol project has received a major jolt. The US government-promoted Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Opic) has initiated arbitration
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Coal consumption norms for captive power plants okayed
Coal consumption norms for captive power plants, determined by a technical committee comprising representatives from Central Elec-tricity Authority (CEA), department of industrial policy and
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PowerGrid IPO may have to wait
PowerGrid Corporation has conveyed to the Union finance ministry on its inability to go in for an initial public offer (IPO) before the first half of fiscal 2005-06. It first wants the Centre to
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Govt rolls back LPG price hike
n major relief to consumers, the government today decided to roll back the decision to hike the prices of LPG by Rs 5 per cylinder.Significantly, the decision comes barely hours after the UPA-Left
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EU set to back plan to win Japan over nuke fusion
European Union ministers will support a proposal to offer compensation to Japan in return for an agreement to build the world's first thermonuclear reactor in France, officials said. Nuclear fusion
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Lithuania government confirms nuclear unit closure
Lithuania's government announced that the first of two units of its Chernobyl-style Ignalina nuclear power plant will be shut down by December 31, in line with the terms of the country's EU accession
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Typhoon muifa halts unocal's Thai dilling
The approach of Typhoon Muifa has forced US gas firm Unocal Corp. to halt drilling in the Gulf of Thailand, but the company said on Wednesday its extensive gas production had not been disrupted.
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Acciona unit plans wind park off cape trafalgar
Spanish renewable energy firm EHN, controlled by construction company Acciona, plans to invest up to 1.5 billion euros ($1.96 billion) to build Spain's first offshore wind park off Cape Trafalgar.
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Product to reduce your fuel consumption by 35%
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Thailand to promote sugar use for ethanol
Thailand aims to boost fuel ethanol output in the next decade using sugar cane, in order to cut its energy bill and greenhouse gas emissions, and boost farm jobs and incomes, an industry official
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Oil up as us winter stocks stay tight
Oil prices rose as a US government report showed heating fuel stocks in the world's largest energy consumer remained tight ahead of the winter, despite a small build in distillate supplies. US light
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Govt rushes to meet Nov 30 deadline for filing Dabhol Power arbitration papers
The Congress-led government, in a bid to avoid embarrassment, is working hard to meet the deadline of November 30 for filing over 70,000 pages and other records in the arbitration proceedings
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Canada seeks overseas gas
With demand for natural gas growing and production declining, energy companies are casting about for new sources of fuel to heat and power North America. But where U.S. communities have balked at
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Electricity may be imported from Iran for Gwadar Port
Pakistan is likely to import electricity from Iran for under-construction Gwadar deep sea port, official sources told Business Recorder here on Wednesday. Sources said that the Iranian authorities
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Aziz offers energy corridor
Investment and joint ventures between India and Pakistan could take off in big way, if there's peace in the region, according to Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
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More power to people of Maharashtra?
Once bitten twice shy. With the deadline for the Dabhol Power Company (DPC)
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Cabinet will take up Left demands on oil, patents
Besides reviewing the hike in petroleum products, the Left parties have asked for the restoration of 9.5% EPF interest. At the Fourth UPA- Left coordination committee meeting the Left parties also
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More OVL investment in Russia okayed
The Cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) approved ONGC Videsh's additional investment of $1.07 billion in the Sakhalin