The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …
An international scientific team stands on the brink of one of the most significant milestone in biology - deciphering the entire genetic code a human chromosome. The scientists, based at the Wellcome Trust's Sanger Centre near cambridge, England, have worked out the sequence of 60m DNA "letters" that make up …
Pakistan must resolve remaining issues on its independent power producers (IPP) to win more money from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Bank President James Wolfensohn said on Tuesday. "We continue at the front line of the trying to resolve these issues," Wolfensohn said, nothing that 70 percent …
It may not be the end of the road for Bharat-Oman Refineries Ltd (BORL), at least on the environmental front. BORL, which has been seeking environmental clearance from the Gujarat government for laying down pipeline through the Marine National Park (MNP) near Vadinar to its refinery at Bina in Madhya …
The much-delayed Kaiga atomic power plant is likely to go critical on September 24. This will mean that reactor-II at the plant will generate power for a stipulated time period as part of tests.And if all the tests are validated, the plant is scheduled to be commissioned in December.
A four-member team of geologists from the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) has discovered dinosaur bones and petrified tree trunks in Kutch which may be over 178 million years old. These are believed to be the second oldest fossils in India.
Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company, yesterday said it expects to produce about 100,000 bareels of oil a day from a large offshore field discovered in deep water off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state.
Department of Environment (DOE) in Bangladesh has failed to take action against a factory which has been constantly emitting dusts and harmful particles causing frequent shutdown of Haripur 100 megawatt gas turbine located near the factory.
Minister for Water Resources Govind Raj Joshi said the government aims to provide electricity to atleast 51 percent of the population by the end of the Ninth Plan.At present only about 15 per cent of the 22 million population have access to electricity, that too mostly in urban areas.
Despite the East Timor crisis and political uncertainty in Indonesia, Singapore is expected to sign a new long-term cotnract Wednesday for a supply of Indonesian natural gas estimated to be worth $7 billion.
The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) AOC, Digboi, in the name of modernization has taken up one mega project-Hydertreated Unit around Digboi oil township, by endangering environment and completely destroying the habitat of few rare wildlife species, in blatant violation of the Forest (Conservation) Act 1980 and Environment (Protection) Act 1986, …
Two British-flagged plutonium ships - the Pacific Pintail and Pacific Teal - carrying nearly 500kg of weapons-usable plutonium are stranded off the coast of Japan today, said Greenpeace Japan, as the planned unloading at the Fukushima nuclear plant (on the country's north eastern coast) had to be postponed because of …
A safety inspection scandal in the British manufacture of potentially hazardous uranium- and plutonium-mixed oxide (MOX) fuel rods for use in Japanese reactors has created a new nightmare for the nation's nuclear planners. "We think the scandal will have a bad effect on our whole nuclear policy. It is regrettable, …
Anthropologists in Rio unveiled the oldest known human fossil from the Americas, a woman's skull with African features that could revolutionise theories on the continent's early inhabitants. The fossil - first discovered in Brazil in 1975 but only recently found to come from a woman who lived 11,500 years ago …
Ancient Indian beliefs and multinational business were on a collision course as Colombia's U'wa tribe threatened to commit mass suicide after a U.S. oil firm won drilling rights to disputed ancestral lands yesterday. "We are looking at the information to see what action the community will take. Mass suicide is …
Indian Oil Corporation(IOC) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Elf Antar of France to introduce a diesel additive for transport vehicles and generator sets which will help reduce fuel consumption and improve the efficienty of the engine.
Even as Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are still busy in narrowing down differences on the immediate release of Cauvery water to save the stnding crops in the delta areas, new dimensions to the issue begin to unfold with the Opposition in Tamil Nadu calling for a State-wide protest on September …
The central Electricity Authority(CEA) has accorded techno-economic clearance to the Kaniminike combined cycle power project to be located on the Bangalore-Mysore highway.
India and France are working out joint launch by 2005 of Megha Tropiques satellite, a climate mision that would open up new frontiers for climate and weather applications.
The Mathura, Haldia and Gujarat Refineries of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC) were awarded the first, second prize and the certificate of merit of "the National Energy Conservation Award 1998". The Union Power Minister, Mr P R Kumarmangalam, presented the awards to winners in various categories.
The international environment group 'Greenpeace' has said that shipbreaking yard owners of Mumbai and Alang in Gujarat should protect workers from hazardous wastes that come out while scrapping. A fact-finding team, headed by chief co-ordinator of Greenpeace in India, Nityanand Jayaraman, told a press conference during the weekend in Mumbai …
