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 …
Want to know what your life will be like if environmentalists have their way? Just look at the chaos in Australia a few weeks ago. On Sept. 25, a series of explosions at a gas plant in northeastern Victoria resulted in the overnight elimination of 80% of the state's gas …
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has taken on lease, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) idle pipeline connecting Navagam to Koyalim to expand the marketing infrastructure of its 9.5 million tonne-capacity refinery at Koyali , in Gujarat. The capacity of the Koyali refinery is being expanded to 12.5 million tonne …
Apprehending dip in revenue collections, the government is planning to shelve its earlier proposals to grant infrastructure status to power transmission and petro-pipeline sectors for the current fiscal. The parent ministries of both these core sectors, petroleum and power had made a case for granting infrastructure status to these sectors …
PM : Finalisation of the national water policy for providing an effective and prompt settlement of inter-state river-sharing disputes and scientific use of water resources will be on top of the government's agenda, said Prime Minister A B Vajpayee. The Prime minister today also reiterated the goverbment's resolve to accord …
A new UNDP project receiving $557,000 in funding from the Japanese government will support the spread of rural electrification in Syria through the use and development of solar energy and the provision of related training. Signed on 19 October in Damascus, the project is part of a larger $10 million …
The Rs. 59,000 crore-turnover of refining and marketing behemoth, Indian Oil Corporation, is working on a blueprint, that should convert its mega pipelines infrastruture into a 8,000 km long underground highway for evacuating products from the west coast to the deep interiors of the north east.
Experts from international oil majors and research institutions and leading Indian oil companies will meet here in December to debate the dynamic changes taking place in the Indian refining sector. The two-day International Roundtable slated for December 1 and 2 would focus on the present stituation relating to oil refining …
Sumitomo Corporation has raised the hackles of environmentalists by providing a multi-million dollar assistance for the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL) dam project. After prolonged negotiation, Sumitomo has sanctioned a credit of 26,500 million Japanese yen to SSNNL, a Government-owned corporation set up to build the controversial Sardar Sarovar …
More than 580 people fell ill, half a dozen cattle died and cotton and soyabean crops in a four km radius destroyed due to the impact of toxic chlorine gas which leaked from cylinders when a truck, carrying them overturned and caught fire in Bhoyan valley, 30 km from Banswara …
The Union Cainbet on Friday allowed duty free import of equipment as part of a new policy to promote the setting up of mega power projects for creating a total generation capacity of 20,000 MW. The mega power policy was cleared by the Cabinet at a meeting on Friday night, …
At least 267 people fell sick after chlorine gas leaked from cylindars carried in a truck which overturned near Barodiya village of the tribal dominated Banswara district in Rajasthan on Friday. The police said on Friday night that a truck carrying nine cylinders overturned near the village causing leakage in …
STEP aside professor, your computer is about to make an important invention. Yes, intelligent computer programs are beginning to make discoveries of their own, as well as saving valuable research time. Stephen Muggleton, a computer scientist at the University of York, UK, has been working with molecular biologists at the …
EUROPEAN railways may have found an answer to one of the most common complain they face - the noise pollution. By using small knee-high noise barriers along the railway track and an acoustic hood that shrouds the train's wheel, train noise can be reduced to half, say researchers at TNO, …
Fuel made from plants may soon provide cheap energy to the rural areas in developing countries. The alternative is a result of the research which has found a method to generate concentrated gas from farm waste. Robert Brown of the Center for Coal and Environment at the Iowa State University …
RESEARCHERS at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, say they have come across something unprecedented in their 30 years of study of the Universe. A burst of radiation from a star smashed into the Earth's uppermost atmosphere on August 27. The radiation, they say, had enough energy to power civilisation …
The decision by Germany's new government to phase out nuclear powered electricity generation puts a serious dent in Europe's nuclear industry but is unlikely to sink it, say companies in Germany, France and Britain. They stress that any pullout by the Germans is unlikely to take place immediately and would …
Private building owners in Hong Kong will be encouraged to use lighting and air-conditioning more efficiently under a code of practice released yesterday.But up to 20 per cent of older buildings would be unable to meet the criteria, said assistant director of the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department Lee Lo-tung. …
It is a dream come true for the tribals of the highland sof Sachh, Tai-Sural and Mindle villages in the Pangi valley of Chamba districts. Considered as one of the remote habitations in the country, the people here now have the luxury of electricity for the first time in their …
The construction of the multi-fuel plant at Bansbari, Morang in Nepal which aims at reducing the exisiting power shortage of the region has been completed. The plant has been constructed at an astounding sum of Rs 1 billion and has already been connected to National Grid, Lahan. The plant is …
The treatment meted out to battery-operated Safa tempos in Kathmandu despite their increasing popularity is to be deplored. Apparently, operators of these eco-friendly three wheelers are being harassed by operators of Vikram tempos who are chasing them off the streets. Granted that the Prime Minister's office (PMO) has nudged the …
