The United States Department of Energy and the All-India Institute of Local Self Government (AIILSG) has launched a joint training program on ‘Energy-efficient and green cities,’ in Goa.   

Global technology company Moser Baer India Limited has been awarded a contract to develop, in Chandrapur in Maharashtra, one of the biggest indigenous solar power projects in India.

In the next 24 to 48 hours, Reliance Industries (RIL) will start their gas production at the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin. The production of gas from the Dhirubhai 6 (D6) block will boost the revenue from the refinery to up an estimated amount of $2 billion when the production is at its peak capacity.

The state run Indian Oil received government’s consent to merge with the Bongaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. The ministry of corporate affairs sanctioned the merger scheme of both the firms.

Anil Dhirubai Ambani’s Reliance Power bagged yet another contract by bidding the lowest, leaving the second lowest bidder National Thermal Power Corporation with a comparative margin of 53 paise to win the 4,000 MW Tilaiya ultra mega power project (UMPP).

India and Kazakhstan have entered into an agreement, according to which Kazakhstan will provide Uranium to India.

The global economic meltdown does not seem to faze the Hinduja Group. The group believes that the economic strength of India or any other country should not be measured by the performance of stock markets and has gone a tad forward proving that it would never believe so.

Three Indian public sector companies have decided to set up a joint venture for the export of nuclear power reactors.

The Indo-US nuclear deal is on course to ratification by the US Congress; and now India is close to inking an agreement with the French government.

GMR Energy, a unit of GMR Infrastructure Ltd. has announced India' first privately owned and operated nuclear power plant, close on the heels of the NSG waiver for India in Vienna recently.