The energy cooperation between the US and India supports sustainable development, harnesses sources to meet 21st century power needs, protects national security and promotes regional and international stability, a senior official has said. The US and India collaborate on natural gas, renewable energy, nuclear energy, clean coal technologies, smart grids, and unconventional and clean energy […]
Day: February 23, 2021
Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port and Hiranandani Group enters into an agreement to build LNG terminal
Kolkata Port Trust rechristened as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, has entered into an agreement with Mumbai based Hiranandani Group to build a jetty based liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at east Midnapur for storage and re-gasification of LNG with a maximum capacity of 5 MMTPA. The proposed project entails an investment of around Rs 3900 […]
RIL gets Sebi approval to hive off O2C business into independent subsidiary
Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), which has proposed hiving off its oil to chemicals (O2C) business into an independent subsidiary, on Tuesday said it had received an approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) and stock exchanges to create this subsidiary. The company now requires the approval of equity shareholders and […]
NGT directs NTPC to pay Rs 58 lakh for damaging environment in Uttarakhand
The National Green Tribunal has junked a plea by NTPC seeking review of an order passed by Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board (PCB) imposing a penalty of Rs 57.96 lakh for damaging the environment. The state-owned power major was found to have violated muck disposal site maintenance norms, resulting in damage to the environment. A bench […]
CBI at Abhishek Banerjee’s residence to examine his wife in coal pilferage case
A CBI team visited the residence of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday to examine his wife Rujira in the coal pilferage case, officials said. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited the residence of her nephew Abhishek in south Kolkata’s Harish Mukherjee Road minutes before the CBI team landed there. The CBI’s visit to Abhishek’s […]
Rules tightened for international flyers coming to Delhi amid cases of mutant Covid-19 strains
NEW DELHI: In view of mutant variants of Covid-19 spreading in some countries, submission of self declaration form (SDF) has been made mandatory for all international passengers arriving at Delhi airport as per the government guidelines. The travellers will also need to upload a mandatory RT-PCR or molecular test report (test undertaken within 72 hours […]
Rs 500 crore aid to state-run OHPC to buy back AES share in OPGC
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the power sector needs high capital infusion to strengthen the transmission and distribution network for supply of quality power to the consumers, the State government has made a provision of Rs 1,799 crore for 2021-22. A substantial portion of the budget has been provisioned to buy the AES Corporation’s stake in OPGC […]
Odisha to construct 5,000 km roads and 30 bridges
BHUBANESWAR: Giving a big push to infrastructure development, the State government has proposed to invest Rs 2,296 crore under Road Development Programme with a target to construct 1,000 km of roads, 30 bridges and two rail over bridges in 2021-22.
NGT: Frame guidelines to phase-out power plants
CHENNAI: The Southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the Union government, Central Electricity Authority (CEA), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the State-owned power company Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) India, following a petition filed ‑ demanding proper disposal of hazardous substances while decommissioning a plant. The petitioner Dharmesh Shah, […]
Boeing grounds 777s after engine fire in Colorado
NEW YORK: Dozens of Boeing 777 planes were grounded worldwide Monday following a weekend scare on a United Airlines’ plane that suffered engine failure and scattered airplane debris over suburban Denver. The incident on the flight out of Denver — which quickly returned to the airport after part of the engine caught fire and broke […]
Diesel price hike and lack of customers pushing cab drivers to leave the wheel in Bengaluru
BENGALURU: Many drivers in the city are quitting app-based cab platforms, unable to take the double blow of soaring diesel prices and reduced demand due to Covid-19 restrictions. In Bengaluru, diesel and petrol prices were at a record Rs 85.84 and Rs 93.61 per litre, respectively, on Monday. In addition to fuel price hike, demand […]
CBI questions Abhishek’s sis-in-law in ‘coal scam’
KOLKATA: A CBI team, comprising eight officers, questioned Mamata Benerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee’s sister-in-law, Menka Gambhir, at her residence for over three hours on Monday in connection with its probe into the alleged coal-mining scam. A few minutes before the CBI team knocked at Gambhir’s house on EM Bypass, the Trinamool Congress Diamond Harbour MP’s […]