Infrastructure Related

What is Bharat Mala? It is the name given to a ambitious programme of the Modi government which is a road built along India’s west to east land border, from Gujarat to Mizoram, at a cost of around Rs 14,000 crore. It links  to a road network in coastal states, from ...

With increasing incidences of complaints from customers on call drops and inflated bills, Telecom Secretary Rakesh Garg, yesterday urged telecom operators to address customer grievances and improve network quality. He added that public is under impression that frequent call drops are deliberate attempts of operators to gain by charging for ...

News The government will soon auction 69 small and marginal oil fields of state-owned ONGC and Oil India to private firms as a precursor to a full fledged licensing round. The Oil Ministry has floated a note for Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for auctioning of the fields that ...

News India  proposed an amendment to the United Nations’ Montreal Protocol, which calls on countries to phase out their use of HFCs, gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners and insulating foams that are a highly potent form of greenhouse gas emissions. India’s amendment calls for a 15-year transition period for ...

News The Environment ministry today launched a web-based portal for online submission and tracking of proposals related to environment, forest and wildlife clearances. Benefit It will automate the entire tracking of proposals, including online submission of a new proposal, editing or updating of the details in proposals, and will display ...

News India’s electricity generation touched the 1 trillion units mark during 2014-15 for the first time, showing a growth of 8.4 per cent over the previous year. Since 1991-92, the compounded annual growth rate of electricity generation has been around 5 to 6.6 per cent. The biggest contributor was the ...

News Fewer power cuts are likely in India this summer after a surge in output at Coal India helped generators amass record stocks, a turnaround for Narendra Modi who had to battle a power crisis within months of becoming prime minister last May. As Modi prepares to mark his first ...

News The Centre has set up a task force to look into various contentious issues relating to inter-linking of rivers. Role of this panel of experts will be to forge a consensus among states that are not on the same page over the plan to link rivers across the country. ...

News India will double its investment in the Mozambique’s Rovuma gas field by spending another $6 billion by 2019, said oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan who has  returned from a visit to the African nation. State-run firms ONGC Videsh, Oil India and Bharat Petroleum have already invested that much in the ...

News The National Green Tribunal ordered that all diesel-powered vehicles that were more than 10 years old would not be be permitted to ply in Delhi. The tribunal directed the transport department of Delhi government and other concerned authorities to prepare a comprehensive data of registration of all such vehicles ...