Power
India may open commercial coal mining to private sector, foreign firms
22 Oct 2014
India is ending the 42-year monopoly of state-run Coal India Ltd by opening up commercial coal mining to the private sector, including foreign companies with subsidiaries or joint ventures incorporated in India
Coalgate: court throws out CBI chief Sinha’s closure report
16 Oct 2014
The director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, Ranjit Sinha, has drawn criticism from a special court in Delhi, which said that the closure report approved by him in the coal block allocation scam lacked any legally sustainable "reasons or logic"
India, Canada negotiating nuclear, oil deals to boost energy cooperation
15 Oct 2014
India and Canada are negotiating commercial contracts for supply of uranium for Indian nuclear reactors as part of increased energy cooperation between the two countries
Solar energy could be major source of power by 2050: IEA
29 Sep 2014
The IEA said photovoltaic expansion would be led by China, followed by the US, while solar thermal electricity could also grow in the US along with Africa, India and the Middle East
Coal block cancellations to hit power, steel sectors: ICRA, Fitch
27 Sep 2014
Rating agencies say the Supreme Court's verdict cancelling all but four coal mines allotted to private parties since 1993 will have serious ramifications for the energy and steel sectors, hitting their bottom lines
JSW signs deal to acquire Jaiprakash Power’s three hydropower projects
26 Sep 2014
The deal comes a day after Reliance Power Ltd (R-Power) called off talks to buy JPVL’s assets citing regulatory uncertainties
Supreme Court cancels allocation of 214 coal blocks, spares 4
24 Sep 2014
The Supreme Court ruling will have major implications for the country's energy sector
Coal India plans Rs7,000 cr thrust into solar energy
23 Sep 2014
Coal India expects to spread the project over different locations where it has free land, to get around the challenges of acquiring new land
Sinha diary: Bhushan tells SC he won’t disclose source
18 Sep 2014
Lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who has filed a public interest suit against CBI director Ranjit Sinha, today refused a Supreme Court directive to reveal the name of the whistleblower who provided him with Sinha’s residential guest book
Reveal source of ‘Sinha diaries’, SC tells Prashant Bhushan
15 Sep 2014
CBI director Ranjit Sinha has consistently maintained that the log of visitors at his residence provided by activist Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan to the SC is a forgery, with 90 per cent of the entries forged
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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