Power
AERB clears unit 1 of Kudankulam N-power plant
12 Jul 2013
The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant has reached the final stage of getting into generation mode with the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board approving the commencment of the controlled nuclear fission process
Schneider Electric in talks to buy UK’s Invensys for around $5 bn
12 Jul 2013
French energy management company Schneider Electric yesterday said it was in early talks to buy Invensys Plc in a deal that values the British engineering and software group at about £3.3 billion $5 billion
UK govt approves world’s largest wind farm
12 Jul 2013
The proposed Triton Knoll project is twice the size of the 630-megawatt (MW) London Array, the largest operating wind farm in the world, which was opened just a week ago
UK Coal goes into administration
10 Jul 2013
German solar group Conergy files for bankruptcy
05 Jul 2013
Panasonic to exit solar cell production in Europe
05 Jul 2013
Panasonic, which started developing solar panels in 1975, will stop production at its Hungarian solar cell factory in September
Shale gas set to halve oil prices in a decade
01 Jul 2013
Renewables share in energy mix to exceed gas, nuclear by 2016: IEA
28 Jun 2013
As their costs continue to fall, renewable power sources are increasingly standing on their own merits versus new fossil-fuel generation, IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven said in a statement
Reliance Power in spat with CERC over Sasan
27 Jun 2013
Reliance Power and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) are at odds over the former's claim that the first unit of the 3960 MW Sasan ultra mega power project has been commissioned
Rio Tinto may sell Mozambique coal unit
27 Jun 2013
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In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
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By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
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