Chennai | 8 days ago
Further delay in commissioning Kudankulam N-plant
Chennai, May 14 - India's atomic power plant operator, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd - has shifted the commissioning of the first 1,000 MW unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project - to June 2013.According to NPCIL's website, the first unit, whose physical progress is at 99.66 percent, will be commissioned next month, not in May as earlier announced.Soon after the Supreme Court gave it ... read more

Chennai | 8 days ago
Kudankulam n-plant opponents seek emergency plan details
Chennai, May 14 - Anti-nuclear activists have sought details of the emergency plan from the authorities to check their preparedness in evacuating people living within the 16-km radius of the Tamil Nadu's 1,000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project -, an activist said Tuesday.According to the atomic energy project norms, the 16-km radius from a nuclear power plant is defined as evacuation zone or eme ... read more

Mumbai | 9 days ago
Reliance Power posts 94 percent income growth
Mumbai, May 13 - Reliance Power, a part of the Anil Ambani-led group, Monday reported a 94 percent rise in total income for the fourth quarter of 2012-13 at Rs.1,265 crore - and a 15-percent increase in new profit at Rs.266 crore -.For the year as a whole, the company reported a total income of Rs.5,284 crore -, up 91 percent, and a net profit of Rs.1,011 crore -, up 17 percent.The year 2012-13 sa ... read more

Bhubaneswar | 9 days ago
Utkal alumina refinery to commence trial production
Bhubaneswar, May 13 - The Utkal Alumina International Limited -, a unit of Hindalco Industries, plans to start trial production at its 1.5 million tonnes per annum alumina refinery in Odisha by the end of May, an official said Monday.The green field project at Doragurha near the district headquarters town of Rayagada, 400 km from here, was earlier scheduled for commissioning in January.However, it ... read more

Hyderabad | 9 days ago
New major port to boost Andhra's economic development
Hyderabad, May 13 - The proposed new major port at Dugarajapatnam in Andhra Pradesh is expected to further boost exports and imports from the east coast and give an impetus to the economic development of the state.The project was cleared by the central cabinet last week.The port, proposed on 5,000 acres, will be the second big port in Nellore district in south coastal Andhra. The port will be the ... read more

Agartala | 9 days ago
President to open ONGCA's first power plant in Tripura
Agartala, May 13 - President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the ONGC's first commercial power project in Tripura next month, an official said here Monday.The president would likely inaugurate the thermal power project at Palatana - on June 21, a Tripura government official told IANS.During his two-day - visit, the president would address the convocations of the Tripura University and National In ... read more

Guwahati | 14 days ago
Assam needs more foreigners' tribunals, Gogoi tells PM
Guwahati, May 8 - Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to increase the number of foreigners' tribunals in the state from the existing 36 to 100.Gogoi met the prime minister at the latter's residence in New Delhi Wednesday and appealed to increase the number of tribunals as the existing ones are inadequate to dispose of the large number of pending cases, lead ... read more

Chennai | 14 days ago
Second unit of MAPS to be functional by June end
Chennai, May 8 - India's atomic power plant operator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. - is likely to install a new transformer for its second unit at Madras Atomic Power Station - that was shut down last month, an official said.The second unit of MAPS was shut down last month after its transformer was damaged in fire.We are on the look-out for a transformer and in ten days the supplier will ... read more

Chennai | 15 days ago
Rs.1,200 crore paper board project in TN: Jayalalithaa
Chennai, May 7 - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday said paper major Tamil Nadu Newsprint & Papers Ltd - will set up a multilayer double-coated board project at an outlay of Rs.1,200 crore in Tiruchirapalli district.Jayalalithaa announced in the assembly that TNPL will set up a 200,000-tonne per annum - plant to make multilayer double-coated board at an outlay of Rs.1,200 crore. ... read more

Chennai | 15 days ago
Kudankulam N-plant almost ready for starting: AERB
Chennai, May 7 - The first unit of the 1,000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant -, set up by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. -, is almost ready for beginning the fission process, said a top official of the country's atomic regulator.As of now, the test reports and the results submitted by NPCIL relating to the first unit of KNPP are satisfactory. A team of experts will be going to KNPP Mond ... read more