New Delhi: Anup Chandra Pandey appointed as new Election Commissioner..
New Delhi: LIC Chairman M R Kumar got nine-month extension from Govt..
New Delhi: India Oil Refiners Shut for Work Before Likely Demand Pickup..
PFC extended 3 crores support for construction of Dr. KB Hegdewar School..
New Delhi: NBCC signs MoU with ALIMCO to contribute 100.62 lacs..
New Delhi: BDL received order of Rs 372.98 crore to supply MRSAM Missile..
New Delhi: Market-Cap of all good PSUs stood 19.45 Lakh..
New Delhi:GAIL honored with Golden Peacock Award..
New Delhi: HSCC's agreement of worth 1,800 crore for upgradation medical projects..
New Delhi: Capex utilisation in DFCCIL increased 21%-Railway Minister reviewed the progress..
TOKYO: Japan on Monday pledged to offer $10 billion financial aid for decarbonisation projects in Asia, such as renewable energy, energy-saving, and conversion to gas-fired power generation from coal-fired power to help with an energy transition.
In a virtual meeting with ASEAN energy ministers,
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Iran's sole nuclear power plant has undergone a temporary emergency shutdown, state TV reported on Sunday.
An official from the state electric energy company, Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last "for thre
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Paris: As electric car sales soar, Europe has started to build up its capacity to produce batteries on the continent but it remains far from reducing its dependence on Asia.
China, Japan, and South Korea produce most of the world's electric car batteries.
Europe now has projects
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Washington: Defending US's restrictions on the export of key raw materials for the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccine that threatens to slow India's vaccination drive, a senior State Department official has said the Biden administration's first obligation is to take care of the requirements
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China is willing to help India as it fights a surge in coronavirus cases, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday.
China is aware that the epidemic in India has been severe recently, and there is a temporary shortage of necessary materials for epidemic prevention, said Wang Wenbin
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MONTREAL: Hydro-Québec, Canada’s largest electricity producer, on Wednesday entered the fast-growing market for storing renewable energy, where it could face competition from the likes of Tesla.
Hydro-Quebec launched its EVLO unit as countries push to reduce emissions,
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LONDON: Oil prices rose on Wednesday as news about COVID-19 vaccines lifted investor hopes for a recovery in fuel demand and outweighed concerns sparked by figures indicating U.S. oil inventories jumped last week.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) said on Tuesday that U.S. cru
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New York: Oil prices slipped on Monday as the positive impact from COVID-19 vaccine news and an OPEC+ deal on oil production cuts was undermined by surging coronavirus cases and heightened tensions between the United States and China.
Both oil contracts gained around 2% last week a
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London: Global oil prices moved in and out of negative territory on Friday but remained on course for a second monthly fall as rising COVID-19 cases in Europe and the United States heighten concerns over fuel consumption.
Brent crude was down 3 cents at $37.62 a barrel by 1140 GMT
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Bogota: Colombia's output of top exports oil and coal will fall by 16.9% and 28.4% respectively over the next 10 years, government predictions showed on Tuesday, but the impact will be mitigated by better prices for both fuels.
Oil production will fall to 654,000 barrels per da
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced three regional energy programs in South Asia, valued at more than USD28 million through the US Government's Asia Enhancing Development and Growth through Energy (Asia EDGE) initiative that would improve access to affordable, secu
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Singapore: Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said on Monday the world should be looking at all options to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases in its fight against climate change, but that getting rid of oil and gas would be “far-fetched and unrealistic”. “Let’s
Posted Date : 26-10-20
Tripoli: Libya's National Oil Corporation announced Friday the resumption of oil exports from two key terminals in the east of the conflict-strewn country, as rival administrations struck a ceasefire deal.
"Force majeure is being lifted from Ras Lanuf and Al-Sidra starting
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Swedish steelmaker SSAB AB is exploring a combination with Tata Steel’s European business as a back-up plan to a deal with Thyssenkrupp AG amid industry consolidation, according to people familiar with the matter.
SSAB is holding preliminary talks with Tata Steel of India as
Posted Date : 24-10-20
Singapore: In mid-October, the International Energy Agency’s 2020 Global Energy Review showed that while global energy demand declined by 3.8% in the first quarter of 2020, global coal demand was hit the hardest, falling by almost 8%, when compared with the same period in 2019.
Posted Date : 23-10-20
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s residual fuel oil inventories slipped by 1.4% to a two-week low in the week ended Oct. 21 amid limited net import volumes and a jump in unusual exports to Saudi Arabia, official data showed on Thursday. The lower stockpiles, which snapped five straight weeks of i
Posted Date : 22-10-20
WARSAW: Poland will ask the European Commission to approve state aid for the construction of a nuclear power station, the minister responsible for energy infrastructure said on Thursday.
“It is impossible these days to build a nuclear power plan without state support,”
Posted Date : 22-10-20
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: A new wonder is rising in the southern desert of Dubai against the backdrop of Persian Gulf beaches, but it’s not another skyscraper to grace the futuristic sheikhdom. Instead, it’s one of mankind’s oldest power sources gaining its own space on the o
Posted Date : 22-10-20
Israel: Israeli state-owned company Europe Asia Pipeline Company (EAPC) and MED-RED Land Bridge (MRLB), a joint venture between Petromal – an integrated oil and gas company based in Abu Dhabi – and other Israeli companies, have signed a binding MoU for energy collaboration.
Posted Date : 21-10-20
Brussels: The European Union has begun an anti-dumping investigation into imports from China of steel towers used for wind turbines, the EU official journal said on Wednesday.
The investigation follows a complaint by the European Wind Tower Association, which says the volumes and l
Posted Date : 21-10-20
South Korea: South Korea’s majority state-owned utility KEPCO plans to cancel or convert to LNG two remaining overseas coal power projects in its pipeline, which includes the 630MW Thabametsi plant in South Africa and the 1,000MW Sual 2 project in the Philippines.
According t
Posted Date : 21-10-20
Melbourne/Singapore: Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday, steadying after three days of declines due to worries that a resurgence of coronavirus cases globally is stifling a recovery in fuel demand, while growing output from Libya adds to plentiful supply. Brent crude futures were trading d
Posted Date : 20-10-20
Warsaw: Poland is opening a field hospital at Warsaw’s landmark national stadium and will bring in the army to handle drive-through coronavirus testing facilities amid a surge in new infections that threatens to overwhelm the healthcare system. Officials said the Law and Justice (PiS)
Posted Date : 19-10-20
London/Brussels: Britain and the European Union said on Monday the door was still open to a deal, calling on each other to compromise to find a way to protect billions of dollars of trade between the neighbours. With just over two months before Britain ends a status-quo transition arran
Posted Date : 19-10-20
Moscow: The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd have received renewed approval to conduct late-stage clinical trials in India of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, the sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday.
Large-scale trials of the Sputnik
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The British’s SSE plc (formerly Scottish and Southern Energy plc) an energy company headquartered in Perth, Scotland on Tuesday agreed to sell its 50% stake in West Yorkshire-based Ferrybridge and Skelton Grange assets for 995 million pounds ($1.30 billion) in cash, as part of its strategy to d
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As part of a large-scale global trial, scientists in Britain have launched a study to test if the widely-used Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine could help protect people against Covid-19.
Developed almost a century ago, BCG vaccine was originally designed to fight tuberculosis (TB
Posted Date : 12-10-20
A common fear is that the Nov. 3 contest between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden remains undecided, leading to protests that could escalate into civil unrest, or even sectarian conflict.
An illustration of those concerns came in Michigan on Thursday, with the announce
Posted Date : 09-10-20
Dubai: Oman will re-introduce a night-time ban on movement and enforce the overnight closure of shops and public places between Oct. 11 and 24, to help contain the coronavirus, state media reported on Friday.
The restrictions will apply from 8 p.m. (2000 GMT) to 5 a.m. (0500 GMT)
Posted Date : 09-10-20
London/Washington: Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said on Thursday they had taken down more than a dozen disinformation networks used by political and state-backed groups to deceive users on the social media platforms in multiple countries.
In separate statements, the two companies said
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Louisiana: Louisiana on Thursday steeled itself for another in a record-breaking series of violent storms as Hurricane Delta sped across the Gulf of Mexico toward a region still recovering from the last storm.
Delta struck Mexico’s tourist enclaves on the Yucatan peninsula on Wednesday, sh
Posted Date : 08-10-20
London: Last month was the world’s hottest September on record, with unusually high temperatures recorded off Siberia, in the Middle East, and in parts of South America and Australia, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Wednesday.
Posted Date : 07-10-20
Chinese short-form video platform TikTok has continued its expansion into the esports industry by signing up as the new principal partner of London-based esports organisation Tundra.
Posted Date : 07-10-20
Greece: A Greek court on Wednesday found the leadership of Greece's neo-Nazi party convicted of running a criminal organization. This trail has been lasting for more than five years.
The judge gave the verdict on 68 defendants, a large number of people gathered outside the court
Posted Date : 07-10-20
Russia has registered 11,615 COVID 19 cases total to 1,237,504, the country’s corona virus response center said on Tuesday.
“In past 24 hours, Russia has confirmed 11,615 COVID 19 cases in 83 regions, of which 3,282 (28.3 percent) were detected actively, with people showing no clin
Posted Date : 06-10-20
Singapore: China is in talks to have its locally-produced COVID-19 vaccines assessed by the World Health Organization, as a step toward making them available for international use, a WHO official said on Tuesday.
Hundreds of thousands of essential workers and other groups considered at high r
Posted Date : 06-10-20
California: The Indian American woman from California sentenced to the 15 years jail after found guilty of conspiracy to obtain forced labor and two counts of obtaining forced labor by a federal jury on March 14, 2019, after an 11-day trial. The woman named Sharmistha Barai and her husband Satish
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Bengaluru: Alphabet Inc’s Google has extended its deadline for Indian app developers to comply with a new billing system by six months to March 31, 2022, the U.S. tech giant said in a blog post on Monday.
Google also said it was setting up "listening sessions" with leading startups to unde
Posted Date : 05-10-20
Hong Kong: Hong Kong protestors protesting against the Chinese government and supporting India on China’s national day. People came out on the roads to raise their voices against the Chinese government. The pro-democracy protesters have been on streets on and off since last year after
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“Thanks for waiting,” Musk said.
Tesla’s entry could come at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is increasingly becoming focussed on promoting the use and manufacture of electric vehicles.
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New Delhi: Engineers India Limited (EIL) and Evergreen Technologies Private Limited (ETPL) have signed a Collaboration Agreement for Marketing, Supply & Development / Upgradation of Proprietary It ...
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