New Delhi: State-run BHEL said it has bagged a contract worth Rs 2,525 crore from Abhijeet Infra for setting up a 1,080 MW thermal power plant (4x270 MW) in Jharkhand. "Valued at Rs 2,525 Crore, the contract envisages supplying and installing the main plant package for Abhijeet Infra Ltd's upcoming coal-based power plant in Ranchi Jharkhand," a statement said.
New Delhi: If only inflation woes could be washed away by the summer monsoon. Instead, India is girding itself for a "new normal" of inflation running at 6 to 8 per cent, from the roughly 5 per cent considered acceptable by policymakers in recent years, as a racing economy exacerbates structural bottlenecks.
Pakistani prosecutors on Monday filed an application seeking permission for an Indian magistrate and a police officer to depose via video conferencing in the anti-terrorism court conducting the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
We are all big consumers of electronics, from multiple cellphones to our big-screen television sets to the little computer that runs our car. But all of them have a life, at the end of which it becomes garbage, waste that goes into landfills, and then pollutes the earth. While the Russian capital swelters and coughs through a summer of 40-degree heat and smog from rampant forest and bog fires, six young men live sealed inside a container, at a constant 22 degrees Celsius.
Lonely souls could now look forward to a unique company, thanks to European scientists who have unveiled the world’s first robot which is able to display and detect human emotions.The humanoid machine, called Nao, which hunches its shoulders when it feels sad and raises its arms for a hug when it’s happy, has been designed to mimic the emotional skills of a one-year-old child, say the scientists.
Two astronauts have carried out an eight-hour spacewalk to try to repair a cooling system on the International Space Station but were only partially successful.
In its first demonstration of “affirmative action”, 55 of Corporate India’s top 1,000 companies have decided to make “caste disclosures” of their workforce in their annual reports next financial year. Led by almost all companies of the $70.8 billion Tata Group, the select and progressive list of 55 includes Mahindra & Mahindra and Godrej Industries from the Western region.
Indian Railways have rolled out an electric locomotive that will not only supply power to flagship trains like Rajdhanis and Shatabdis while pulling them but also eliminate noise pollution and save energy.The new locomotive of the WAP 7 class has been fitted with a technology called the ‘head on generation scheme’ to power the trains and the pantry as well as run the air-conditioning system.
Led by the realty and consumer durables sectors, the BSE benchmark Sensex today rose by over 143 points to its highest close since February 1, 2008, on expectations that a good monsoon this year will boost demand.
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) plans to invest Rs. 2-lakh crore across asset classes in 2010-11, up from the Rs. 1.92 lakh crore last fiscal.