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Table of Contents

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  Alaskan storm affects Antarctica

• Saarc countries to have common disaster centre

• Final Baglihar report soon

• Powergrid bags Afghan order

• No plans to divert Brahmaputra: China

• Alstom eyes nuclear power sector in India

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Living with nature

• Two ultra mega power projects for all states

• States to get one paisa per unit incentive for hydel plants

• ADB okays $300 million loan for NTPC

• Wapcos declares dividend

• High Court rejects RIL's plea in NTPC row

• Hydel power to fund state coffers

• Prime Minister's panel pushes for coal blocks to aid power

• BHEL bags Rs. 854 crore contract from CESC

• Power Ministry opposes LNG terminal sale

• CESC receives go-ahead for carbon credits

• NTPC allowed to amend pact with Reliance

• Honour for CLRI

• Ensure accuracy of muster rolls in rural programmes: Centre

• Tata Power inks MoU with Orissa for 1000 MW plant

• Bank norms may be eased for power projects

• Power ministry revises timeline for PSUs' IPOs

• Prime Minister to review power public-private partnerships (PPP) in October

• Private, public firms to be allotted 18 coal blocks

• 16,000 MW allocation reworked

• Maithon project to go onstream by 2010

• More Qatar gas likely for Dabhol

• Energy import may hit 80% in 2031

• Oil ministry told to find LNG for Dabhol plant

• Year of more crop per drop of water

• Ready to help if both state make a request on Mullaperiyar issue: Soz

• Prime Minister writes to chief minister on groundwater

• When floods are not news

• REPORT (R&D)

  Report: conserve prime farmland

• RESEARCH NOTE

  NTPC to be a stakeholder in Delhi-Haryana power project

• Drip fertigation in pit planting increases sugarcane yield

• DVC under regulatory mechanism

• Power plants face 21.02 mmscmd gas shortage

• DVC under regulation

• Power Point - Prime Minister roots for competition, cost cut and efficiency in energy sector

• Prime Minister for opening power sector

• Panel wants Centre to guide power reforms

• Six foreign firms eyeing Andhra Pradesh mega power project

• Power windfall in run-up to games

• Stakeholders divided over Dabhol LNG

• Irrigation woes for rice produce

• BHEL device finds takers

• Inferior CFL: Power saver to guzzler

• NDMC, Cantt to get power from Badarpur plant

• PowerGrid plan gets nine bids

• NTPC to make power equipment

• Twenty two discoms to buy power from mega projects

• NTPC gets 'most admired firm' award

• NTPC plans to set up power parts unit

• Power from space may light up Indian homes

• Private players eye water sector pie

• Suzlon's SEZ project runs into trouble

• Citi to lead mega power lenders

• Shape up by 2007 or be ready for sellout, Dabhol told

• Reliance Energy plans nuclear power foray

• Ultra mega power plants may trigger big-ticket coal deals

• Northeast's potential yet to be recognized

• Improve economics of agriculture

• Prime Minister sets 10% growth target for 11th Plan

• Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam declares dividend

• Don't restrict power trading - CERC paper is a disappointment

• Bail out agriculture with private money, says Prime Minister

• Two power plants to be set up in Maharashtra

• Kalam power for president's house

• Contracts for power projects by December

• GVK Power posts Rs. 7.9 crore net profit

• Government to go slow on gas-fired power units

• NTPC plans to buy power equipment company

• Israeli power company plans joint venture with DS construction

• Meeting power gap difficult: Shinde

• DVC to raise Rs. 14,000 crore for 6000 MW thermal projects

• Dearer fuel may force government to sell off Dabhol plant

• Energy-rated refrigerators, tubelights to hit market

• Government approves $1.2 billion AES power plant

• Government considers selling 20% in power companies via public offering

• Investment equity cap on NTPC lifted

• Dabhol power project restarts

• Core sector grows 9.9% in September on high power output

• Reliance Energy buys Rosa Power

• NTPC finds BHEL super critical units costly

• Power ministry, Tamil Nadu differ on project

• DVC plans 50:50 mining firm with Coal India

• New agriculture policy on the anvil

• Reliance Energy, GVK and Lanco to energise UP

• UP signs 3 power deals

• Centre not cooperating over Reliance project

• NTPC: Powerhouse

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  Dabhol project may be split into two

• Power crisis leaves South Delhi parched

• Vajpayee inaugurates Bansagar hydel project

• Death toll in West Bengal floods rises to thirty nine

• Arunachal powers ahead with Rs. 100,000 crore plan

• Jharkhand likely to get ultra mega project

• REL's Orissa project faces Rs. 2000 crore hurdle

• Shinde against sale of Dabhol's LNG terminal

• Punjab farmers want better compensation for land

• Agitation pressure shifts foundation venue

• Five West Bengal districts declared drought-hit

• Water level at Indira Sagar reservoir being maintained

• Power cuts return to haunt Delhiites

• Hooda vows to bring SYL waters to Haryana

• Dabhol again stuck in tariff mess with Maharashtra

• New ultra mega power project for Jharkhand

• Solar energy fuels a green dream in Andhra village

• Power incentives for Games

• Government shelves separate power firm plan

• Release water, centre tells Uttar Pradesh

• Minister's concern over damage to Dharia dam

• Delhi-Uttar Pradesh war over water may get dirty

• Delhi's power woes end soon

• Southwest monsoon brings deficit rainfall

• Floods fail to wash away hatred against Dalits

• Drought affects sunflower seed production in Raichur

• YSR rules out power tariff hike

• Uttar Pradesh leaves Delhi in troubled waters

• Water Act: MLAs show dissent

• Sheila takes Uttar Pradesh's water ‘politics’ to Manmohan

• Power barter may keep city warm this winter

• Rajasthan farmers revive water agitation

• Rs. 1000 crore down the river?

• Orissa for cess on exported power

• REL to appeal to MERC for alternative recovery route

• Draft tariff code out, discoms to trim losses

• Stations trip, VIP areas left powerless

• Dabhol to sell power at Rs. 5.10 per unit

• Power ministry moots graded reduction in AT&C losses

• NTPC and BHEL turn to cleaner tech

• Delhi okays pact with Haryana for power plant

• Electricity tariff reduced marginally in Karnataka

• Maharashtra to buy Ratnagiri power for Rs. 5.01 per unit

• PowerGrid plans 20,000 km telecom network

• Bansagar project: Centre snubbed

• Kumaraswamy slams Karnataka power board

• Kerala Assembly nod for Neyyar water pact

• Work on DVC's 1000 MW plant to start in 2007

• Expedite NTPC-BHEL power venture: CPM MP

• Seven states held guilty of drawing too much power

• Maharashtra to buy power at Rs. 5.01 per kW from Dabhol

• Energy audit at LG's house

• Water riots an annual feature

• Centre asked to file affidavit on Karnataka irrigation project

• Dark age comes to Gurgaon

• Dark Diwali for flood-hit Barmer

• Set up more power plants

• Nod for Bawana power project

• BSES launches power saving initiative

• Discoms can't snap power before notified date, says High Court

• Hooda for fair distribution of canal water

• Power cuts will not freeze you this winter, says Transco

• BSES consumers get the e-option

• BHEL net up 38% of Rs. 360 crore

• Rainwater enters homes at several areas in Chennai

• Minor irrigation tanks to be rejuvenated across Karnataka

• Stand-off on, farmers' bandh total

• NTPC PAT grows 27%

• Rajasthan to get 450 crore European Commission grant

• YSR announces plan to meet power shortage

• BHEL bags Rs. 950 crore order for captive plant

• Ministers asked to rush to flood-hit areas

• No let-up in rain, several towns under water in Andhra Pradesh

• Power theft cases detected

• Central team to visit flood-hit areas in Andhra Pradesh

• Government begins talks with farmers

• Nod for coal-based power plant in Chhattisgarh

• Washerman steals power worth Rs. 2 crore

• Rain resumes after a lull

• Overflowing drain forces people to vacate houses

• High nitrate content in groundwater in Karnataka

• Delhi water carcinogenic: New tests

• NTPC aims to be integrated player

• Idukki Collector seeks dam authority's intervention

• Uttar Pradesh inks three power purchase agreements

• Heavy water flow from under Baby Dam

• Farmers take to the streets for water

• Cabinet summons discom heads

• BSES, NDPL chiefs called to discuss Capital power crisis

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Cooling Sun may bring relief to sweltering earth

• Science must be harnessed in full: Manmohan

• Earth may be at its warmest point now

• Sky is the limit for homegrown scientists

• Solar vaccine refrigerator

• Quake swarms not always linked to volcanic, geothermal activity

• Taking electricity into the market

• Prime Minister: Poor R&D in universities worrying

• No superpower if there is no power

• Green lessons on growth

• Power of authority is in ourselves

• Power cases not for consumer courts

• High velocity winds, rain hit life in Uttar Pradesh

• The challenge of food security in India

• River of strife

• Forests can be saved for a pittance: World Bank

• Jaiprakash Yadav renews his stint in ministry

• Powering India to economic prosperity

• Climate change poses profound threat

• Petronet to supply gas for power generation

• Private power companies get an ear, coal index based widened

• Cows without fodder, farmers without funds…

• Award for Professor

• ICAR award for Abusar Krishi Vigyan Kendra