The prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power Project (RGTPP), Khedar in district Hisar achieved a major milestone when its first unit of 600 mw was fired on coal and synchronised with the grid in a record period of 36 months. Stating this, Sanjeev Kaushal, managing director of HPGCL, said that the unit was synchronised with the grid on coal firing at 6: 50 a m on Wednesday and is presently running at a load of around 75 mw with two coal mills in service. The successful coal firing of unit-1 has p
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With the rate of inflation declining below 6% last week and expectation of a record foodgrains harvest this year, the prices of essential food items such as rice, sugar, potato, mustard oil remained largely stable during last three months. However, the prices of onion and wheat has risen in the last four months. Sugar prices shows a rising trend because of fall in production and low inventories with millers. According to an analysis by FE of the wholesale price in Delhi during October 2008 - Ja
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Oil at $70 a barrel is the right price to keep companies and producers investing in new resources, Qatar's oil minister said on Wednesday.
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On Monday, July 23rd, turnover on MCX in the first session up to 5 pm was Rs 3988.53 crore.Total number of trades was 70,248.
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The Brent crude in London rises as high as US$78.40 a barrel for the first time since Aug. 9, 2006 very close to the intraday record high of US$78.64, hit on Aug. 7, 2006
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It has invited leading organic certification agencies and consultants, like Scal, Ifoam and Indocert, to help farmers adopt organic cultivation of spices and give training to its officials and NGOs, helping farmers on this count
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The Indian Diamond Institute (IDI) has started an on-line service for verifying the diamond grading documents
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However market sources say there can be some improvement in prices from August, till September because of festive demand
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This is because exports of these products are dependent on sourcing of raw materials/inputs from within the country and not on imported stuff
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