Growth in Asia and the Pacific outperformed expectations in late 2023, reaching 5.0 percent for the year. Inflation has continued to decline, albeit at varying speeds: some economies are still seeing sustained
Two tropical lows off northern Australia could develop into cyclones in coming days as the La Niña weather pattern persists, but pose no immediate threat to mining and crop regions devastated by cyclones
A Goa Government panel has recommended capping mining activity in the coastal state at 20 million tonnes in the next four years to protect the fragile ecosystem and reduce the social stress. Goa Golden
Sector with 14% share of IIP will slow down growth & affect power sector investments. An unprecedented crackdown on corruption in India’s mining industry, led by the Supreme Court and state-level agencies
India's energy security has come under an alarming pressure from rising dependence on imported oil, regulatory uncertainty and opaque gas pricing policies, according to a FICCI-Ernst & Young report. Supply
Calling for a redoubling of efforts to ramp up the domestic energy supplies, the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, said that the country needs to rapidly increase energy consumption in order to achieve
India needs to rapidly increase energy consumption to achieve the ambitious target of 9 per cent economic growth in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17), Prime Minister Mr Manmohan Singh today said. “We
“We have made history”, exulted the South African Chairperson of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the conclusion of the conference in Durban in the
Global carbon dioxide emissions from industry rose about three percent in a weak global economy this year, a study released on Monday showed, adding fresh urgency to efforts to control planet-warming gases
The United Nations has warned that the world is at the cusp of another recession, pointing to the slowdown in economic growth in all countries including the growth engines— India and China. In a report
The world economy faces the risk of a sharp slowdown in 2012 with governments hard-pressed to spur growth, a United Nations report has said. The report, ‘World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011’, published
