As oil creeps towards an unprecedented $150 a barrel the Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora has denied that India and China were responsible for the recent oil rise.
Deori said that the growth in consumption in India was less than in many nations: “I take this opportunity to set the record straight. While […]

India is planning to attract investment commitments of $7-8 billion in the oil and gas sector in its seventh round of the New Exploration and Licensing Policy (Nelp) auctions. This time, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is planning to attract the oil majors, like Exxon which have kept away from the earlier six […]

As part of Global Cool’s campaign to raise awareness of climate change in India, Hollywood celebrity actress Sienna Miller has joined forces with Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan to urge Indians to do more to curb global warming.
The Hollywood actress, and star of “Casanova,” “Layer Cake” and “Alfie” met Bachchan in Mumbai at the start of […]

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called for his country’s scientists and engineers to develop alternative energy sources.
Addressing the Indian Science Congress he said “India must find alternative sources of energy supply. We will need bio-fuel, solar energy, photo voltaic, nuclear and almost all sources, which do not burden the conventional sources of energy supply,” […]

India’s growing economy – and with it its increasing emissions of carbon dioxide - are often cited as one of the reasons why countries such as America refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol.
The argument went like this: Why should America hurt its economy by reducing emissions, when China and India were free to grow their’s […]