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Indian Railways wins 32nd Indian Oil Surjit Hockey Tournament

Indian Railways has won 32nd edition of Indian Oil Surjit Hockey tournament for the first time. In the final match played at Olympian Surjit Hockey Stadium in Jalandhar...

November 7, 2015

Heena Sidhu wins Gold medal at 13th Asian Shooting Championships

Ace Indian shooter, Heena Sidhu has won Gold medal in 10 metre Air Pistol event in women’s category at 13th Asian Shooting Championships held in Kuwait. In the...

November 7, 2015

Vision for an Integrated Energy Policy in India

The vision of our energy policy is to made available clean, safe and convenient form of energy to all sectors in an economically viable manner. Energy needs of...

November 6, 2015

Petroleum And Explosives Safety Organisation

Petroleum And Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) is a non-statutory body that control and administers the usage of explosives, petrol stations in India. The agency issues licenses for Operation...

November 6, 2015

Integrated Energy Policy in India

The Manmohan Singh government had launched an Integrated Energy Policy in mid 2000s. That policy envisaged an energy mix that focused on augmenting the domestic energy resource base...

November 6, 2015

Link between food, water and energy securities

In spite of the technological advances made in past few decades, a substantial part of the global population still faces food, water and energy shortages, with the aim...

November 6, 2015

Methane Gas Hydrate

A gas hydrate is a water lattice in which light hydrocarbon molecules are embedded resembling dirty ice. Naturally occurring gas hydrates are a form of water ice which...

November 6, 2015

Coal Bed Methane

Coal Bed Methane (CBM) is natural gas found in coal seams. It mainly consists of Methane (CH4) with minor amounts of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and heavier hydrocarbons like...

November 6, 2015

Plasma Pulse Technology (PPT)

The Fracking technology uses huge amount of water that needed to be transported to the fracking site, at significant cost.  Further, several chemicals are used in fracking which...

November 6, 2015

Shale Gas in India

Shale refers to a sedimentary rock resulted from compaction process of small old rocks containing mud and minerals – such as quartz and calcite, trapped beneath the earth...

November 6, 2015

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