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Top Ten Profit Making Central Public Sector Enterprises

Table shown below provides the list of top ten profit making CPSEs.  Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., NTPC Ltd. and Coal India Ltd. ranked first, second and third CPSEs respectively amongst the top ten profit making CPSEs. As per the Public Enterprises Survey 2011-12, tabled in Parliament recently, all the top ten profit making companies …

Three in five Southeast Asia markets showed strong growth in technical consumer goods market in 2012 Q4: GfK

Indonesia and Malaysia sustained positions as top two growth markets; Telecommunication remains key driver of growth 6 March, 2013, SINGAPORE – Technical consumer goods (TCG) in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand continue to expand in the fourth consecutive quarter of 2012, making them the three fastest growing markets in the region with their robust growth of …

Modeling Jupiter and Saturn’s possible origins

Washington, D.C.—New theoretical modeling by Carnegie’s Alan Boss provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter and Saturn—might have formed and evolved. His work was published recently by The Astrophysical Journal. New stars are surrounded by rotating gas disks during the early stages of their lives. Gas giant planets are thought …

ISS appointed super agent as super cranes arrive in Britain

Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world’s leading maritime services provider, was called on to act as agent for the arrival of the first giant cranes at the UK’s new global container port, DP World’s London Gateway. As the largest quay cranes in Britain, bigger than the London Eye and weighing 2,000 tonnes each, ISS arranged …

Indium Corporation Product Specialist to Present at IMAPS Conference

Indium Corporation’s Maria Durham, Product Specialist – Semiconductor and Advanced Assembly Materials, will present at the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) International Conference and Exhibition on Device Packaging in Scottsdale, Arizona on Tuesday, March 12. Durham’s presentation, Semiconductor Fluxes for Wafer Bumping in 3D Assembly, examines, both experimentally and with theoretical analysis, the spin-coating …

Outcome of Doha Climate Change Conference 2012

The key outcomes of the eighteenth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Doha, Qatar from November 26 to December 8, 2012 include amendment of the Kyoto Protocol to implement the second commitment period for emissions reductions by developed country parties under the Protocol; successful conclusion of …

Failure of Ganga and Yamuna Action Plans

Ganga Action Plan(GAP) is being implemented since 1985 for undertaking pollution abatement activities in the identified polluted stretches of river Ganga through implementation of works like interception and diversion of sewage, setting up of sewage treatment plants, low cost sanitation works, crematoria work etc. Total Sewage Treatment capacity of 1091 million liters per day (mld) …

Environment Clearance to Infrastructure Development Projects

Under the provisions of EIA Notification 2006, as amended in December 2009, projects or activities at 7 (a) to 7(i) i.e. ‘Physical Infrastructure including Environmental Services’ and 8(a) & 8(b) i.e. ‘Building and Construction and Township and Area Development Projects’ under the Schedule of the Notification shall require prior environmental clearance from the concerned regulatory …

CIL to Abolish Manual Mining

Coal India Limited (CIL) has adopted the policy of completely abolishing manual mining and replacing it gradually with mechanization like introduction of long wall mining, continuous miner, High Wall mining, Side Discharge Loader (SDL), Load-Haul-Dump (LHD) etc. This information was given by the Minister of State for Coal Shri Pratik PrakashBapu Patil in a written reply in Lok Sabha today. …