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PTI The PM on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting to discuss a roadmap to reduce dependency on import of oil and gas. During the meeting, the Petroleum Ministry presented strategies for achieving the objective by increasing production of crude oil and gas, promoting biofuels and renewables, energy efficiency and conservation.The meeting was attended by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, Vice Chairman and CEO NITI Aayog, Cabinet Secretary, and senior officials from PMO, Petroleum Ministry, MEA, Home Ministry, Finance Ministry and Defence Ministry.

The Dollar Business Bureau Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday included 19 new ministers in his Council of Ministers at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The oath has been administered by President Pranab Mukherjee to the 19 new ministers of state and to Prakash Javadekar for a cabinet rank. Since the current government came to power in May 2014, this is the second expansion of the council of ministers.  The list of 19 ministers who were inducted include: Arjun Ram Meghwal, Anil Madhav Dave, Ajay Tamta, Anupriya Patel, CR Chaudhary, Faggan Singh Kulaste, Jasvantsinh Bhabhor, Krishna Raj, MJ Akbar, Mahendra Nath Pandey, Mansukhbhai Mandavia, PP Chaudhary, Parshottam Rupala, Ramesh Chandappa Jigajinagi, Ramdas Athawale, Rajen Gohain, SS Ahluwalia, Subash Ram Bhamre, and Vijay Goel. The new ...

PTI Over 2,000 projects involving Rs 10 lakh crore investment, which were stuck for years and some of them in key sectors, have been given environmental clearance in the last two years, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday. Javadekar also said that in line with the government's policy of ease of doing business the average waiting period for approval of projects has been brought down to 190 days from 600 days during the UPA regime and the aim now is to slash it further to 100 days. Some of the projects cleared by the Environment Ministry in the last two years were in important sectors such as roads, railway network, pipelines, irrigation canal, and they remained stuck for ...

India has said that developed nations should encourage renewable energy programmes and not "put a spoke into it" as it termed "unfortunate" a recent WTO ruling against its power purchase agreements with solar firms.  Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, who is here to sign the historic Paris climate change agreement at the United Nations today, said he will use the occasion to raise the "unfortunate" case of the US going to the WTO on the issue.  "I will definitely raise (this issue) in my speech. This is unfortunate, not the ruling, even America going to WTO, that is unfortunate," he told PTI here.  Javadekar added that India has launched the world's largest renewable program and reserved a "very small" part of it for Indian ...

 The Dollar Business Bureau Stressing on collective efforts to address the challenge of climate change, India has asked the developed world to help developing countries devise their own ways to curb carbon emission. In his address at the Major Economic Forum held in Washington on April 19-20, the Minister of State for Environment, Prakash Javadekar, said that providing critical technologies at affordable cost across the globe is a key to overcome the climate change challenge. “The developed world should not profit from disaster. Climate change is a challenge and not business opportunity,” Javadekar was quoted as having said at the forum in a PIB release. He reiterated India’s commitment for a fair and equitable agreement at the Paris Climate ...