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(RTTNews) - India's Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, in his maiden budget proposals of the United Progressive Alliance or UPA government for the year 2009-10, suggested improvement in infrastructure, growth in the agriculture sector, and marginal relief to income-tax payers, besides increasing customs and excise duties, barring some goods.
The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has committed Sh159 million to a green energy project called Lighting Up Kenya, which is expected to generate additional power for the country via solar energy, biomass, wind and biogas.
Connecticut, where more than half of all households use heating oil to keep warm, could bear the brunt of a broad climate change bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives last month, according to a national petroleum industry group.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday cut customs duty on a key wind turbine component and on bio-diesel while presenting his 2009-10 budget proposals, hoping the move would please environmentalists.
The Sensex nosedived by over 800 points and fell below 14,000 level in the late afternoon trade after the Union Budget presentation by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament.
NEW DELHI, July 6 (Reuters) - India, Asia's third-largest oil consumer, outlined plans in Monday's national budget to pull domestic fuel rates into line with global prices and waived tax on natural gas production to spur investment in exploration. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said the government would form an expert group to decide on a viable fuel pricing system in an announcement just ...
New Delhi, Jul 6 : Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today announced the setting up of an Expert Group on a viable and sustainable system of pricing of petroleum products.
SEOUL, July 6 (Bernama) -- South Korea will introduce new fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards, for all passenger cars starting in 2012 to help meet global industrial trends on energy conservation and environmental protection, the government said Monday.
Budget slashes excise duty on cars with engine capacities of 2,000cc.
(RTTNews) - The pace of decline in U.K.'s new car registrations eased significantly in June boosted by government's car-scrappage scheme, data released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited or SMMT showed Monday.
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