EU ambassadors agreed to rollover damaging economic sanctions against Russia for six months in the absence of any progress on resolving the Ukraine conflict.
The measures target the oil, financial and defence sectors of the Russian economy and were first imposed after the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July 2014.
The sanctions were due to expire at the end of July and will now run to January 2017.
Portugal did no other nation has ever done. Portugal just powered its entire country’s electricity needs for four consecutive days using nothing but renewable energy.
Using a combination of solar panels, wind turbines, biofuels, geothermal heat and hydroelectric power, Portugal powered everything requiring electricity for 107 hours.
BSE has received market regulator SEBI's approval to launch electronic book mechanism for issuance of debt securities on private placement basis.
BSE-BOND would streamline procedures for issuance of debt securities on private placement basis, enhancing efficiency, transparency of the price discovery mechanism and improving liquidity in the secondary market.
It would come into effect from 1st July 2016.
India's Largest Unconventional Gas Player
Essar has become the country's largest player in unconventional gas, with its Raniganj block in West Bengal achieving an industry-size pumping rate of over 1 mcmd (million cubic metres per day) of coal bed methane, or industry parlance for gas trapped in coal seams.