The ethanol story started simply enough: Cut India's dependence on imported crude oil. It would save foreign exchange. Give farmers a new a...

Achieving Viksit Bharat 2047 requires agriculture to move beyond production towards value addition, food processing, exports, bio-based ind...

Sugar is one of the oldest distressed sectors in India. For decades it has swung between glut and shortage, carried heavy debt, was depende...

The government and industry are investing heavily to support these crucial climate initiatives. Widespread adoption of these technologies c...

India is launching a new program to significantly increase compressed biogas production. Higher guaranteed purchase prices and subsidies wi...

India introduced the BioE3 policy to tackle challenges related to food, energy, and climate. Approved by the Union Cabinet, the policy focu...

Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced Uttar Pradesh's plans to have 100 compressed bio-gas (CBG) plants soon, highlighting ...

"Jio-bp is actively working on setting up CBG/bio-CNG retailing at its collocated fuel retail outlets and our first outlet is likely to com...

Sharing details of the policy, state energy minister A K Sharma said it aims at setting up compressed bio gas plants, bio-coal, bio-diesel/...

To boost the availability of affordable and clean transport fuel, an agreement was signed for setting up 900 compressed bio-gas or CBG plan...

Adopting biofuels as an alternative source of energy can significantly improve farmers’ income, generate employment opportunities, reduce i...

"Every day 40 million people are going to hydrocarbon retail points to meet their demand, and 190 million people are getting the benefit of...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in March 2015 set a target to cut India's reliance on imports for meeting its oil needs by 10 per cent to ...

Under the GST rates announced recently, bio diesel, ethanol and other mixing products would be charged 18 per cent. For the last 10 years, ...

"No bio-diesel has been offered by the bio-diesel manufacturers till date at the price announced by the oil marketing companies (OMCs).

Only state-owned oil firms and only those private firms investing Rs 2,000 crore in oil infrastructure were allowed to retail petrol and di...

The government is considering a host of tax incentives to promote the use of bio-diesel.