India's central bank governor has warned that the country needs a "quantum step" in investment to achieve the ambitious double-digit economic growth rate forecast by Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister.

• Date: 18.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from cnn.com

The foreign ministers of Poland and Sweden accused Ukraine on Wednesday of dragging its heels on urgently needed reforms.

• Date: 18.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.11.2010  |  External Relations  |  from earthtimes.org

The large fountain statue of 10 horses rises in the Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabad yesterday. The Central Asian nation, which sits atop the world’s fourth-biggest natural gas reserves, is looking to diversify energy supplies and is pushing to revive plans to build a pipeline to deliver gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India.

• Date: 18.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 18.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from thepeninsulaqatar.com

South Korea's state energy firm said Wednesday it was seeking to build a nuclear reactor in Lithuania, in the country's latest move to export its atomic expertise.

• Date: 17.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 17.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from Yahoo! news

Britain's HSBC bank was chosen Tuesday to advise Bulgaria on restructuring and financing its Belene nuclear power plant project in the north of the country, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said.

• Date: 17.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 17.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from nuclearpowerdaily.com

The World Bank Board of Directors today approved a US$78 million loan for the Kazakhstan Alma Electricity Transmission Project to the Republic of Kazakhstan to improve the reliability and quality of electricity supply to consumers in the Almaty region

• Date: 17.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 17.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from worldbank.org

Bulgaria and Russia clashed Monday over the final cost of a planned nuclear power plant in northern Bulgaria, the energy ministry said after talks over the weekend.

• Date: 16.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 16.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from nuclearpowerdaily.com

The term of submission of binding proposals of strategic investors into Visaginas nuclear power plant (VNPP) expired on November 10, 2010; the Concession Tender Commission, which has been delegated to organize a tender for selection of the strategic investor, has analyzed the related documents, Lithuanian Ministry of Energy was quoted by The Lithuania Tribune.

• Date: 15.11.2010  |  Published on EGF: 15.11.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com