Piyush Goyal

Speaking to CNBC-TV18, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said the central support had been doubled to Rs 8,000 crore based on the successful bidding for the Rewa solar park where they discovered a price of 2.90 per unit of solar energy.

India is open for business and now the ball is in your court, said Piyush Goyal, while talking to people about the Union Budget that was presented yesterday. He said that it depends on the entrepreneurs whether they are willing to take the first mover advantage.

Speaking to CNBC-TV18, Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal, said he is in favour of creating a bad bank, which Finance Minister Arun Jaitley earlier said was a possibility.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate today the eighth edition of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS), that will be attended by Fortune 500 CEOs, including John Chambers of Cisco and Boeing's Bertrand Marc Allen.

Speaking to CNBC-TV18, Piyush Goyal, the Minister of State for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines said demonetisation will give rich dividends to the poor and merge informal industry with formal industry.

It‘s that time of the year when Overdrive announces the best of the motor-vehicles from all the different categories. Watch as special guest, Piyush Goyal speaks about the future of motoring in India and we announce the winning cars and bikes of this year.

Watch accompanying videos of Express Adda, wherein Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal is taking about demonetisation and the collateral issues.

Speaking to CNBC-TV18 from the sidelines of Pune Inc Conclave Power Minister Piyush Goyal said demonetisation has huge advantages. It will take India to digital banking and make it a cashless society.

Today, India has the third largest reserves of coal in the world. But the [Indian] coal cannot be used by the most power plants in the country.

Anil Swarup, Secretary at Ministry of Coal is very confident of uptick in coal demand going forward because the per capital power consumption in the country is much below that of China.

Infosys more likely to grow at 12-13 percent instead of 25-30 percent is the word coming in from Raamdeo Agrawal, Joint MD, Motilal Oswal Financial Services after attending the Infosys analyst call.

The government is exploring options to sell its stake in the Hindustan Zinc, Power and Mines Minister Piyush Goyal told CNBC-TV18.

In an interview to CNBC-TV18 Power Minister Piyush Goyal said it is time the government gives freedom to these companies to grow independently and efficiently.

Nisha Poddar of CNBC-TV18 was joined by Puneet Dalmia of Dalmia Bharat, Anil Singhvi of Ican Investments Advisors and Vikram Hosangady of KPMG to understand the big deal between JP Associates and UltraTech Cement, and other deals in the offing.

Piyush Goyal, who assumed the charge of Mines Minister today, said he will work towards increasing the share of the mines and minerals sector in the GDP by 1 per cent in the next 2-3 years.

Coal & Power Minister Piyush Goyal says the ministry has been been able to kick-start a lot of stalled power projects over the last 2 years resulting in nearly 46,000 megawatt of additional power capacity coming on board.

The Union Cabinet today approved a proposal to relax norms for utilisation of domestic coal aimed at bringing down cost of power generation.

The Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi has pitched in by reducing vat on electric and hybrid vehicles by more than half, to 5 percent. It has also promised to reduce road tax on vehicles in these categories.

CNBC-TV18 and Mint in a show titled Budget Verdict: The Infra Ministerial spoke to the ministers — in charge of various infrastructure-related portfolios — to understand the steps that have already been taken to push growth and in line with Budget 2016

The government, last week, had announced cancellation of third round of auction for regassified liquefied natural gas (LNG) for stranded power plants.