Unfinished tasks of Bharat that is India

We may be free but the taks before us remain undone. Gopal Krishna offers a checklistIn the 63rd year of British parliament's Indian Independence Act dated July 18, 1947, 'to make provision for the......

UP terrorists planned to hit Gateway of India

Five militants, arrested in connection with last month's Uttar Pradesh serial blasts, wanted to carry out simultaneous explosions in four crowded areas in Mumbai, including Gateway of India,......

Move forward on infrastructure, not back

If the minister had stuck to his old fiscal deficit target of 3.6 per cent of Gross Domestic Product, he would have had to Budget for a fiscal deficit about Rs 4,500 crore (Rs 45 billion) less than......

CESC to commission its 600 MW Haldia plant in December

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the plant on November 26. The RP-Sanjiv Goenka group flagship power company, Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation, is set to commission a......

He lights up buildings in Kolkata with solar power and sells it too

Image: Avijit Ghosh. Photograph: Dipak Chakraborty Coal stocks in Indian power companies are abysmally low. Supreme Court's mass cancellation of coal block licences recently will only make matters......

Bengal is now power-surplus

For the first time, West Bengal has recorded surplus power. West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited has surplus power of about 10 per cent. “In the last one year, 30,000......