The Dabhol power plant has seen power generation plunge in recent days on account of dwindling gas supplies.
The Bombay High Court has acquitted a science teacher of charges of raping a student at his house on the ground that the prosecution had failed to establish the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt.
Shiv Sena has so far expressed concerns over car shed for the city's planned metro network, the bullet train and the West Coast refinery projects.
The income tax department has conducted searches at the premises of Maharashtra minister Bhaskar Jadhav, after he came under scanner for the lavish wedding hosted at Chiplun, when many parts of the state were facing the prospect of a severe drought.
MahaVitaran, which draws 95 per cent of the power from the project, has started drawing power at Rs 4 per unit.
At least twenty people were feared killed when a Mumbai-bound private luxury bus plunged into a river in Ratnagiri district of coastal Konkan area early on Tuesday. The bus fell into the Jagbudi River near Khed in Ratnagiri district at around 3.30 am.
ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, SBI and Canara Bank collectively hold 18.12 per cent equity in RGPPL, which operates the plant.
The project is currently generating 240 MW against its total capacity of 1,967 MW.
Rain or thundershowers have also been predicted in south interior Karnataka and at a few places over Coastal Karnataka and North interior Karnataka.
Dabhol's assets will be demerged into the power plant and the LNG terminal.
'Absolute non-violence is not only sinful, but immoral.' 'This doctrine of non-violence benumbed the revolutionary fervor, softened the limbs and hearts of the Hindus, and stiffened the bones of enemies.' A revealing excerpt from Vikram Sampath's Savarkar (Part 2): A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966.
Ratnagiri Gas and Power, firm that now runs the Dabhol plant, was allocated 7.6 mmscmd of KG-D6 gas.
The thanks-giving activities will start with laying of wreaths at the police memorial in Delhi and in several other cities on Sunday morning to honour the police personnel deployed in enforcement of the nationwide lockdown, officials said. It will be followed by fly-pasts by fighter and transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force, covering a sizeable number of cities and towns across the country between 10 am and 11 am, officials said.
The Bombay high court on Monday allowed three anti-nuclear activists -- two of them former judges -- to enter Maharashtra's coastal Ratnagiri district, where a proposed atomic power plant is facing opposition.
An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude on the Richter scale hits Rapar Taluka in Kutch, Gujarat. Mild tremors were felt in Mumbai, Pune and western Maharashtra.
The train services on Konkan Railway route resumed after torrential rains in the region triggered a major landslide in Ratnagiri sector of Maharashtra that threw traffic out of gear for nearly twelve hours, affecting scores of commuters.
The Konkan region is witnessing incessant rains for the past three days which has resulted in the collapse of the protection wall, built recently.
A district hospital was ransacked and a few buses were torched on Tuesday in violence during the Shiv Sena bandh in Ratnagiri against police firing that claimed the life of one of the locals protesting the controversial Jaitapur nuclear power project.
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, the nation's Power regulator, has allowed Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Ltd, the new owner of Dabhol power project, to sell electricity to Maharashtra government.
Retired justices B G Kolse Patil and P B Sawant of the Lokshasan Andolan are in no mood to withdraw their agitation until the Jaitapur nuclear power plant is abandoned despite the state government's reign of terror against the locals, reports Prasanna Zore.
Here's a recap of the events from the past 24 hours.
'The people of the Jaitapur have understood the impact. Unfortunately, this matter is being discussed in New Delhi when in reality it should be discussed directly with the people of the area,' says social scientist Mahesh Kamble of the government's plans to set up a nuclear plant in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
'This is a long haul, god knows where it will end.' 'So it is best to conserve all the funds right now for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.'
Konkan Railway Corporation's public relations manager Baban Ghatge told PTI that work to clear the landslide has begun. "We are yet to know when the train traffic would resume," he said
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said people living in the coastal belt would be shifted to safer places.
'If they were really serious (about conferring the Bharat Ratna on Savarkar) what were they doing for the last five years?' 'Why do they have to take so long?' 'Gandhi himself never got the Bharat Ratna so it does not really matter.'
Heavy rains in Mumbai caused major water logging in areas like Lower Parel on Saturday, leaving residents and commuters stranded, and causing a huge traffic gridlock.
"Some of the tariffs (rates) at which agreements were signed in 2007 are unrealistic. If you compare those to PPAs signed in 2010, there is a difference of around 50p to Rs 1 (a unit). Companies are looking at the difference and a lot more are likely to try it (renege)," said a power sector analyst.
Three districts of Maharashtra - Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and Raigad - on the western coast are set to become the power hub of this part of the country.
Dredging of the sea-channel leading to the Dabhol terminal is likely to be completed by end of 2011 but the construction of a breakwater that will guard ships against high tides, was not likely before 2013-14.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray surrendered before an Osmanabad court in a case of rioting registered against him in 2008 and was later released on bail.
In the eye of the raging IPL storm, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Saturday rubbished the charge that his party or ministerial colleague Praful Patel was involved in any alleged wrongdoing relating to the T20 league.
The capsizing MSC Chitra is located just a few kilometres from Sassoon Dock, one of Mumbai's largest seafood docks. Seafood prices are starting to fall there.
Sanatan Sanstha's link to Margao blast conspiracy is getting thicker with all five accused arrested in the case having allegiance to the Hindu right wing organisation operating from Goa, police said.
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday gave another breather to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, staying his arrest till the next hearing. Earlier, on February 4, the court had stayed Raj's arrest till February 17. Raj's lawyer argued in front the bench comprising Justice A V Potdar that his client was arrested by the Mumbai police from Ratnagiri, when a state transport bus was pelted with stones in Badnapur tehsil of Jalna district.
The use of Plaster of Paris to make huge Ganesha idols has been a bone of contention amongst devotees, organisers and ecologists. Nithya Ramani finds out that for the common man, it is more a question of faith and his pocket than environment when it comes to choosing his Ganesha murti.
A moderately intensity earthquake, measuring five on the Richter scale, hit Mumbai and parts of western Maharashtra on Saturday evening with Koyna as its epicentre.
Clearance only after impact analysis, says Jairam Ramesh.
Jeffrey R Immelt, global chairman of General Electric Company was in New Delhi on Thursday as part of his three-day visit to India
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Monday surrendered before a local court in Jalgaon in a case of rioting registered against him in 2008 and was later released on bail.
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