State funeral for Sayeed in Lakshadweep: Cabinet
Omission of the name and photograph of former chief minister Nitish Kumar from the site of NTPC power plant at Barh, where a unit is being dedicated to the people on Saturday, triggered a war of words between rival parties.
Deshmukh told reporters that he had sought the Centre's help to meet the energy shortfall through various Central schemes and NTPC projects.
The union government has chalked out an ambitious plan and is committed to its goal of ensuring 'Electricity for all' by the year 2012, Union Power Minister P M Sayeed said on Monday.
Amid possibilities that power giant National Thermal Power Corporation may bid to acquire the 'defunct' Dabhol Power Plant, the government on Tuesday said a resolution was 'in sight' to restart the over $3 billion project in Maharashtra.
Union Power Minister\n\nP M Sayeed said power reforms would be made rural-centric
"The Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee has held several meetings. A solution is in sight," Union Power Minister P M Sayeed.
Goyal's statement comes in the wake of RGPPL board giving its approval last month for the conversion of debt into equity equivalent to interest dues of Rs 405 crore (Rs 4.05 billion).
The quiet corridors of the Planning Commission were again agog with activity following talk that the central government would soon announce the former's much-awaited reconstitution.
The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the construction of National War Memorial and Museum near the famed India Gate in New Delhi.
The Group of Ministers, constituted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to tackle the Dabhol power project imbroglio, will hold its first meeting on October 1, Union Power Minister P M Sayeed said on Wednesday.
India's power sector is looking up with as many as 11 state electricity boards having reported reduction in losses during the last two years and the public-sector companies increasing their recoveries
The government on Tuesday moved the Electricity Bill 2001 in the Lok Sabha seeking to consolidate the laws relating to generation, transmission, distribution of power besides rationalisation of tariff in the states.
In a bid to correct the lopsided power tariff structure, the Centre on Tuesday said all the states had agreed to bring down cross-subsidies and rebalance the tariff.
Electricity Act 2003 is likely to be notified in the next 10 days while national electricity and tariff policy will be formulated in the next six-eight months
German Chancellor Angel Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and Switzerland President Simonetta Sommaruga would be participating in the 45th edition of the meet.
In a bid to woo rural voters ahead of the elections, the Centre on Wednesday launched a Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 60 billion) electrification programme for 100,000 villages covering 1 crore (10 million) households over the next two years.
The Union Power Ministry has selected Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (Visakhapatnam Steel Plant) for the National Energy Conservation Award 2002, first prize in the integrated steel plants sector.\n\n\n\n
A smart grid is an electrical grid, which includes a variety of operational and energy measures, including smart meters, smart appliances, renewable energy resources and energy-efficiency resources.
Amid anti-Telangana agitations impacting power supplies in Andhra Pradesh, the Union Power Ministry has set up a special team to monitor the functioning of electricity grid the state.
According to the report, the generation projects envisaged for completion by 2018-19 need to be given priority in fuel linkage.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared changes in the Act. Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal earlier this week said the Bill would be tabled in Parliament soon.
On paper, only 8,000 villages remain to be electrified in the country, but the situation on the ground shows euphoria over numbers is misplaced
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Friday said a security cover is being provided to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal without his knowledge and despite his repeated rejection for it.
She said her party has been consistently advocating dialogue, both with Pakistan and all sections of the society within the state, including the separatists, for a permanent resolution of the Kashmir issue.
Union government limits powers of Anti Corruption Bureau to corruption cases involving Delhi state govt officials
Under attack over the alleged power projects scam in Arunachal Pradesh, Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday rejected allegations of wrongdoing and said those who have "planted" the story against him "will be beaten up with shoes".
With their balance sheets under stress, private companies have lost interest in them.
Rules for mining, roads, power and irrigation projects relaxed.
Saikia was charged by CBI for allegedly violating OSA.
The more mud his opponents fling, the stronger Arvind Kejriwal emerges.
With days to go before Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh go to polls, the Congress is struggling to make an impact in the two key heartland states which have been ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party for two successive five-year terms.
'Our children score very high marks, but do not get admission in good colleges. They get top rank, but they do not get jobs because they belong to the so-called forward caste.' 'What can we do when a boy or girl from the community with first rank is considered only at the 6th or 7th position for a government job just because those with reservation get precedence over us?'
Dabhol's assets will be demerged into the power plant and the LNG terminal.
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Friendlier government policies, greater demand and better supply of coal have fuelled investor interest.
With crucial assembly elections round the corner in four states, Congress leaders are currently debating whether to project chief ministerial candidates in the poll-bound states.
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