Dabhol power plant is a lesson on what to avoid while setting up large infrastructure projects.
'Producer Sajid Nadiadwala and Director Ahmed Khan wanted Tiger to look different.' 'We did a lot of research for his hair and finally narrowed down to his current look.'
The proposed expansion of the Dabhol power project under Ratnagiri Gas & Power Pvt Ltd (RGPPL) by 2,100 Mw from the present capacity of 1,940 Mw has been stalled for want of assured gas supply from the KG-D6 gas field, operated by Reliance Industries Ltd, and adequate number of power procuring states.
Other members include former Central Bank of India chairman and managing director Homai A Daruwala, former bureaucrat of the Madhya Pradesh cadre Prashant Mehta and RGPPL's managing director R K Srivastav.
The beleaguered Dabhol power plant will from October 1 start buying natural gas from Reliance Industries to cut electricity generation cost at the nation's largest gas-fired unit.
A team of BJP leaders visited over 15 families of the deceased in Raigad and Ratnagiri districts and offered jobs to the kin of the victims.
Intense spells of rain are likely to continue in the districts of Thane, Raigad and Mumbai during next four hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Reliance Industries has inked deals to supply gas from its eastern offshore KG-D6 fields to most power sector consumers, including Essar Power and an Anil Ambani Group firm.
In 2017, a consortium led by Russian state oil company Rosneft agreed to buy Essar Oil for $12.9 billion in India's biggest foreign acquisition of a homegrown company. Rosneft's buyout of Essar's assets was meant to herald a wave of energy investments in India - over six decades after Esso, Caltex and Shell invested in India's refining sector in the 1950s. But the government has tripped up in its efforts to sell Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), formerly Burmah Shell, a blue chip public sector company. Bidders include a couple of global funds and resources firm Vedanta.
'It could rain about 200 mm in short span of time.'
'The government there at one point did not even permit migrant labourers to return...we do not want to say anything against anyone but the situation there was not handled properly'
Munde, whose party is a key ally in the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government, has made the demand in a letter written to Thackeray on Monday.
In a kind of relief, record 5,071 patients were discharged in a single day, leading to the overall count surpassing the number of active cases in the state for the first time.
Incessant rain has lashed parts of Mumbai on Tuesday morning, disrupting local train services and road traffic with water logging in several low-lying areas. The weatherman has predicted widespread rainfall in the state during the next 36 hours.
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Speaking at a video conference to take a stock of damage caused by the cyclone in the coastal district which is adjacent to Mubai, Thackeray also directed that electricity supply be restored quickly.
Sulking Maharashtra Industries Minister Narayan Rane on Thursday said he will quit the Prithviraj Chavan ministry on Monday but has decided to remain in the Congress.
All efforts were being made to ensure there was no loss of life due to the cyclone that was likely to make landfall near Alibaug on Wednesday, he said, adding that the Army, Navy and Air Force were on stand-by. Thackeray also elaborated on 'dos and don'ts' in the situation.
With the cyclone set to make landfall on Wednesday, Maharashtra and Gujarat activated their disaster response mechanism, deploying NDRF teams and evacuating people from areas likely to be hit.
The whale had drifted into shallow waters near the Jaitapur power plant in Ratnagiri district.
The actor got married to his girlfriend Visitha in a low key affair.
As many as 79 people have lost their lives in incidents related to cyclone Tauktae in different parts of Gujarat, officials said on Thursday as the authorities carried out restoration work in affected areas and launched damage assessment exercise.
Tropical storm 'Tauktae' (pronounced as Tau'Te) which had intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm, lies close to the Gujarat coast, the India Meteorological Department said. "The landfall process has started and will continue during next two hours," the IMD said.
Maharashtra on Monday said the LNG pipeline for supplying gas to the beleaguered Ratnagiri (erstwhile Dabhol) power plant would be completed by April this year after which the cost of power would work out to be Rs 3 per unit.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh met Petroleum Minister Murli Deora Wednesday to request for alternative sources of gas for the state's Ratnagiri plant.
'Please do not threaten us with street violence.' 'Do you have some humanity left in you?'
Assuring that next Diwali would witness less load shedding, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday said the newly-formed Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Ltd would generate around 2500 MW power to meet the present shortfall.
In line with the target to restart Dabhol power plant next year, Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd will soon begin the process for signing a power urchase Agreement with Maharashtra with an offer to sell power at around Rs 2.70 per unit.
State-run Gail (India) Ltd on Friday approved Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) investment in Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd, the special purpose vehicle created to restart Dabhol power plant in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
There were reports that the Bharatiya Janata Party leader complained of high blood pressure and sugar levels and a doctor was called to examine him.
A new station at Sape-Wamne on the Konkan Railway will be operational from December 15.
An ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh, including an immediate relief of Rs 50,000, was announced by the collector for the kin of the deceased.
According to disaster management control room of the civic body, no injury or casualty has been reported so far.
The street-fighter attitude is what keeps Rane going even at 69. The expectation is -- at least in the BJP camp -- that he will be itching for a battle royale with the Shiv Sena in its bastions.
Delhi, Uttarakhand and Maharashtra on Monday confirmed bird flu cases, adding to the list of seven states -- Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh -- which had already reported avian deaths due to the disease.
The reshuffle had politics at its heart, so the biggest complement of new ministers, both Cabinet rank and below, came from UP, which will see assembly elections in a few months.
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