Petitions challenging the Maharashtra government's decision to issue Kunbi caste certificates to the Maratha community for reservation have been filed in the Bombay High Court. The pleas claim the decision is arbitrary and unconstitutional.
Modi had a night halt at Sinh Sadan, a forest guest house managed by the state forest department, in Sasan after his arrival from Somnath where he offered prayers at the Lord Shiv temple, the first among 12 jyotirlingas, on Sunday evening.
Jarange on Tuesday launched a fresh indefinite fast, sixth in a span of over a year, to press the demand of reservations for the Marathas under the Other Backward Classes category.
Sasan Power Ltd, the special purpose vehicle floated by Power Finance Corporation for the 4,000 MW project, will on Wednesday issue the Letter of Intent to Reliance Power Ltd.
At Rs 1.196 per unit, power tariff reaches new bottom.
Tata Power Company has moved the Delhi high court challenging the government's decision to allow Anil Ambani-led Reliance Power to divert coal from the captive mines of Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project for use in other projects.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has opted not to grant tickets to eight MLAs, followed by Congress which replaced five MLAs.
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group-promoted Sasan Power was Rs 2,500 crore short of the roughly Rs 15,000 crore it needed to borrow for the project. Now, India Infrastructure Finance Company Ltd has agreed to lend around Rs 2,500 crore. A consortium of 12 domestic banks have already committed around Rs 12,500 crore, with State Bank of India and Power Finance Corporation leading the pack, with Rs 3,500 crore and Rs 1,800 crore respectively.
Tata Power was one of the bidders for the 4,000-Mw Sasan UMPP in Madhya Pradesh, finally bagged by Reliance Power. Tata Power says the permission granted for diversion of coal from the Sasan project's captive mines was a substantial deviation from the bid conditions and affected the economics of the project. It approached the Delhi High Court challenging this diversion and sought re-tendering for the UMPP so that the bidders could factor in the benefits of this diversion.
Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Power is likely to announce the financial closure of its 3,960-Mw Sasan ultra mega power project (UMPP) in a few weeks.
Bid evaluation committee wants the combine's 'amicable extrication' from the project.
Six weeks after Lanco Infratech and Globeleq won the Rs 16,000-crore (Rs 160 billion) Sasan ultra mega power project, the Hyderabad-based company is planning to buy out its 70 per cent foreign partner.
Hearing the petition by Tata Power against a decision of the Empowered Group of Ministers to allow use of coal from the captive mines for Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project to other projects, the Court did not give a stay and fixed the next date for hearing on February 24.
The Hyderabad-based company was last week disqualified by an Empowered Group of Ministers, headed by Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.
The fate of the 4,000 Mw Sasan ultra mega power project seems uncertain with the entire bidding process being questioned.
The announcement would help preserve 1,000 jobs in Wisconsin and 13 other states.
Power Finance Corporation, the nodal agency for ultra mega power projects, has sought legal opinion on whether Lanco Infratech had violated the norms while bidding for the Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) Sasan power project.
Lanco Infratech has emerged as the lowest bidder for the 4,000 MW Sasan ultra mega power project, outsmarting its nearest rivals Reliance Energy and Tata Power as well as seven other contenders.
The company wants 'economic restitution' due to rupee depreciation and changes in law.
Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Power (R-Power) has signed a supplementary power purchase agreement (PPA) with fourteen buyers from seven states for its upcoming 4,000-MW ultra mega power project (UMPP) in Sasan.
Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Power (R-Power) has roped in international consultancy firm Ernst & Young (E&Y) to upgrade its Sasan ultra-mega power project (UMPP) in Madhya Pradesh to conform to the norms for receiving carbon credits.
The power ministry is considering asking Reliance Energy to match the price offered by the Lanco Infratech-Globeleq consortium for power from the Sasan ultra mega power project.
The recommendation from E&Y has been made even as its own role in clearing the original bid has come in for censure.
An environmentalist group has applauded the Export Import Bank of the United States for its decision to not to finance Reliance's coal-fired power plant in Sasan in Madhya Pradesh on the grounds that it would emit too much carbon dioxide, thus detrimental to the environment.
Power Finance Corp official overseeing project eased out.
Core concerns in 5 villages that cover India's largest power plant.
The company emerged successful in the revised evaluated bids for the project.
Reliance Power Limited, the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), plans to invest about Rs 2,500-3,000 crore (Rs 25-30 billion) over a period of three years, to develop three coal mines to fuel its Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project in Madhya Pradesh. Reliance Power currently has access to coal reserves of about one billion tonnes in India and abroad, including a coal mine in Indonesia, which it acquired recently.
The court of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Aniruddha Mayee directed the state government to file an affidavit and kept the matter for the next hearing on October 12.
One of the teams rescued two lion cubs that had fallen into an open well in Jasadhar Range of Gir East division during the cyclone's landfall on Thursday evening, the official said.
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Politicians from Maharashtra, among others, had allegedly enjoyed their stay free of cost at Shirdi Saibaba Trust's guest house during most of the tenure of its chairman and former Congress MLA Jayant Sasane, an RTI query has revealed.
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has said the first 660-Mw unit of Reliance Power's 3,960-Mw Sasan ultra mega power project (UMPP) could not achieve its "full load" in March 2013 and rejected the company's plea to appoint an independent technical committee to look into the readiness of that unit.
Niira Radia had said friends in high places enabled favourable EGoM decision on Sasan coal diversion, a charge staunchly denied by Reliance Power.
Coal ministry says Sasan coal cannot be used for other plant.
Ravindra Jadeja has been accused of violating wildlife rules after the Indian all-rounder clicked pictures in front of a lion pride at the Sasan Gir forest in Gujarat. The Gujarat Forest Department on Thursday ordered an inquiry after pictures were posted on social. Jadeja and his wife Riva can be seen posing in front of lions.
Flaying post-bid concessions to Reliance Power, the CAG on Friday said the Anil Ambani-led firm got undue benefit of Rs 29,033 crore (Rs 290.33 billion) when the government allowed use of surplus coal from blocks alloted to Sasan power plant for its other projects.
The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance government has given environment clearance to five projects since it took charge on May 26.
R-Power had produced the test certificate claiming March 30, 2013, as the date of commissioning.
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