Last month, Sena activists had gone on a rampage, attacking MSEB offices at a number of places across the state protesting frequent power cuts.
State-run National Thermal Power Corporation on Monday said it plans to set up a 900 MW coal- or LNG-based power plant in Sri Lanka.\n\n
The electricity board lost Rs 1,111.35 crore owing to irregularities.
An analyst who tracks investments for a Singapore-based foreign institutional investor, said, "The story doing the round in stock market circles is that companies that have been allocated coal blocks can make a lot of money by selling power at merchant rates."
Indian Railways on Tuesday entered into a joint venture agreement with the NTPC for setting up 1000 MW captive power plant at Nabinagar in Bihar, a move that can help the exchequer save Rs 400-600 crore (Rs 4-6 billion) annually on power purchase from state electricity boards.
The Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board has employed 'musclemen' to recover towering dues from customers in the city under its new policy 'Muscle Power Recovery.'
Both the buildings have been evacuated. Sniffer dogs and a bomb disposal squad have been pressed into service.\n\n\n\n\n\n
The victory gave the defending champions a berth in the last eight of the Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament.
Private sector giants Reliance Energy, Torrent Power, Jaiprakash Group and L&T are among the companies that have bid for setting up hydro power plants in Himachal Pradesh.\n\n
Kuldeep Kaur, wife of an assistant lines man of the Punjab State Electricity Board and a resident of Dhaleke village in Moga, has won Rs 1.5 crore Punjab State Baissakhi Bumper lottery.
The losses of state electricity boards have come down by a massive Rs 8,000 crore (Rs 80 billion) in 2003-04, thanks to the Centre's incentive-based initiative through accelerated power development and reform programme (APDRP).
Several cities in Maharashtra, including Satara, Kolhapur and Sangli, were affected due to power breakdown.
Mumbai was spared due to the immediate islanding by the Tata Power Company and was ensured power supply by TPC and Reliance's BSES.
Foreign lenders to Enron Corp's $2.9 billion stalled Dahbol power project said on Thursday they had launched arbitration proceedings in a London court to recover their loans and exit from the Indian project.
Offshore lenders to bankrupt Enron Corp's $2.9 billion Indian power plant in Dabhol want to terminate the power purchase agreement with Maharashtra State Electricity Board, a statement from a consultant of the banks said.
The victory was the second from three matches for the army team, in the NFL
The protest over electricity crisis by the Bharatiya Janata Party in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand entered the third day even as senior party leader Yashwant Sinha and others did not apply for bail on Wednesday after they were arrested and remanded to judicial custody in connection with alleged assault of an electricity board official.
According to the Morcha, the demands which Delhi Chalo has been called include: MSP should be guaranteed as per C2+50 percent formula and, as promised, a law should be made to guarantee it; all the farmers should be made debt free, and all agricultural loan must be waived.
The process to restart the 2184-MW Dabhol power plant has received a jolt with promoters, GE and Bechtel, slapping an arbitration notice on Maharashtra State Electricity Board for recovery of Rs 26,000 crore (Rs 260 billion) towards investments and l
'Party workers sit outside polling booths and they know everything that is happening.' 'Besides, as a voter when you push the EVM button to vote there is a paper slip that comes out showing you who you voted for.'
Rising energy demand could tilt India's energy basket towards fossil fuels from coal to oil, natural gas.
'He was a practical person who ensured that he thought about the common man, animals, the fact that they have a life and they have to be respected.'
Indicating that it would take some more time to restart the controversial Phase I of Dabhol Power project in Maharashtra, Power Minister Anant Geete said in Lok Sabha.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha and 54 others were remanded to judicial custody by a local court on Tuesday after they refused to seek bail in a case of alleged assault of a Jharkhand State Electricity Board official.
Speaking in the assembly, Fadnavis said a pen drive he had submitted contained a conversation between Waqf Board members Mohammad Arshad Khan and Mudasir Lambe.
The Tata Group is one of the very few Indian MNCs which has carved out a niche in China's highly competitive market, notes Rup Narayan Das.
CLP saw early that the pollution caused by China's rush for industrial growth would lead inevitably to demands for cleaner electricity.
Eyes investments of Rs 31,000 cr in research and manufacturing of electric vehicles
With the fight now having been taken to the seizure of nuclear plants, it is one more warning to Europe that this prolonged war could end up with disastrous consequences, observes Rashme Sehgal
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