Nineteen employees of National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited (NHPC) were trapped inside a power house for hours on Sunday as a landslide blocked normal and emergency tunnels of......
The on-going mass agitation against the construction of 2000 MW Subansiri lower hydroelectric project along the Assam-Arunachal border has intensified. Anti-dam protestors have resisted the......
Twenty labourers who were trapped in a tunnel at the Parvati hydel power project site, 60km from Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, have been rescued, according to reports.The labourers of Patel Engineering......
After successfully blocking construction at the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation's 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric Project at Gerukamukh in Dhemaji district of Assam, the anti-dam......
After two days of temporary suspension of blockade programme by the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti in the two districts of Lakhimpur and Dhemaji on the north bank of the Brahmaputra in Assam, the......
The next few months are likely to see a flurry of power utility public offers as the power ministry has set December 31, 2006 as deadline for listing seven public sector undertakings under it.These......
The power ministry is working on a strategy to offload stakes in public sector companies under its purview through initial public offers.While the National Thermal Power Corporation issue is......
The state-owned power sector utilities are on a debt-raising spree to sustain capacity augmentation.The National Thermal Power Corporation, the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation and......
Have you heard of an electronic exchange to trade electricity? Soon, online power exchanges will be a reality in India. Most probably, to begin with, two power exchanges will come up in the country......
The power ministry has criticised public sector undertakings for their inability to deploy the funds allocated to them towards meeting the capacity addition target of 41,000 MW for the current Plan......