With Tamil Nadu reeling under acute power shortage, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday squarely blamed the Congress-led UPA and her arch rival Dravida Munettra Kazhagam for the crisis but said load-shedding would gradually ease from next month and the state will be free of power cuts from end 2013.
Violent protests broke out on Wednesday in several areas in the national capital against power cuts which continued to make life difficult for people in the sweltering heat on a day the city recorded the highest electricity demand in the current year.
'Frankly, no one is prepared for Begin Again or whatever this is called.'
We bring you glimpses of what Mumbai is going through.
Large parts of New York City remained powerless even after superstorm Sandy receded late on Tuesday. The city, fabled for its towering skyscrapers and incandescent lights, has been reeling under a power cut.
Telugu Desam Party senior MLA Errabilli Dayakar Rao and scores of party workers were today arrested when they attempted to lay siege to Andhra Pradesh chief minister's camp residence, demanding lifting of power cuts.
Parts of south, east and northeast India are expected to get some relief from the blistering heat, with the onset of monsoon expected to take place over Kerala on Saturday.
The car in which the 57 year old actor, director was travelling hit a roadside tree near Shahkot in Nakodar area of the district around 1 am, Bhatti's associate Vinod Sharma told PTI in Chandigarh.
This capital city is witnessing around two hours of daily power cut, while the outskirts as well and rural parts are reeling under outages of up to 16 hours a day.
More than 20 hours after the country's worst power failure, the three major electricity grids that had collapsed have been restored, Power Grid said on Wednesday.
The country faced a major power crisis for the second consecutive day as three grids serving northern, eastern and northeastern regions failed on Tuesday afternoon, leading to 200 coal miners getting trapped in West Bengal and throwing normal life out of gear in 22 states.
Captain Virat Kohli determinedly led India's fightback on an engrossing day two on Saturday, blunting Australia's bowling attack to leave the second Test hanging in the balance.
The bandh called by YSR Congress on Friday to protest the unprecedented power cuts in Andhra Pradesh evoked lukewarm response as police cracked down on the party rank and file across the state.
179 million debit cards were issued during December 2016 to June 2018. A mere 2,000 ATMs were opened in the same period.
'I can finally tell my father that he need not go fix tiles in other people's homes.'
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said all families in Puri and in those parts of Khurda, which had been 'extremely severely affected' in the storm, will get 50 kg of rice, Rs 2,000 in cash and polythene sheets, if covered under the Food Security Act (FSA).
Several people posted scathing comments on social media to register their anger.
Areas in East and Central Delhi face a blackout risk from Saturday as the State-run National Thermal Power Corporation on Friday rejected the Delhi government's plea not to stop electricity supply to the BSES Yamuna Power Ltd for defaulting on payments.
battling half-century from JP Duminy and a test best 46 not out from tailender Vernon Philander led South Africa's fightback as they closed on 262 for seven on the first day of the third and final test on Thursday.
India's economy is running out of power. Separate the markets for base- and peak-load power consumption, says Shyam Saran.
Wondering why rail traffic congestion does not ease, power cuts are frequent or why mining continues to be a laggard despite investments? The answer to all such questions is cost overruns.
The battle for a separate state is expected to get uglier in Andhra Pradesh with pro-Telangana activists planning a power shutdown in Hyderabad next week. The Telangana Rastriya Samithi, which is leading the agitation, has been meeting with electricity board officials to plan the shutdown. There will be a power cut in Hyderabad next week onwards. This is one of the many protests before a rail roko movement starts from September 24.
The government started promoting cashless transactions but forgot that it needs infrastructure.
He was asked to furnish a personal bail bond of Rs 50,000 in the case of assault and of Rs 20,000 in the other case.
The top court called the pollution in Delhi-NCR as atrocious and said no one is safe even inside homes. "It is too much. No one is safe even inside their house. It is atrocious," the bench said.
Many places in Bihar face 20-hour power cuts everyday. Nearly half of rural Bihar has not even been electrified. But if Gyanesh Pandey has his way, the entire state will light up in the next few years. He shares his plans with A Ganesh Nadar
Mumbaikars travelling to work faced a harrowing time on Tuesday morning owing to waterlogging caused by the incessant rain since Monday night.
Mohun Bagan rode on Odafa Okolie's strike from a penalty to edge East Bengal 1-0 in their round 6 I-League fixture at the floodlit Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on Sunday.
Initial success has prompted telecom companies to hardsell the new service.
M I Khan reports on the grim power situation in Bihar
For years, students in Bihar have been sweating it out in classrooms, quite literally because of acute shortage of electricity. But the dim and dreary lessons will soon be a thing of the past. Schools in Bihar are all set to bring solar energy into the classroom, which means no more power cuts and computer classes will be a routine, reports MI Khan.
Despite all preparations almost complete for the 2012 London Olympics, the organisers of the 9.3 billion mega event are now faced with some genuine problem as London could suffer a solar storm during the Games.
In a matter of seconds, 55-year-old Sobha Ram Sehrawat, a resident of Parvatiya Colony in Old Faridabad, lost three members of his family on Wednesday night. "They had gone to the terrace because there was a power cut. My son and I had come down to check if there was something wrong with the meter. Within seconds, our house came crashing down," recalls Sehrawat. He is standing outside the cremation ground, where he has just cremated his wife, daughter and daughter-in-law.
The court also directed the Okhla MLA not to create any law and order problem in the area.
A Delhi Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan, arrested for allegedly threatening a woman after she visited his residence to raise the issue of power cuts, and sent him to judicial custody.
Indian American Namrata 'Nikki' Randhawa Haley, a daughter of Sikh immigrants from Punjab, is all set to be sworn in as the governor of South Carolina at a simple ceremony in Columbia, despite heavy snowfall in the area and forecasts of deteriorating weather.A state of emergency has been declared in South Carolina and as many as nine inches of snow has dropped in parts of the state.
While industrial units in Jalgaon, like most parts of rural Maharashtra, comes to a grinding halt due to load shedding, Jahangir's miraculous innovations have helped him move ahead in life.
The movement for a separate Telangana state has taken its toll on the industrial sector in Andhra Pradesh even though chief minister, Konijeti Rosaiah, asserts that agitations will not come in the way of state's development.
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