West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that at least 72 people have died due to Cyclone Amphan and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the affected districts and provide help to 'rebuild those areas from scratch'
Vortex Engineering has launched one of India's greatest initiatives to extend banking services to several parts of rural India.
Coca-Cola India had stepped up its innovation push to be future-ready, company president for India and South West Asia, Venkatesh Kini, said
The squeaky horn that sounds like a swarm bees has raised quite a furore among football fanatics.
At least 23 people were killed when a suicide bomber struck during a protest organised by the Jamaat-e-Islami in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, hours after a blast outside a police-run school killed a young boy.
Hyderabad recorded the highest temperature in last 20 years of 45 degrees on Thursday. Andhra Pradesh has been in the grip of heat wave for the last three days.
Katiyabaaz is as riveting and gritty as it is wildly funny at times; a must watch, says Sonil Dedhia.
Why did such a 'socially conscientious' people adapt to cash-for-votes and the like, as fish to water? N Sathiya Moorthy offers an explanation.
Poverty prevented Kami finishing his studies as a child. At 68, he goes to school six days a week to complete his studies and escape a lonely home life.
Modelled on TV guidance channels worldwide, What's On India launched India's first consumer TV guidance channel in December 2009.
The scribe wrote on Facebook that at a Madrassa she went to in Kozhikode, an 'ustaad' or teacher called all the boys and touched them inappropriatel
Industrialists and traders of Punjab have adopted a novel method to convince state politicians to provide them with adequate electricity--flowers.
Coal India is transporting extra volumes of coal to power plants ahead of a five-day worker union strike that threatens to cut much of its per-day output of 1.6 million tonnes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to open commercial coal mining to private players is a key step towards bringing order to the country's chaotic power industry and ending the chronic blackouts that impede its economic rise.
Celebrating Aamir Khan and his 55 popular songs on his 55th birthday
The attack, worth over Rs 50,000 crore ($10 billion), has been in the works for quite some time but actually began in July last year, when the Revised Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme was approved by the Cabinet. Given the problems that were faced by the original APDRP programme, the focus this time around is on 'actual demonstrable performance in terms of sustained loss reduction'.
Karim Benzema scored twice after the interval with a penalty and a header from a corner to give Santiago Solari's side a 3-1 lead, after Raphael Varane struck in the 34th minute to cancel out Anuar Tuhami's goal for Valladolid five minutes earlier.
The cycle rickshaws have been replaced by battery-run 'totos'. These 'totos' strangely are not registered with the regional transport authority but by the strange rules of West Bengal administration are 'empanelled' with the ruling party, says Keya Sarkar.
Reacting to the hike in power rates, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on discoms would ascertain the lack of funds as stated by power distribution companies.
Temperature in the national capital touched 45.1 degree Celsius on Sunday while it was 47.8 degree C in and around Palam airport making it the hottest day in 62 years giving no respite to people reeling under a blistering heat wave.
Why life for an average Indian is a real struggle right from morning till evening or even mid night as compared to his counterparts in the west. Take a look...
Tamil Nadu is facing a shortage of 2,000-2,500 Mw. The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) has proposed a compulsory two-day power holiday for both heavy and light industries due to the ongoing power crisis in the state.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday gave deadline of one week to them to address the problem of outages saying government will not hesitate to cancel their licenses if they fail to comply with the directive.
Property developers are setting up their own mini-power plants to meet captive requirements of the malls or residential complexes they are building. Electricity generated from these power plants, which will use compressed natural gas (CNG) as fuel, will be 40 per cent cheaper than state electricity board supplies, making it an attractive investment option rather than a perceived additional cost.
Tamil Nadu, the best-performing state, managed to do this in 63 days. Land allotment took 156 days nationally and 28 days in Himachal Pradesh. Environmental approval took 91 days nationally and 25 days in Chhattisgarh.
Some relatives of those dead alleged that those on life support like ventilator and oxygen could not be continuously given such backup as the generator room was flooded.
Showing Gandhigiri, West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi went without light on Wednesday, after deciding to have voluntary power cuts at Raj Bhavan, triggering a spat with the Communist Party of India Marxist, which felt the gubernatorial post should be abolished. The action of Mahatma Gandhi's grandson came as an embarrassment to the Left government, with whom he had a run in last year, on its handling of the Nandigram issue.
A late strike by Vimal Pariyar helped Mohammedan Sporting garner three points with a 1-0 win over bottom-rung Vasco SC in the seventh round encounter of the ONGC I-League at the floodlit Yuba Bharati Krirangan on Friday.
A weak monsoon and the subsequent shortage of electricity has pushed Bangalore into an unprecedented fuel crisis.
With safety being top priority this Eid in view of recent bomb blasts in Pakistan, most Pakistanis played safe and stayed indoors, but -- like always it was difficult to dampen their sense of humour.
China's Wu Minxia will make her bid to become the most decorated female Olympic diver at the Rio de Janeiro Games.
Communist Party of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu on Friday said West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi's action of self-imposed power cuts at the Raj Bhavan was not in consonance with the dignity of the post and that he was 'acting like a child'. He said that it was an act against the state government, adding that he should have consolted with the state's power minister on the matter.
'What we really need is a revival of storytelling at bedtime.'
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Students from nine states joined through video conference.
Temperatures have soared to 50.3 degrees Celsius, but no deaths from the heat have been reported from Churu.
Shocks were also felt in Pakistan, Lebanon, Kuwait and Turkey, news agencies in those countries reported.
"We have just kept skeleton staff at the plant and rest have been sent home," Deepak G Inamdar, a senior engineer at the plant had told Gulf News over phone from Sur on Wednesday.
Check out a few interesting things that happened on the first day of the tour.
In Bharatana, the Samajwadi Party chief seems to have an easy ride.
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