High nitrate levels have been found in groundwater of 440 districts across India, with 20 per cent of the samples collected exceeding the permissible nitrate concentration, the Central Ground Water......
'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......
Amid rising air pollution caused by the burning of crop residue, the Bihar government has decided to identify farmers who are indulging in this practice and put up their names at the block offices,......
'The power sector accounts for much of the financial burden of state governments in India.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com State governments have announced over Rs 1 trillion in......
Here's some good news for millions of power-starved farmers in Bihar. The state government has directed the Bihar State Electricity Board to ensure at least six to eight hours of power supply for......
State-run BHEL on Tuesday said it has bagged a Rs 2,854 crore (Rs 28.54 billion) contract for setting up a 1,980 MW thermal power project in Bihar. "BHEL has bagged a contract for supply......
In power starved Bihar, district authority of the state's only industrial town Begusarai has cautioned the state government that the law and order situation could deteriorate if power supply was......
Bihar is heading for a major power crisis with 16,000 power workers and engineers deciding to go on an indefinite strike from Tuesday in support of their demands for unfreezing DA and shelving the......
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.NTPC will submit a proposal to the Sri Lankan government to set......
The story of Sahara India Pariwar founder Subrata Roy, who died in Mumbai on November 14 aged 75, is the stuff of movies - of a spectacular rise and an equally spectacular fall. Photograph:......
The 18 year old from an impoverished family in Chennai won the Carrom World Cup, but the title has not changed either her or her father, an autorickshaw driver. IMAGE: Khazima M Basha during the......