As the two-day nationwide strike called by trade unions began on Monday, the Maharashtra government has invoked the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act or MESMA barring employees of......
Thousands of employees of three state-owned power companies went on a 72-hour strike on Wednesday to protest against the privatisation of power firms even as the government invoked the Maharashtra......
Many pockets of Mumbai plunged into darkness on Monday evening in a power outage caused by what was termed as a "technical fault". The outage comes amid a series of disruptions in power supply......
Tripping at an important substation feeding power to the megapolis led to a power cut of over one hour in many parts of the country's financial capital on Tuesday, aggravating woes for people......
A major power outage hit pockets of the financial capital on Sunday, halting the city lifeline local trains for over an hour and inconveniencing residents on a weekend. IMAGE: Mumbai had faced a......
Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission's order rejecting the state power utility Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltdrequest to increase load-shedding is likely to affect......
In a setback to Tata Power, the Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the company’s challenge to the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (MERC’s) decision to award a Rs......
JSW Energy, the group company of Jindal South West headed by Sajjan Jindal, will launch its initial public offer within two months to raise Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion) to fund 3,000 Mw of power......
Close on the heels of last month's floods and the near-epidemic that followed, Mumbai is now facing load shedding during peak hours.The city may have to face up to six hours of load shedding, if......
The Rs 12,000-crore (Rs 120 billion) Dabhol power project will be split into separate power and LNG companies in an effort to revive the plant which was originally built by the now-bankrupt US......