BJP overnight meet to discuss LS candidates focuses on lost seats

The Bharatiya Janata Party's Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting, attended by senior leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to hold deliberations to finalise the first list of......

You Can Become Chief Minister Only if You Have The MLAs

The two main factions in Karnataka's Congress party -- one led by Siddaramaiah and the other by D K Shivakumar -- are both contenders for the chief ministership.Both groups have fought hard to get......

Countdown to counting in high-stake polls keeps all parties on tenterhooks

Political parties were bracing for the assembly election results on Thursday in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and politically volatile Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, sending out feelers......

Baghel, Singh Deo back off but loyalists' spat on in Chhattisgarh

The tussle for power between Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and health minister TS Singh Deo appears to have quietened at the top, but the feud is very much visible at the lower level......

Maharashtra may take AAP route on power

Committee set up by state govt considering reduction in ratesA day after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi reduced electricity charges by 50 per cent for those consuming up to 400 units......

R-Power's tariff earnings hinge on commission date

The problems for Reliance Power’s (R-Power’s) Sasan plant in Madhya Pradesh, the country’s first ultra mega power project (UMPP), based on domestic coal, does not seem to end,......

Adani Power gets CERC breather on Mundra tariff

In a landmark order, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), the country’s power sector regulator, has allowed a “compensatory tariff” for Adani Power’s......

Power ministry mulls review of regulators

The power ministry is considering changes in the Electricity Act, 2003, so that a government committee can review the performance of regulators and remove them for non-performance.The ministry is......