15 dead, many hospitalised as north India reels under punishing heatwave

Swathes of northern and eastern India remained in the grip of a punishingly long heatwave on Wednesday, increasing heat stroke casualties and prompting the Centre to issue advisory to hospitals to......

Amid AP crisis, special team keeps watch on electricity grid

Amid anti-Telangana agitations impacting power supplies in Andhra Pradesh, the Union Power Ministry has set up a special team to monitor the functioning of electricity grid the state. The agitation......

Power overdraw by states caused July outage: Panel

Over drawing of electricity by northern states could be one of the reasons for the massive power failure last month that hit half of the country's population, according to the initial findings of a......

Mumbai power outage may have been handiwork of China: Report

Amidst the tense border tension between India and China, a Chinese government-linked group of hackers targeted India's critical power grid system through malware, a United States company has said......

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,......

Reliance Power gets CERC rap, may lose tariff benefit

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has said the first 660-Mw unit of Reliance Power's 3,960-Mw Sasan ultra mega power project (UMPP) could not achieve its "full load" in March......