'Joro shoro se rescue operation chal raha hai.'
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'Hackers from China and UK were involved in the October 12 power outage,' Maharashtra power minister tells Rediff.com.
Scindia, who was also named as its Rajya Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh by the BJP, hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "competence and complete dedication" to serving India and asserted that the country's future is fully secure in his hands.
Kalikho Pul trekked a long way in his political career to become the eight chief minister of the state, a position he could hold only for six months.
Politician Jyotiraditya Scindia opened the show on Day one at AIFW Spring/Summer 2017.
The highest cap for the capacity would be 2 GW and can be set up in tranches at whatever location the project developer deems fit.
Mehta rose in the BJP ranks to become a corporator, legislator and an MP who defeated late Murli Deora from South Mumbai Lok Sabha constituency.
Minister of state for power Piyush Goyal will gift wooden-framed 'appreciation letters' to one million govt employees.
Amidst an outpour of grief, Tarishi Jain, the 19-year-old Indian girl who was killed along with 19 others in the Dhaka terror attack, was cremated in Gurgaon on Monday.
In the wake of major power grid collapse in north India, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of any such electricity failure in the state claiming that the "power system has been improvised".
The country is projected to see capacity addition of 76,000 MW during the next Five-Year Plan period ending March 2017, Minister of State for Power K C Venugopal said.
Power supply has been restored to several areas in Kashmir valley, which had plunged into darkness because of collapse of the power infrastructure due to heavy snowfall.
Union Minister of State for Power, Jyotiraditya Scindia has taken the onus of Congress' defeat in the recent Madhya Pradesh assembly polls.
Hassan Rouhani to offer Friday prayers in Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid.
Pointing at regulation of environment sector as a case in point, Goyal said the sector suffered due to "over regulation as regulators are not able to justify many decisions"
Rahul Gandhi has taken a break from his ongoing 'Navsarjan Yatra' in Gujarat to meet the families of victims of the explosion.
The Gujarat government has given its green signal to Nirma Ltd's controversial cement plant in Mahuva.
At present, India has an installed power generation capacity of over 1,51,000 MW, according to the data available on the ministry's website. Of this, hydel-power accounts for over 36,916 MW or nearly 25 per cent.
The new Ministers of State sworn in by President Ram Nath Kovind at a ceremony in the Rashtrapati Bhavan include Virendra Kumar, Anant Kumar Hegde and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, former IAS officers Alphons Kannanthanam and R K Singh, former diplomat Hardeep Puri and ex-Mumbai police chief Satyapal Singh. Two other new faces are Ashwini Kumar Choubey, a member of the Lok Sabha from Bihar, and Shiv Pratap Shukla from Uttar Pradesh.
The government on Monday said the coal supply at the thermal power stations is not adequate and the countrywide fuel stock has come down to half of the requirement norm of 22 million tonnes.
Sources said the minister of state for power has resigned from the Union council of ministers to contest the elections. Ramesh is currently a member of the Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh
The power ministry had approached the department of disinvestment in August 2007 for approval for NTPC's FPO, which could fetch the company nearly Rs 6,000 crore to part-finance its expansion programme.
Against the backdrop of increasing demand for uranium, the Centre has decided to go the extra mile to blunt the opposition to uranium mining in Meghalaya, which has the third largest reserves of the mineral after Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. The Department of Atomic Energy plans to bring out a "detailed white paper" on uranium mining that would be later placed before the Meghalaya Assembly.
The Meghalaya government has sought a nuclear power plant either in Meghalaya or any other suitable part of the Northeast India as a pre-condition for uranium mining in Meghalaya provided there would be no health or environment hazards because of the mining process.
National Hydroelectric Power Corporation will hit the market with an initial public offering by August this year and govt has assured the 'mini-ratna' status to the public sector unit. The IPO, scheduled for last year, got delayed as the company had not appointed non-official directors on time, a condition mandatory for any company to float an IPO. As per the guidelines of market regulator Sebi, 50 per cent of the board must be of non-official directors.
Jairam Ramesh has taken over as the minister of state for power. According to him, the Tenth Five-Year Plan was a disaster in terms of capacity addition & so was the Ninth Plan. Of the target of around 41,000 Mw, only 23,000 Mw was added. In effect, the first 2 years will see an addition of almost the same capacity as the entire Tenth Plan. But achieving the Eleventh Plan target of 80,000 Mw is going to be a big challenge. He hopes to see at least 3-4 more projects in a year.
Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Tuesday alleged that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party had got 10,000 burqas stitched for its 'Karyakarta Mahakumbh' to be held in Bhopal on Wednesday, for which a real estate company had paid Rs 42 lakh to the tailor, a charge denied by the BJP.
If even a fraction of the 175 GW target is achieved, India's reliance on coal and oil would be reduced, says expert.
Clickpower.in enables consumers and generators to explore the best available options.
Merger of the three key ministries is expected to help in removing the hurdles in these areas.
To increase gas availability for power plants, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has taken various steps.
The government was considering further modifications in mega power projects policy, aimed at promoting capacity addition through fiscal incentives, Minister of State for Power Jaywanti Mehta told the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
The government on Thursday claimed it was so far under no liability to honour claims worth over a billion dollars raised by overseas lenders and minority shareholders of the controversial Dabhol power plant.
The Maharashtra government has decided to allow MSEB to draw power from phase I of Dabhol Power Company at an optimum level of 83 per cent and tariff of about Rs 2.80 per KWH.
The United States has said there is erosion of confidence within the US business community about investment in the Indian power sector and it will be difficult to restore it unless structural issues are addressed.
In an unusual advice to Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked his party MPs not to show him respect by touching his feet or greeting other senior leaders by touching their feet.
On day 1, says retrospective taxation should be avoided; Sets up special investigation team to unearth black money.
Hard and unpopular decisions are needed - not just another round of financial repackaging to sort out the discom mess.
Over 75 per cent of India's daily coal output has been hit as the five-day strike by workers of state-run miners entered the second day on Wednesday, raising fears of disruption in power supplies.
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