IMAGE: A portion of the bridge over Beas river in Akhara Bazaar area of Kullu town collapses after the water level in the river increases due to heavy rainfall in the region. Photograph: ANI......
Disaster in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh can be blamed on myopic industrialisation, urbanisation and tourism policies. Advocates of indiscriminate urbanisation, industrialisation and tourism must......
Two persons were killed on Tuesday in North India due to heavy rains, which also disrupted normal life at many places in the region.The national capital received the season's highest rainfall which......
Power supply will be restored by 7 pm in most of the major cities hit by grid failure, Power Grid Corp chief R N Nayak said on Tuesday. In most of the major cities and towns electricity would be......
The threat of flash floods in Himachal has reduced substantially because of receding water levels of river Sutlej.Himachal Pradesh power minister Vidya Stokes told rediff.com on Monday that the......
Private power equipment providers have been complaining that they are losing out to cheaper competition from Chinese manufacturers. But B Prasada Rao, chairman and managing director of state-owned......
Delhi may buy around 300 Mw of power generated from NTPC's Kawas and Gandhar plants at a price of Rs 3.30-4 per unit to partly take care of its power shortage.As the Kawas and Gandhar plants do not......
Development is the buzzword today in emerging India, even as the country resolves to build an economically stronger, more efficient set-up which is devoid of bureaucratic delays.But that dream may......
The government expects public sector enterprises to generate at least 10 per cent more funds in 2003-04 than they did in 2002-03.Almost a quarter of these funds are likely to be raised from the......