High nitrate levels have been found in groundwater of 440 districts across India, with 20 per cent of the samples collected exceeding the permissible nitrate concentration, the Central Ground Water......
Delhi's air quality took a turn for the worse on Monday, with areas like Dwarka, Mundka and Najafgarh recording a maximum AQI of 500 in the afternoon. IMAGE: Joggers at the Kartavya Path near......
'The power sector accounts for much of the financial burden of state governments in India.' Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com State governments have announced over Rs 1 trillion in......
Farmers' outfit Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) on Sunday said it has given a call for "Delhi Chalo" on February 26 with seven major demands, and in the run-up to it, 15 more "Kisan......
Rajasthan is reeling under a huge financial burden with the state's debt having gone beyond Rs 5.59 lakh crores.Rajasthan has increased expenditure on education by 203.4 percent, by 105.4 percent......
'The Akali government is not responsible for the Punjab power crisis as Mr Sidhu is saying.' IMAGE: Police use water cannons to disperse Aam Aadmi Party workers who were staging a gherao at Punjab......
Dubai-based Coal and Oil Company is planning to set up a 500-Mw coastal thermal power project in the country. It is also considering acquiring a stake in an Indian coalmine.The locations being......
How much time do you spend paying your electricity, water, credit card, phone, cellphone and other miscellaneous bills?Do you usually drop your water and electricity bill in your local neighborhood......
Easy Bill Pvt Ltd, a Hero group company which will offer one-stop solution to utility bill payments to households, commenced operations on Tuesday.A wholly owned entity of the group, it announced......
Power consumers in the state will have to shell out more, with regulator Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC)announcing an average tariff hike of 12.08 per cent.The hike, the......
'I am looking for another career option like modelling.' IMAGE: Harmilan Bains says she is now exploring another career-option like modelling as her athletics career is 'uncertain'. Photograph:......
Holders Western Railway began the defence of their title in splendid fashion, whipping Punjab State Electricity Board, Patiala, 6-1, to enter the quarter-finals in the 44th Bombay Gold Cup Hockey......
Haryana's Namdhari XI and South Central Railway, Secunderabad, knocked out top local outfits Central Railway and Indian Navy by identical 2-1 margins in the 44th Bombay Gold Cup hockey tournament......
Combined Sports Authority of India XI rallied from a 0-2 deficit to put it across Oil and Natural Gas Corporation 5-2 in an all-Delhi second round encounter in the 44th Bombay Gold Cup hockey......
Fourteen-timechampions East Bengal put up an inspiredshow totrounce Air India 4-0 in a Group 'B' quarter-final league match of the Durand Cup football tournament at the Ambedkar stadium in Delhi on......