13 dead, over 81,000 evacuated as Cyclone Gaja batters Tamil Nadu

Cyclone Gaja ripped through Nagapattinam early Friday uprooting trees and snapping power lines leaving a trail of destruction in coastal districts besides claiming 13 lives and flooding standing......

Jaya's emissaries to meet PM to seek more power

A delegation of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MPs will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to seek more supply of electricity for Tamil Nadu from the central pool. During the......

'People want everything on the menu on their plate'

'The government is not insisting that customers must eat a certain quantity only.' Customers can ask for extra portions.''It is dictatorial, but we welcome it because it is one step towards ending......

FULL TEXT of PM Modi's I-Day address

Following is the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 73rd Independence Day.  IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation......

Power: Extend 10-year tax holiday

Indian power sector with an installed power generation capacity of 258.7 GW (excluding captive generation capacity of 40.7 GW) as end of Jan 2015 has added about 13.6 GW in first 10 months of......

Electricity plan: Six states breach deadline

The Union government's six-year initiative to unbundle state electricity boards into separate entities for power generation, transmission, distribution and trading businesses is set to be delayed......

'Privatising power distribution can curb thefts'

K Vasudevan, director, Alstom and chairman of the Energy Cell of Confederation of Indian Industry, believes that the next five years are very crucial for India. Asserting that most electricity......

Day 9: Aaj ki Taaza Khabar

I-T lens on current account deposits over Rs 12.5 lakh. All the news and more post demonetisation. IMAGE: A man gets his finger inked as he exchanges his old notes in Mumbai. Photograph: Sahil......