In a consolation to the people of Seemandhra, reeling under an indefinite power strike, the electricity employees today decided to suspend their agitation for an unspecified period. The decision from the JAC of electricity employees came after thr
Batting ace Sachin Tendulkar will finally draw an end to an illustrious career after his 200th Test match against the West Indies. According to a media release issued by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Tendulkar has conta
In a move intended to take mobile banking to every nook and corner of the country, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has constituted a technical committee which would suggest the right technology for mobile fund transfer. The committe
It hasn’t been a good year – rather, two years – for West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra. It was only in August 30 last year that he was assigned by Mamata Banerjee to head a group of ministers tasked with putting Haldia Petr
Fourteen years after the first super cyclone hit Odisha in 1999 claiming 22,000 lives and destroying property worth crores, the state waits with bated breath, another one to strike the state on October 12. While there have been many false
This is the story of a government department that has seen a 360-degree turn in just over a year. Known as a poor and lackadaisical performer for years, Bihar’s building construction department is on a building spree these days. Whil
Dogged by land acquisition and environmental issues, POSCO, the largest FDI steel project in the country at Jagatsinghpur in Odisha which was hanging under fire is all set to renew its MOU with the Odisha State Government in November this year. Th
Despite reports from New Delhi that senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh has said that electricity for emergency services has been restored in Seemandhra region and union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde saying that power could be delivered to An
The net-savvy voter will have a lot of say in the outcome of the next year’s general elections. As many as 37 percent of urban Indian voters are regular internet users, according to a Google India study released on Tuesday. Th
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been living in a policy grey zone. The body, headed by former Infosys honcho Nandan Nilekani, came up following an executive fiat when the UPA thought an all-purpose smart card to slash the subs
With the strike by power sector employees agitating against the creation of Telangana state showing no signs of abating, power crisis has sneaked into Hyderabad as well, with the state capital witnessing two hours of outage every day. The
M Veerappa Moily is a man on a mission. Though it’s another matter that half the time Moily himself is unsure about the nature and merit of his mission, the union petroleum minister is a politician who fits the pre-liberalisation 1980s&rsquo
As the situation in Andhra Pradesh reaches a boiling point with a cauldron of repressed anger against the formation of Telangana threatening to reach a point of no return, one set of politicians who have perhaps lost more sleep due to anxiety than
Given the projected growth of economy and the expected rise in energy demands along with it, India aims to add 54,000 MW electricity to its generation capacity. India’s consumption per hour is 700 kWh/Cap while the same of th
Anti-bifurcation protests continue in all the districts of Seemaandhra region of Andhra Pradesh. Despite curfew in Vizainagaram town and shoot-at-sight orders issued by district authorities, violence is still going on. Agitators remain undeterred
Jayashree Thakur, additional district magistrate (ADM) of Bhagalpur in Bihar, should not have been shocked and surprised after all. In July, the economic offence unit (EOU) of Bihar police raided her home and unearthed assets worth more than `20 c
Even with the government pulling out newer tricks from its hat every now and then to beat the slowdown and boost demand, the Indian industry continues to struggle, according to a survey by industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
With the decision to pick up majority stake in the 1,320 MW Sarguja power project in Chhattisgarh, NHPC is all set to directly compete with NTPC, the country`s biggest thermal power producer. The project was earlier proposed to be developed jointl
Editor`s note: Beginning his indefinite fast to protest the union cabinet`s approval for bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh to pave way for a separatestate of Telangana on Saturday (October 5), Jagan Mohan Reddy said the Congress-led UPA government
To meet the country’s burgeoning energy demands, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Oil India limited (OIL) have enlisted the services of foreign firms to hunt for shale oil and gas. According to the US energy information adm
