Power tariff hike: amid uproar, consumers urge regulatory commission to reject KSEB proposals

Power tariff hike: amid uproar, consumers urge regulatory commission to reject KSEB proposals

A public hearing held here on Wednesday on the proposals to revise electricity tariffs intermittently relapsed into shouting matches between sections of the participants, even as a general demand arose that the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) reject the proposals which include a first-of-its-kind ‘summer tariff.’ The hearing was the fourth and final one … Read more

Angry over 7-hour power outage, Telangana man climbs pole to restore electricity

Angry over 7-hour power outage, Telangana man climbs pole to restore electricity

In a desperate attempt to address a prolonged power outage and the inaction of local authorities, a man in Telangana’s Mahabubabad district took the risky step of restoring electricity himself. The incident unfolded after the town experienced a seven-hour power cut, leaving residents without power and receiving no communication or assistance from the electricity department. … Read more

India allows Nepal to export additional 251 MW of power

India allows Nepal to export additional 251 MW of power

India has allowed Nepal to export an additional 251 MW of electricity to the country. Photo for representational purpose | Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan India has allowed Nepal to export an additional 251 MW of electricity to the country, marking the first time the Himalayan nation will supply power to Bihar under a medium-term sales … Read more

Telangana Deputy CM asks power utilities staff to ensure quality power supply

Telangana Deputy CM asks power utilities staff to ensure quality power supply

Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu holding a meeting with senior officers of discoms working within the limits of the GHMC and surrounding municipal corporations, at TGSPDCL office in Hyderabad on Thursday. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu, who handles the portfolios of Finance and Energy, asked the engineers, … Read more

Congress vows JPC to investigate ‘Modani MegaScam’ if INDIA bloc comes to power

Congress vows JPC to investigate ‘Modani MegaScam’ if INDIA bloc comes to power

Congress Party senior leader Jairam Ramesh. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on May 22 said the “tempo of revelations about the Modani MegaScam has also picked up as the election momentum of the INDIA coalition accelerates”. An investigation by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), reported … Read more

Will complete Godavari-Penna interlinking project if elected to power, says Kanna Laksminarayana

Will complete Godavari-Penna interlinking project if elected to power, says Kanna Laksminarayana

TDP Sattenapalle Assembly constituency candidate Kanna Lakshminarayana. | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao Alleging that YSRCP Minister Ambati Rambabu failed to develop and address the persisting problems of people in the Sattenapalli Assembly constituency for the past five years, TDP candidate and former Minister Kanna Lakshminarayana has assured that he would solve the irrigation and drinking … Read more

Telangana power engineers elected as AIPEF office bearers felicitated

Telangana power engineers elected as AIPEF office bearers felicitated

The TSPEA felicitating P. Rathnakar Rao, elected as general secretary of the AIPEF, in Hyderabad on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Telangana State Power Engineers’ Association (TSPEA) on Monday felicitated its members elected as the office-bearers of the All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) at the federation’s executive committee meeting held at Chennai … Read more

IPL 2024: Yash Thakur, Krunal Pandya power LSG to first-ever win over GT

IPL 2024: Yash Thakur, Krunal Pandya power LSG to first-ever win over GT

Yash Thakur stepped in the absence of Mayank Agarwal with a sensational five-wicket haul as LSG ended its four-match losing streak against GT in the Indian Premier League with a 33–run win at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium on Sunday. Earlier in the day, Marcus Stoinis scored a solid fifty, … Read more

Covid inquiry: Jeremy Miles says Welsh schools were shut without legal power – BBC News

Covid inquiry: Jeremy Miles says Welsh schools were shut without legal power – BBC News

Miles is grilled about the controversial “stay local” guidance which came in to replace “stay at home” messaging as infections eased in May 2020. The inquiry hears the Welsh government felt “it was not possible to legislate to define local, as it would mean different things in different parts of Wales”, for example in rural … Read more

Regular upkeep of infra making uninterrupted power supply possible: NPDCL CMD

Regular upkeep of infra making uninterrupted power supply possible: NPDCL CMD

CMD of TSNPDCL K. Varun Reddy. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement hyderabad Chairman and Managing Director of Northern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Ltd (TSNPDCL) Karnati Varun Reddy has attributed the quality power supply without any interruptions being provided to the consumers in the areas covered by the Discom to the better upkeep (maintenance) of … Read more