Congress’ Jairam Ramesh slams NITI Aayog over ‘call for power plants to pause installing sulphur reducing gear’

Congress’ Jairam Ramesh slams NITI Aayog over ‘call for power plants to pause installing sulphur reducing gear’

New Delhi, June 02 (ANI): Congress leader Jairam Ramesh addresses a press conference, at AICC HQ in New Delhi on Sunday. (ANI Photo) | Photo Credit: ANI Congress leader and former Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday (November 1, 2024) said sulphur dioxide emissions from power plants contributed significantly to air pollution and any … Read more

General Electric’s LM2500 marine engines to power Navy’s next gen missile vessels

General Electric’s LM2500 marine engines to power Navy’s next gen missile vessels

Six LM2500 marine gas turbine engine kits will be delivered by GE Aerospace for assembly and test by HAL Industrial and Marine Gas Turbine Division in Bengaluru. Photo: geaerospace.com Engine manufacturer General Electric announced that its LM2500 marine engines have been chosen to power Indian Navy’s Next Generation Missile Vessels (NGMV) being built by Cochin … Read more

A re-balancing of India’s great power relations

A re-balancing of India’s great power relations

Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s participation in the sixth Quad Leaders’ Summit in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. on September 21, 2024 has raised further hopes of consolidating security cooperation among the “four leading maritime democracies in the Indo-Pacific”. Nevertheless, it was India’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval’s trip to Russia in early September for the BRICS … Read more

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