The fire brigade and the CESC have to think about old houses with electric meter boxes below staircases and close to exits, Firhad Hakim, the chairperson of the CMC’s board of administrators, sa...

The state government had tweeted on Sunday, quoting a CESC report, that power supply was restored to several parts of Calcutta, including Regent Estate in Jadavpur.On Monday, residents of Regent Estat...

CESC on Sunday started sharing details of its post-Amphan power restoration activities — being undertaken on a “war-footing” — and reported completion of restoration of power to 92 per cent of...

After protests in several cyclone-affected areas of West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday urged people to have patience as the administration was working tirelessly to restore water ...

A CESC official has expressed the hope that underground cables will protect power supply its coverage area in the city during the storm but added that the main concern revolved around snapped branches...

CESC linesmen working at Regent Estate to make permanent arrangements for power supply were detained in a hall for four hours on Saturday when some employees of the utility told the team to leave for ...

Several cash collection centres of CESC remained shut on Wednesday because of poor network, officials of the power utility said. A resident of an apartment in Kasba found one such centre, near the Sie...

Around 10 families in Ranikuthi have been struggling without electricity since Cyclone Amphan ravaged the city a week ago.On Monday, supply was restored to most of their neighbours’ houses but not t...

A fire at an 11KV distribution centre of CESC on Friday evening caused a power outage in phases across several parts of the city’s southern and eastern fringes.The blackout, that made the ongoing lo...

Residents of Kestopur and Rajarhat were out on the streets on Thursday to protest the power cut in their homes since Wednesday evening when the city was hit by a squall.Officials from neither the civi...