The state-run power utility, the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (WBSEDCL), has extended the last date for payment of electricity bills to April 30 in view of the virus outbreak...
All work and no play does boys and girls no good; nor does having to do all that work in discomfort, or in the dark. And yet, these seem to be the sort of conditions that the students of more than 40 ...
Fallen and dilapidated power poles in the city are posing serious threat to life, but Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd’s (JBVNL) couldn’t bother less. In Mango, an electric pole with cables attach...
Based on a survey of 8,282 respondents from 180 urban districts, an Indian portal reported that nine per cent of urban Indian households are likely to buy an electric vehicle in 2020, mostly due to en...
The state electricity regulatory commission on Friday asked Tata Steel to hike power tariffs from the next financial year (2020-21).Chairing a public hearing at Tube Maker’s Club on the power tariff...
India’s infrastructure sector contracted 1.5 per cent in November against a growth of 3.3 per cent a year ago. The infrastructure index, comprising eight industries, has reported negative growth si...
CESC may earn Rs 1,600 crore in revenues from electricity distribution franchisees outside Calcutta as the company enters Maharashtra, the third state beyond Bengal.The company has won a 20-year contr...
In September, Arvind Subramanian demitted office as chief economic adviser and flew off to take a visiting lectureship in Kennedy School of Harvard University. He is lecturing there on why some develo...
CESC has scrapped the plan to unbundle the power generation and distribution business after waiting for more than two years to get an approval from the state electricity regulator.The board of the com...
The district administration convened a meeting here on Wednesday as part of an attempt to recover electricity dues to the tune of Rs 116 crore which piled up over the past five years because of a call...