Red-tapism in the Jharkhand Bijli Vitaran Nigam Ltd (JBVNL) has caused over 390 households to go without electricity in the Mango division of the power discom.  With no option left in hand, majo...

The Chandigarh administration on Tuesday evening invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act, banning strikes by the electricity department for six months after a protest by its employees plunged p...

Coal India has despatched more coal in this fiscal than the whole of the previous year. With still a month-and-a-half remaining in the fiscal. Coal India has supplied  575 million tonnes (mt) ti...

CESC had claimed in its submission to the WBERC that there has been a sharp increase in fuel prices and urged the regulator to consider an upward revision in tariff. “The financial years of 201...

The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, which had issued a diktat to the hill people to refrain from paying electricity bills during the 2007 Gorkhaland agitation, has made a 180-degree turn and informed the gove...

The West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation will upgrade its online single window portal for industry — Silpa Sathi — from a single point help desk to a single window application ga...

State-run power giant NTPC is mulling acquiring 5 per cent equity stake in Power Exchange of India Ltd (PXIL) that provides various electricity trading options, a senior official said.  The PXIL...

Coal India plans to boost stock at thermal power plants  to over 45 million tonnes (mt) from 20mt by March. The decision follows the coal stock crisis at thermal power plants in September that p...

Just at the time when the state government is busy luring investors, promising the best of facilities, the ground realities seem to be throwing a different pictuture courtesy acute power crisis in sev...

Recurring woes of paying a fat electricity bill are over for the Masat Girls’ High school authorities at Diamond Harbour-I block of South 24-Parganas. The school recently installed a 10MW mini ...