Bangalore: Most media campaigns on cases of rape and sexual assault or stories based on such victims in movies end with justice or the lack of it. Counsellors who handle sexual assault victims say that justice is often the last thing on the minds of the victims as they grapple with insecurities that affect their life adversely. City Express speaks with counsellors and women's rights activist, who delve into the...
11:25 AM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: This summer, get ready to face the heat. India is 21,000 MW short of electricity, which means long nights without power. The reason is that 25 power stations have just about four days of coal left to fuel the power plants and a little more than 30 stations have just 7 days of stock left. The Central Electricity Authority has warned that Delhi's Rajghat plant, Haryana's Mahatma Gandhi...
08:46 AM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Government on Monday decided to extend financial assistance to Reliance Infrastructure-backed discom BSES which has defaulted on payment of around Rs 3,000 crore to various power generating and transmission firms. The decision to offer the help to the beleaguered company was taken at a Cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Dikshit, however, did not give details about the financial assistance but officials said government...
03:44 PM, Dec 26, 2011
New Delhi: Get ready to shell out more on your power bill as notwithstanding last month's 22 per cent hike in power tariff, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Monday dropped strong indication of another increase, saying cost of electricity procurement has gone up significantly. Justifying the demands by private power distribution companies to further hike the tariff, Dikshit said the rates in Delhi were much lower compared to most of...
09:46 AM, Oct 25, 2011
New Delhi: Beat it home after dark in Delhi. Nearly 70 per cent of the capital's three lakh street lights, maintained by the civic corporation, do not work -- a factor people blame for the rising number of crimes after dusk in Delhi. Three private companies (discoms) - North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL), BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Limited - maintain the street lights in the...
05:36 PM, Dec 14, 2010
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