Eyeing Assembly polls next year, the Delhi government went into overdrive in 2012 doling out sops and regularising unauthorised colonies but the barbaric gangrape of a young girl brought shame to the city and triggered a blame game between Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and the police. After BJP handed a crushing defeat to Congress in the municipal polls in April, a worried Dikshit put her government into fast gear and...
01:03 PM, Dec 28, 2012
New Delhi: Northern states, including New Delhi, could face power cuts as three hydro-power plants that together supply about 3,000 MW of electricity to the region have been shut down. The 1,500 MW Nathpa Jhakri, 1,000 MW Karcham-Wangtoo and 300 MW Chamera II hydro-power projects have been shut temporarily due to high silt levels in water, sources said. Electricity generated in these three hydro-power plants is fed to Northern Grid,...
11:35 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Lucknow: The Northern grid came close to snapping on Monday but for the timely intervention of Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited, state government officials said. The grid frequency dipped close to 48.8 at around 10.48 am on Monday as against the recommended frequency of between 49.7-50.2, Principal Secretary (Power) Anil Kumar Gupta said. When the grid tripped on July 31, the frequency was 49.7. As officials saw another "black out"...
09:32 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: Union Power Minister Veerappa Moily on Monday came under fire from Congress colleague and former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh for his suggestion to imprison the chief secretaries of states that overdrew power from the power grids. He said, "I differ with Moily on this issue. I think Moily wants somebody to take the responsibility for all these things. I think it is the government after all... People...
02:36 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. Twenty days after the devastating power grid failure, do we have a clear idea of what caused them and how does the government view the wider power scenario? These are the two key questions I shall discuss today with the new Power Minister, Dr Veerappa Moily. Dr Moily, let's start with the two consecutive power grid failure at the end of July....
09:19 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Power Minister Veerappa Moily has said that his ministry will take stern steps like heavy fines and even imprisonment to prevent states from overdrawing power from the grids. Speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, the minister gave assurances that the grid collapse that happened on two consecutive days in the end of July will not happen again. Below is an edited transcript of the excerpt from the interview. Karan...
07:56 AM, Aug 19, 2012
New Delhi: Over drawing of electricity by northern states could be one of the reasons for the massive power failure in July that hit half of the country's population, according to the initial findings of a high-level panel appointed by the government to probe the grid collapse. "Western region was under drawing with no reduction in the generation capacities and the northern region was overdrawing resulting in inter-regional grid imbalances,"...
09:55 PM, Aug 16, 2012
New Delhi: The widespread power outages this week reflects the inadequacy of India's infrastructure and have a negative impact on economic activity, rating agency Moody's said on Thursday. Triggering one of the world's worst power crisis ever, three grids collapsed this week affecting more than half of the country's 1.2 billion population. "The widespread power blackouts that hit India's (Baa3 stable) north, east and northeast regions on Monday and Tuesday...
11:24 PM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: Sushil Kumar Shinde, who ended his tenure as Union Power Minister on Tuesday after collapses of three power grids for two consecutive days, on Wednesday claimed his performance at the ministry was "successful". Shinde, the new Home Minister, who was handling Power portfolio till Tuesday, rejected the criticism that the collapse of Northern, Eastern and Northeast grids, which saw half of the country's population going without electricity, showed...
10:17 AM, Aug 02, 2012
Commenting on the recent grid collapse, Power Minister Veerappa Moily said that there is no compromise on the power code. ...
07:31 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: Blaming government's "incompetence" for the power crisis in the country, the BJP on Wednesday attacked it for alleging that overdrawing by some states led to grid collapse and insisted it was caused by administrative and not technical failure. "The unprecedented grid failure is a result of negligence, incompetence and complete abdication of duty on the part of the central government. The central government is hiding some important facts...
06:37 PM, Aug 01, 2012
The power outage on Tuesday had half of the country in dark, here's a family from Delhi talking about how they coped. ...
05:55 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: A day after the country faced its worst grid collapse, Union Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily on Wednesday took the additional charge of the Power Ministry. Addressing mediapersons after assuming the office, Moily asserted that he would not allow grid collapse again. "I am confident we will not allow this to happen again. We are keeping vigil," said Moily. Talking about the current situation, Moily said that there...
05:15 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: Despite the two-day mayhem across half of India caused by the Northern and Eastern Grid collapse, four northern states and the national capital were overdrawing power from the Northern Grid yet again on Wednesday. Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Delhi were overdrawing power from the Northern Grid, the northern regional load dispact centre data showed. Punjab had overdrawn power by 800 MW till 3 pm. The Northern Grid...
03:13 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: Twenty-four hours after India's worst power failure, India Inc is counting the cost. Punjab's industrial hub Ludhiana alone has posted a loss of Rs 200-Rs 300 crore. For two consecutive days, as workers sat idle at the industrial units facing blackouts, the units which used power back-up saw their production costs rise, leading to overhead losses. Power from generators cost Rs 14 per unit as against the Rs...
02:01 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: Despite the two-day mayhem across half of India owing to the grid collapse, Punjab was overdrawing power from the Northern Grid yet again on Wednesday. Till 1 pm, the state had overdrawn by 500 MW. The Northern Grid and the Eastern Grid collapsed on Tuesday triggering the worst ever power crisis in the country. The Centre blamed Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan for the collapse saying they...
01:30 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Amidst scathing criticism, Congress has defended its decision to appoint ex-Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde as the Home Minister at a time when half of the country was plunged in total darkness due to a major grid collapse. ...
11:01 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Jaipur: As people in Rajasthan continued to suffer from the disruption in electricity supplies, the state government Tuesday rebutted the union power ministry's charge that it was overdrawing power beyond its limit from the Northern Grid. "We are overdrawing much below our permissible limit," state Energy Minister Jitendra Singh said. He however did not give any figures. Some states, including Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab have been held responsible...
02:20 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Almost half of India faces blackout as three grids collapse. Sushil Kumar Shinde moved to the Home Ministry. ...
11:56 PM, Jul 31, 2012
There was power blackout in almost half of India as three grids collapsed hitting 20 states and over 60 crore people. ...
11:49 PM, Jul 31, 2012
