Jammu: With the chorus against inadequate water supply and power outage in the city growing louder by the day, Jammu and Kashmir Minister for Planning and Development Ajay Kumar Sadhotra on Friday asked the engineers to ensure "best possible service" to the people. "Ensure best possible service within given resources keeping in view the unprecedented climatic conditions," Sadhotra asked the officials during a high level meeting held in Jammu.
The minister took stock of the constraints in meeting the growing demand of power and called for evolving a mechanism wherein maximum respite is provided to the people. Stressing the need for reactivating round the clock help-lines in various areas, he asked the departmental heads to "gear up field staff" for taking "immediate cognizance" of the problems faced to the people.
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01:23 AM, Jun 15, 2013
New Delhi: As Delhi reeled under sweltering heat conditions and the mercury crossed 44 degrees Celsius, the demand for electricity peaked for the year. According to power department, the maximum demand for power reached 4,732 megawatt (MW) at 2.48 PM, breaching Sunday's record demand of 4.406 MW. Last year, maximum power demand had gone beyond 5,600 MW. A power department official said that the demand is likely to break last...
10:00 PM, May 20, 2013
Jaipur: An employee of the Army Supply Corp, posted in the South Western Command in Jaipur, was arrested for allegedly passing confidential information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, police said on Friday. "The accused Upper Division Clerk BK Sinha (43) was spying for ISI and sharing classified information and documents regarding Army's transport related movements to Nepal based ISI agent," said Additional DG (Intelligence) Dalpat Singh Dinkar. Sinha was arrested by...
04:56 PM, May 17, 2013
Islamabad: Suspected militants attacked NATO supply trucks in Pakistan's restive northwest on Thursday, killing two drivers, officials said. Two armed men riding a motorcycle targeted a truck in Jamrud area of the lawless Khyber tribal region and killed its driver, officials told the media. Another NATO supply truck was attacked on the outskirts of Peshawar and its driver shot dead, police officials said. No group claimed responsibility for both attacks....
03:00 AM, May 17, 2013
San Francisco: Supply issues have snarled the US rollout of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's latest flagship smartphone, which will go on sale at carriers Sprint and T-Mobile later than expected, the wireless service providers said on Wednesday. Samsung attributed the disruption to unexpectedly strong demand for the Galaxy S4, the South Korean company's direct challenge to Apple Inc's iPhone. "Due to overwhelming global demand of Galaxy S4, the initial supply...
02:06 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Lucknow: Pushed on the backfoot after "strong political reactions" from New Delhi, the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday restored 24x7 power supply to Rae Bareli and Amethi - parliamentary constituencies of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. While the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) had confirmed on Thursday that power cuts had been effected in the two VIP districts owing to acute power shortage, it now says that power rostering...
09:20 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has ended 24x7 power supply to Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented in Parliament by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, indicating a rift between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress. The move was taken by the Uttar Pradesh Power Corp Ltd, officials said on Friday. The nine-month-old decision to provide round-the-clock electricity to these two places was revoked late on Thursday, after which power went off for more...
09:09 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Increasing renewable energy supply requires a favourable policy environment which can encourage private investment, New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah said in Delhi on Monday. "In fact, in India much of the renewable energy development - especially that which is grid-connected - has taken place with private sector investment. "There are issues such as effective integration of renewable energy in the grid, use of smart grids, and...
12:47 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) on Friday ordered closure of the Tuticorin copper smelting plant of Sterlite Industries, part of Vedanta Resources group, with immediate effect, and power supply to the plant has been cut off, a company official said. "The TNPCB issued the order to shut down the plant with immediate effect and the power utility on Friday night disconnected the power supply to the plant....
05:19 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Chandigarh: As many as 1448 complaints relating to corruption have been received in the past one year in Haryana, state Lokayukta Justice (Retd) Pritam Pal said in Chandigarh on Sunday. Out of these, action has been taken in 900 cases and investigations into remaining complaints will be completed soon, he said. The complaints related mainly to police, revenue and food supply departments, the Lokayukta said. Anyone can file a complaint...
02:50 AM, Mar 25, 2013
The drought situation in Maharashtra has worsened with more villages being supplied water through tankers, an official said on Monday. The number of villages and hamlets depending on water tankers for survival went up to 7,075 from 6,488 last Monday. ...
05:05 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Power was restored in cities across Pakistan on Monday morning after the collapse of national grid Sunday night, plunging most of the country into darkness for several hours. ...
02:49 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday said all villages in the state would get uninterrupted electricity by June. "All villages in the state will get uninterrupted power supply from June," Chouhan said. "Jabalpur has become the first district in the state receiving 24-hour power supply from today on par with urban areas", he said. ...
11:47 AM, Jan 21, 2013
New Delhi: Mahendra Sahu is just 17 but he now knows he has to take care of his three siblings and father. His mother Rajkumari who was the only earning member of this family of six died on Tuesday morning at the Sushruta Trauma Centre after the oxygen supply was cut off. She was among the five patients who died that fateful day. Mahender says, "My mother died because of...
09:06 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Five patients at the Intensive Care Unit of Sushruta Trauma Centre in Delhi died after the oxygen supply to their ventilator was allegedly stopped. ...
11:59 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: The death toll has risen to five after another patient died on Wednesday in a Delhi government hospital due to medical negligence after the oxygen supply was cut off while carrying out repair work. All the five patients at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Sushruta Trauma Centre died after the oxygen supply to their ventilator was allegedly stopped. An FIR has been filed in the case. The...
01:58 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking case of medical negligence in a Delhi government hospital, four people died after their oxygen supply was cut off while carrying out repair work. The four patients at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) died in Sushruta Trauma Centre after the oxygen supply to their ventilator was allegedly stopped. The police have filed an FIR. The Delhi government has set up a special panel to probe...
07:38 AM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: India can depend on Canada as a reliable supplier of liquified natural gas (LNG) for decades to come, the country's Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, said on Monday. "We have vast natural resources in Canada. India, as one of the world's largest energy consumers, is looking to diversify its energy supply sources which Canada is well positioned to fulfil," Oliver told media persons here. "We see this...
09:23 AM, Oct 09, 2012
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has questioned the 24-hour power supply to the VIP districts in Uttar Pradesh. These include power supply in Amethi, Raebareli, Etawah, Kannauj, Mainpuri and Ramnagar. Amethi is Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi's constituency, Raebareli is Sonia Gandhi's while Etawah and Mainpuri are Mulayam Singh Yadav's strongholds. Ramnagar is represented by Samajwadi Party's Muslim face Azam Khan. The Lucknow bench of the...
02:12 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Hyderabad: Despite showers in the last few weeks, the prospect of drinking water shortage still looms large over the twin cities. In fact, no less an official than the new managing director of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) J Syamala Rao indicated that citizens should brace for shortage of drinking water, off and on, till the next monsoon. We will be able to manage with water...
01:45 PM, Sep 25, 2012
