Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission chairman Justice G. Bhavani Prasad called upon the energy sector to offer electricity at affordable prices to consumers in general and to industries in particular.
Day: February 6, 2019
Over 1 kg of smuggled gold seized from air passenger
Officers of the Customs Air Intelligence Unit seized 1.25 kg of gold cut in to pieces from a 42-year-old male passenger after he arrived here from Kuala Lumpur by an Air Asia flight on Tuesday.
Coimbatore airport registers 27.29 % growth in passenger traffic
Despite constraints, especially owing to its expansion not taking off, the Coimbatore International Airport registered 27.29 % growth in terms of passengers traffic (domestic and international) in 2018 compared to the previous year.
Land owners allege apathy by AAI for arrears in lease
While the acquisition of land by the State Government for expanding the Coimbatore International Airport is yet to be completed, a section of the land owners, who had leased their lands 80 years ago, are complaining apathy by the Airport Authority of India (AAI).
Prove Kamarajar Salai is not a highway, HC tells government
The Madras High Court on Tuesday wanted to know by Wednesday whether Kamarajar Salai, which runs parallel to the Marina beach, had been declared a State highway or not. The query was posed to decide a public interest litigation petition filed against the construction of a commemorative arch right across the road to mark the […]
Cessna aircraft on a training flight crashes into field in Pune
A Cessna 172 aircraft on a training flight crashed in an agricultural field at Indapur in Pune district of Maharashtra on Tuesday.
Farmers hit as power supply is cut off
Farmers living in the backwaters of the Baje dam on the Swarna, called the Swarna First Stage, to upstream Shiroor dam, called the Swarna Second Stage, are a distraught lot after the authorities cut off power supply to their irrigation pumpsets.
Kilkattalai electricity office to be shifted to S Kolathur
CHENNAI: Tangedco section office at Kilkattalai will be shifted to S Kolathur from Thursday. Currently, the office is at No 5, Pillayar Koil Street at Kilkattatai.
Pilots shut off wrong engine after bird hit: DGCA report
The final investigation report of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation on a bird hit suffered by a Delhi-Mumbai GoAir flight on June 21, 2017, has revealed that the pilots turned off the wrong engine and flew the plane on the engine that had ingested the bird.
Won’t follow changes in schedule if flying allowances not paid by February 10: Air India pilot unions
NEW DELHI: Pilot unions of Air India have written to the company asking that their flying allowances be paid by February 10 otherwise they will not accept any changes in the duty roster, which has already been issued for February.
Ujjwala scheme takes India to second rank in LPG imports
MUMBAI: The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) has so far provided over 6.31 crore free LPG connections since its launch, and now the target has been upped to 8 crore connections by March 2020. This has helped the country achieve a LPG coverage of close to 90 per cent, but this has also led to […]
Inventory losses pull down HPCL profit by 82 per cent
NEW DELHI: State-run oil major Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., (HPCL) has posted an 87.2 per cent drop in net profit during the quarter ended December 31 compared to the same period last year. The decline in earnings was primarily due to a Rs 3,465 crore inventory loss arising from falling crude oil prices, combined with […]