The residents of Naseem Abad Kanitar are up in arms against the Power Development Department (PDD) for unscheduled power cuts in the area. “We are facing lot of inconvenience due to frequent power cuts. Despite being a metered area, we are still facing these problems”, locals said. The inhabitants appealed chief engineer Power Development Department […]
Day: March 12, 2019
Tourism players want UDAN scheme extended to Kashmir
With the skyrocketing airfares shooing away intending tourists to Kashmir, the Valley-based tourism players Monday asked why the central government was not extending its air travel scheme, which facilitates cheaper airfares to several destinations, to Kashmir. The government of India in 2016 launched UDAN (ude desh ka aam nagrik) scheme to make air travel affordable […]
Supreme Court rejects Meghalaya coal transportation pleas
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected pleas to allow transportation of coal by trucks in transit prior to an order which halted it. The Assembly was informed that more than 1,000 cases of illegal coal mining were registered since 2014 across Meghalaya. Last year, the apex court had allowed transportation of extracted and assessed coal […]
Cloud over Bengal pipeline project
The development of a gas pipeline in Bengal — from Kanai Chatta near Digha to Shrirampur in Nadia — could be hit because of lack of clarity on the supply of the fuel from H-Energy Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of real estate firm Hiranandani Group. “The availability of FSRU (floating storage regasification unit) timeline is […]
US ‘urges’ India on Venezuela
The US is pressing India to stop buying oil from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government, Washington’s top envoy for Venezuela said, as the Trump administration this week threatened more US sanctions to cut off Maduro’s financial lifelines. “We say you should not be helping this regime. You should be on the side of the Venezuelan […]
Green light for civic area street lights
Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation’s LED street-lighting project, that had been in a state of limbo for several months, has made some progress. The civic body has submitted a list of lights that are required in all 41 wards under its jurisdiction to the urban development and municipal affairs department. The ball has got rolling after a […]
Dead meters haunt power revenue
Most of the 3,000-odd transformer meters that were installed in Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam’s (JBVNL) Singhbhum electricity supply area barely six years ago to keep tabs on power distribution and consumption have gone defunct. The problem came to the fore after the state power utility began examining its existing infrastructure ahead of peak summer to […]
Tatas on green turf with electric buses
Tata Motors will finish the delivery of 255 electric buses to six states within three months. The company had bagged the contracts from the state transport corporations (STCs) under the FAME I scheme. This order includes 80 buses from Bengal, 40 each from Jammu and Kashmir, Lucknow, Indore and Jaipur and 15 from Assam. Sixty-five […]
PFC to feel selloff strain
The Power Finance Corporation is likely to dip into its finances and buy out the government’s stake in Rural Electrification Corporation at a premium. This will bail out the Centre in meeting the divestment target of Rs 80,000 crore for the current fiscal. The board of PFC is slated to meet next week to decide […]
Turbulence injures 30 on flight from Istanbul to New York
Severe turbulence tossed terrified passengers and crew around a Turkish Airlines plane cabin as it passed over Maine on Saturday, with 30 people suffering bumps, bruises, cuts and a broken leg before the flight landed safely at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, officials said. Dozens of ambulances lined up in front of a […]
Pakistan impact on Calcutta airport: planes diverted, revenues hit
A part of the revenue has been bypassing the Calcutta airport since Pakistan closed its airspace in the aftermath of India’s air strike in Balakot. The diversion of the revenue is on account of Europe-bound overflying flights being forced to take a different route or being cancelled because of the curb imposed by Pakistan, officials […]
Jet Airways seeks Rs 750cr from Etihad
Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal has sought an urgent funding of Rs 750 crore from its equity partner Etihad, citing “the very precarious” position of the airline following lingering cash flow issues. The Etihad board is meeting in Abu Dhabi on Monday to decide on certain crucial issues. Jet on Monday defaulted on the part-repayment […]