Renewable energy solutions provider Magenta Power on Tuesday said that Scott Pharr, Managing Director at Accenture, has joined its board of advisors to help the company strategise on the expansion of its business. Pharr has taken up the advisory role in a personal capacity, given that Accenture has no direct interests in Magenta, the company […]
Day: October 13, 2020
Phase 1 of EV charging grid set-up to be completed by the end of the year, says Ather Energy
Electric vehicle startup Ather Energy on Tuesday said the first phase of its plans of setting up charging grid across over 135 locations would be completed by the year-end. In all, the company targets to install 6,500 charging points across the country by 2022, Ather Energy said in a release. The Hero MotoCorp-backed firm currently […]
Central Asia: Locus of World Energy Resources
Central Asia, a landlocked region with huge hydrocarbon resource base on the global energy map has no direct access to world markets; the available option for energy transportation to world markets is the pipelines which are cost effective and reliable. Pipelines have gained the attention of regional and as well as world powers. Therefore, after […]
Sopore residents aghast over unscheduled power cuts
Residents of this town in north Kashmir are up in arms against Power Development Department (PDD) over long and unscheduled power cuts for the past more than 20 days. A group of residents of Ziangeer area said they were facing unscheduled power cuts during peak hours in the evening, resulting in inconveniences. A local said […]
Large parts of Mumbai hit by power outage, trading unaffected
Large parts of India’s financial capital Mumbai experienced power failure Monday, disrupting normal life. The city is home to about 20 million people as also the nation’s biggest stock exchanges, the central bank and financial regulators. Stock exchanges BSE Ltd. and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. continued to function normally. BSE also carried out […]
‘850 MW Ratle project to become reality soon’
Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha took a comprehensive review of the status of various projects of National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) in Jammu and Kashmir, during a meeting at Raj Bhavan here on Sunday. With the intervention of the LG, modalities have been finalized for the upcoming 850-MW new joint venture Ratle project which will […]
PSPCL imposes Rs 10.07 L fine on power defaulters
Under the directions of A Venu Parshad, CMD, PSPCL, deputy director distribution DPS Grewal and Jainender Dania, Chief Engineer, Distribution North, today conducted a morning raid under the supervision of Harjinder Singh Bansal, Deputy Chief Engineer, Distribution, Jalandhar circle, in which 24 squads of technical staff participated.
Rajnath Singh inaugurates 44 BRO bridges
Union Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh on Monday inaugurated 44 bridges constructed by Border Road Organisation (BRO) in seven states and Union Territories sharing International Borders. He dedicated the bridges to the nation and also laid the foundation stone for Nechiphu tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh. Of the 44 bridges, 10 in J&K were inaugurated in presence […]
NHAI to construct 3-grade separators along Bypass
After inordinate delay by the J&K government, National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has stepped in to take over the construction of proposed three-grade separators along Bypass here at an estimated cost of Rs 135 crore. The move has come after the central government approved Rs 574.16 crore annual plan 2020-21 for national highway works […]
Residents bear brunt as road project hangs fire
The residents of the Durgapuri area here are a harried lot as the main road in the place has not been re-carpeted or reconstructed despite their repeated demands to the authorities concerned. The residents have been complaining about the poor condition of the Durgapuri road for a long time, but the civic body has failed […]
Potholes dot Ambala roads, residents irked
Residents of Home Minister Anil Vij’s home town are a harassed lot due to the poor state of inner and outer roads in Ambala Cantonment. Even after six years of his second consecutive stint as a minister in the Manohar Lal Khattar government, there has been no improvement in the condition of roads, which are […]
Himachal Power board employees oppose privatisation
The Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Ltd (HPSEBL) Employees Union has opposed the move of the Union Ministry of Power to privatise distribution companies. The union said the government should have taken a lesson from the states where distribution is already privatised.