Full-service carrier Vistara has decided to roll back the pay cut, implemented by the airline last year, for certain categories of employees from April while the reduced salaries will continue for the management-level executives, including the CEO, according to an e-mail to the airline staff. The Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines joint venture airline had […]
Day: March 30, 2021
Tata Power receives orders to develop 60 MW solar project in Gujarat
Tata Power on Tuesday said it has bagged an order to develop 60 MW (mega watt) solar project for Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam. The company has received a letter of award from Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) on March 26, 2021, to develop a 60 MW solar project in the state of Gujarat, Tata […]
Petrol price cut by 22 paise, diesel by 23 paise
Petrol and diesel prices on Tuesday were cut for the third time within a week on the back of softening international oil prices. Petrol price was cut by 22 paise per litre and diesel by 23 paise per litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. Petrol now costs Rs 90.56 per litre […]
Oil price gains as focus switches to OPEC+ extending output cuts
Oil prices rose on Tuesday as shipping traffic resumed through the Suez Canal after days on hold and focus turned to an OPEC+ meeting this week where the extension of supply curbs may be on the table amid new coronavirus pandemic lockdowns. Brent crude was down 21 cents, or 0.3%, at $65.19 a barrel by […]
Nexcharge, Tata Power inaugurate India’s 1st grid-connected community energy storage system
Nexcharge, a joint venture between Exide Industries and Switzerland-based Leclanche, on Tuesday inaugurated the country’s first grid-connected lithium-ion battery-based community energy storage system in Delhi in collaboration with Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL). The 0.52 MWh battery energy storage system at TPDDL’s Rani Bagh substation will provide peak shaving and deviation settlement mechanism based on […]
Karnataka: 20 per cent of daily power needs met by solar energy
Solar energy plants meet about 20 per cent of Karnataka’s daily power requirements as the overall share of renewables continues to climb. At 7,346 megawatts (MW), the state has the largest installed capacity of solar power in the country, and the biggest local plant is in Pavagada (Tumakuru). Last week, minister of state for power […]
India calls Saudi advice on tapping stored oil ‘undiplomatic’
Indian oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday described his Saudi counterpart’s advice to reduce oil stores to tackle high crude prices as “undiplomatic”. “That was in a way (an) undiplomatic answer by some of our old friend. I politely disagree with that kind of approach. “Certainly India has its own strategy, when and how to […]
Consider imposing fines on passengers not wearing masks ‘properly’: DGCA to airports
Aviation regulator DGCA on Tuesday told airports to consider imposing spot fines, with the help of police authorities, on passengers who are not wearing masks properly and maintaining social distance as per the COVID-19 rules. On March 13, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had asked airlines to de-board passengers who do not wear […]
Coal scam: Key accused Anup Majhi appears before CBI sleuths in Kolkata
Anup Majhi alias Lala, the alleged kingpin of the multi-crore-rupee coal scam, appeared before CBI sleuths on Tuesday at the agency’s Nizam Palace office here to face interrogation. Sources in the CBI said Majhi, over the past four months, had been evading the agency’s notices and a look-out circular issued against him. The Central Bureau […]
Coal India clocks record single day rake loading
Coal India Limited (CIL) loaded 372.5 rakes on 19 March, the highest single day loakding this fiscal. Of this, power sector accounted for 90 per cent at 335 rakes, the company said in a statement. “After CIL’s supplies shrunk by 21 per cent amid Covid-19 triggered downward spiral in Q1, the company bounced back strongly […]
Can India catch-up with the rest of Asia in EV production?
The year is 2023. A Singapore resident decides to buy a car. Not just any car but the latest electric vehicle (EV) produced by the new gleaming high-tech Hyundai factory in Jurong, an industrial town in Western Singapore. She whips up her smartphone and personalises her new car. She surmises that cream colour seats, a […]
BHEL bags major order for Sulphur Recovery Unit from Indian Oil
Bharat Heavy Electrical has bagged a major order for a Sulphur Recovery Unit from IOCL. With this order, BHEL has made an entry into the downstream oil & gas process package business. The package, valued at over Rs.400 crore, envisages setting up a 525 TPD Sulphur Recovery Unit at IOCL’s Paradip Refinery in Odisha. The […]