State-owned Power Grid Corporation on Wednesday posted a 10.5 per cent rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 4,028.25 crore in the December quarter, mainly on the back of higher revenues. Its consolidated net profit stood at Rs 3,645.29 crore in the year-ago period, the company said in a regulatory filing. Total income increased to […]
Day: February 8, 2024
Rooftop solar programme to be gamechanger: SBI chairman at BS IML Conclave
The rooftop solar programme, announced by the finance minister in the interim Budget, can be a “gamechanger” and the State Bank of India (SBI) looks at it as an opportunity for its home loan business, the bank’s chairman Dinesh Khara said on Wednesday. In a fireside chat with Tamal Bandyopadhyay, consulting editor of Business Standard, […]
Aether Industries to commission 15 MW solar power plant in Bharuch, Gujarat
Aether Industries will commission a 15 MW solar power project (Auto-Tracker Modules) under the Captive Power Producer (CPP) segment in the Bharuch district of Gujarat with an aim to become more sustainable. Earlier, in July 2023, Aether Industries had commissioned a 16 MW solar power project (Fixed Modules) under the CPP segment and this new […]
IndiGo passengers singing bhajans, playing Dholak, video goes viral
A video showing IndiGo travellers participating in a devotional performance, singing a famous bhajan and playing the dholak while on board a completely occupied flight has gone viral on social media. The recording, whose date remains unspecified, surfaced on ‘X ‘, roughly fourteen days after the inauguration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. In the […]
‘Boeing to assess whether more action needed after NTSB findings’
Boeing will look at the preliminary results from the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) investigation of the 737 MAX 9 blowout and decide whether to take more action around the door plug, a Boeing quality official said on Tuesday. A door plug that flew off an Alaska Airlines MAX 9 jet mid-flight on Jan. 5 […]
Lufthansa cancels hundreds of flights as ground staff strike for a day
Ground staff for Lufthansa walked off the job at five major German airports on Wednesday, causing the airline to cancel hundreds of flights. The Ver.di union called on ground staff at Frankfurt and Munich, Lufthansa’s two main hubs, as well as Berlin, Duesseldorf and Hamburg, to strike for 27 hours starting at 4 am Wednesday. […]