Government is set to offer a bailout to its cash-strapped power distributors that would help restructure more than $35 billion in debt but do little to reform a sector whose dysfunction has exacerbate

The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday said the state has averted the failure of the Northern Grid, as electricity supplies were timely cut to certain districts.

"We timely succeeded in averting grid

In light of the blackout that struck North India, were such an eventuality to occur in the southern states, the situation could be equally grim. The Southern Grid, which allows only 1,500 MW of power

Pakistan's electronic media watchdog has sought the people's cooperation to blackout Indian television channels on domestic cable networks, conceding that some of them had resurfaced after recently be