India on Tuesday said it is eyeing a bailout for state electricity distributors saddled with Rs 1.9 trillion in debt and increasingly unable to pay for new supplies as they sell power below cost and l

Despite an unrelenting power crisis and every sign that the situation is set to get to even worse, the power utilities are reluctant to go in for additional power purchases. Reason being that they fin

Residents of about half-a- dozen colonies in the Kushaiguda area staged a day-long dharna in protest of being denied power connection for the last four years. The residents complained that despite

The scorching heat in Chennai once again pushed the ever-rising power demand to a new high of 11,283 megawatts (MW) on June 26. The previous highest power demand in the city was recorded on June 6 whe

As a long-term solution to the woes of the heavily-stressed power sector, which is likely to seek nearly Rs 70,000 crore debt restructuring this fiscal, SBI chairman Pratip Chaudhuri has called for

Already battling high inflation, people in Delhi will have to shell out more for electricity from July 1 with the city's power regulator DERC on Tuesday announcing a steep hike of around 26 per cent i

The Madras high court has dismissed a batch of more than 200 petitions challenging the levy of electricity tax on maximum demand charges, peak hour charges and power factor charges from poeple involve

With the focus shifting to detect power theft, the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has earned Rs 60.64 crore through detecting 8,563 cases of power theft between April 20

Residents of Alwarthiru Nagar picketed Tangedco office at Velan Nagar on Monday in protest against the frequent power outage and voltage fluctuation in their locality.

Around 30 residents of the loca

In signs of worsening power supply situation for consumers, the shortfall in electricity generation during peak hours stood at nearly 11,000 MW in April as fuel scarcity hurt performance of thermal pl