Highlighting the crisis in the industrial sector, president of Fapcci Devendra Surana, said: “For a 20 per cent power shortage in the state, the industrial sector is facing a blanket power cut and the

The government is contemplating levying heavy penalties on states overdrawing electricity that results in grid failure and possible imprisonment of chief secretaries to check the menace.

"I am contem

PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana on Monday sought an apology from the government to the people of the state for erratic power supply. He attributed this to the reduction of gas allocation to state pr

Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy will be meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to request him to stop diversion of Reliance gas from AP to Maharashtra and to allocate additional gas to resolve the

India needs a more cohesive energy policy and stringent grid management to avoid a recurrence of the power outages that hit hundreds of millions of people this week, the chief executive of Reliance In

As India's power minister stood up to address parliament one day last May, the chamber was plunged into darkness and a roar of laughter went up.

Rolling power cuts are part of daily life in India, wh

In an event with no parallel, half the country was gridlocked and faced a blackout Tuesday afternoon as the Northern, Eastern and Northeastern Grids, which carry about 50,000 MW of electricity, tripp

Power has been fully restored to three electricity grids which had failed in India, causing a blackout affecting more than 600 million people, a senior official told agencies on Wednesday.

The newly-appointed Power Minister Veerappa Moily on Wednesday refrained from blaming states for over-drawing electricity that may have led to the collapse of the three grids on Tuesday and said he wi

The worst power outage in country's history represents a 'wake up call' over the failure of the creaking electricity system to keep pace with the growth of Asia's third-largest economy, analysts said.