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Topic: DISCOM

‘Unavoidable reasons’: UP discom scraps Adani Group tender for 70 lakh prepaid smart meters

Shikha Salaria -
Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd’s decision comes amid allegations of inflated pricing & cartelisation. UP Electricity Power Consumer Council claims Adani Group was lowest bidder.

Electricity Bill 2022 is a remedy worse than the disease afflicting India’s power sector

M.G. Devasahayam -
The 2022 Bill only takes forward the market-is-solution-for-all-ills theory of Montek Singh Ahluwalia who is the prime architect of Electricity Act 2003.

There’s an $80 billion hole in India’s net zero pledge at COP26

Andy Mukherjee -
Without reforming bankrupt discoms, India will struggle to meet its bold target of raising non-fossil-fuel generation capacity.

Punjab’s power shortage is due to its politicised freebies and subsidies, which has bankrupted discoms

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What is Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 and why farmers are opposing it

Kairvy Grewal -
Farmers protesting against the three farm laws passed by the Centre are also against the proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020.

Modi govt electrified India with poles & wires, but challenge is to keep electrons flowing

Ashwini K. Swain -
A major barrier to electricity access in India remains the concurrence between economic poverty and energy poverty.

Modi govt’s Uday scheme loses steam, power discom debts back to pre-2015 levels: Crisil

Remya Nair -
Report by rating agency Crisil suggests government 's Uday scheme not working, says states may implement another bailout or take 'hard decisions'.

Modi’s power industry revival plan takes a hit as discom losses rise

Rajesh Kumar Singh -
The stalled recovery will sustain discoms as the weakest link in India’s electricity supply chain & impede efforts to serve low-paying consumers.

Modi govt scheme to cut discom debts makes little headway, targets unlikely to be met

Remya Nair -
The discoms haven't met or are on the verge of missing deadlines even as states, which took over their debts, grapple with increased fiscal deficits. 

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Opinion

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Johan Jose -
Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

Nitish Kumar’s journey from endurance to exhaustion

India’s think tanks double up as lobbyists, give no disclosures. Hurt policymaking

Economy

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

Tejas Bhatotia -
On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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