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Friday, December 19, 2025
TopicElectricity

Topic: electricity

Govt likely to unveil Rs 3 trillion reform to revive ailing state power firms

The spending would focus on upgrading infrastructure and technology of the ailing utilities to make them more efficient and reduce financial losses.

Power supply restored in Pakistan following huge blackout across country

The power outage was reported just before midnight almost simultaneously in cities such as Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Islamabad, Multan and others.

Raj Thackeray meets Maharashtra Governor, seeks intervention on inflated power bills issue

Several people in Maharashtra had complained that they received inflated electricity bills during the Covid lockdown.

Mumbai reels under sudden massive power outage, CM Thackeray orders enquiry

State Energy Minister Nitin Raut said there was a technical glitch in a power circuit and about 2,200 megawatts of power supply to Mumbai was disrupted as a result.

Large parts of Mumbai hit by power outage, local trains service affected

Power is being currently supplied to critical services in Mumbai, but no timeline for restoration has been given till now.

Investor sentiment still low. But green shoots in bank loans, GST collections, power usage

Double-digit growth seems optimistic. Modi govt needs to more than double its expenditure to compensate for the losses and avert GDP decline. It's fanciful at best.

Mini-grids — the little-known clean energy revolution

Mini grids, which use solar power, have become much cheaper than installing long-distance transmission lines from a central grid, making it more accessible to people who need it.

Power consumption can explode with increasing use of artificial intelligence

A flood of new devices are getting internet connections, generating more data and increasing the need for more computing power with AI to make sense of the new information.

Two months on, discoms struggling to use Modi govt’s Rs 90,000 cr lifeline to power sector

The Rs 90,000 cr power sector loans are among a raft of measures announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to help revive the economy.

Taapsee Pannu, Huma Qureshi, Vir Das slam Mumbai discoms for unusually high power bills

After Mumbai residents, Bollywood celebrities slam discoms over high bills for June. Companies say bills calculated on an estimated basis due to lockdown.

On Camera

Why SIR is an exclusionary exercise for Persons with Disabilities

In the ongoing SIR 2.0 exercise, nearly half of the 90 lakh registered PwD voters in India were affected, showed an RTI application.

Antitrust watchdog Competition Commission to probe IndiGo flight disruptions

While the commission didn’t mention provisions under which IndiGo's market domination would be examined, Competition Act 2002 prohibits abuse of dominant position by any enterprise.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.