Piyush Goyal has warned the state governments to ensure that they don’t indulge in any irregular activities that affect Centre’s flagship schemes for rural electrification and urban upgradation of power infrastructure.

Mumbai: Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal and senior Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram were today elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. The deadline for withdrawal of nominations ended this afternoon.

New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday released its list of 12 candidates for the biennial elections from nine states to the Rajya Sabha, including union ministers M. Venkaiah Naidu, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Chaudhary Birender

The Indian economy is undoubtedly doing well despite various problems and bad weather conditions that impacted agriculture.

The BJP has nominated Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal as its candidate from Maharashtra for the Rajya Sabha election slated on June 11. Goyal filed his nomination for the RS polls at Vidhan Bhavan here last evening.

India TV Samvaad, IndiaTV’s daylong conclave to analyse the government’s hits and misses, drew to a close with a healthy exchange of ideas and suggestions to the government.

New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Thursday advised Power Minister Piyush Goyal to give short answers to questions raised by MPs after Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav objected to his long speeches.

The Centre's ambitious National LED programme -- Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) -- will be implemented across the country by 2019, Minister for Power and Coal, Piyush Goyal said today.

India’s power shortage stood at 2.1 per cent, the lowest level in a single year, in the last financial year, Parliament was informed on Thursday.

India and France have launched a programme with $1 trillion potential to help developing countries harness fully their solar resources for a clean energy future to meet the "biggest challenge humanity has ever faced".

New York: India will need $250 billion in the next five to six years and $1 trillion by 2030, a scale of investment “unparalleled anywhere in the world,” to fuel its race to provide energy

New Delhi: India will need $250 billion in the next five to six years and $1 trillion by 2030, a scale of investment "unparalleled anywhere in the world," to fuel its race to provide energy

India plans to completely stop thermal coal imports in 2-3 years that would result in annual savings of Rs 40,000 crore, Piyush Goyal said today

There are 50 million rural homes without access to electricity, union Minister Piyush Goyal said here on Friday.

New Delhi: Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that the government is working towards a model which will ensure every car user in the country could have an electric vehicle by 2030. The scheme,

Allahabad:The Centre has allocated more than Rs 11,000 crore for bringing electricity to every nook and corner of Uttar Pradesh, despite the failure of successive governments in the state to utilize central grants meant for

New Delhi: The central government has fixed a target of electrifying 7,000 un-electrified villages by the end of the current fiscal on March 31, Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said."The village electrification target for 2015-16

New Delhi: As many as 253 villages were electrified last week under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY).Of these villages, 111 are in Odisha, 81 in Assam, 40 in Jharkhand, 13 in Rajasthan, 4

Brisbane: The Power Ministry has pledged to spend around Rs 140 crore through public sector undertakings under its administration to prepare 100 sports persons for the Olympics in the next 10 years.The government wants to

Sydney: India is expected to spend a whopping $1 trillion (about Rs 65 lakh crore) by 2030 on ramping up its power infrastructure as one of the world's largest energy consumers aims to provide 24/7