Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana 'Saubhagya' launched on the birth anniversary of Hindutv icon Deendayal Upadhyaya will entail free electricity connections to poor households, PM Modi said.
Irked over frequent power cuts, a former judge allegedly opened fire at Haryana electricity board workers while they were fixing the transmission line outside his house here, police said today
A 17-year-old science student from Odisha’s Nuapada district has devised a technique that potentially qualifies as one of the most innovative methods to put scrapped notes to good use
IIT-M students, in collaboration with Union Power Ministry have provided electricity to 2200 hundred homes and have changed the lives of thousands of people in the geographically challenged area.
In a significant turn of events for a country known earlier for its crippling power situation and severe infrastructural woes, India has now become a net exporter of electricity for the first time during the
A team of researchers has found an inexpensive and simple method that allows them to convert footsteps into usable electricity. Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison revealed that the method puts to good use a common
A prompt response by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on a complaint by a 23-year-old college student in August has ended an 11-year-long wait for power supply to Bidhiya (also known as Madhuban), a remote village in Etah district.
Scientists have discovered a new light-weight, conductive material which can convert body heat into electricity, and lead to T-shirts or arm bands that generate power for wearable electronics.
Vadodara: People of Shiyal Bet, a nondescript island in Gujarat’s Amreli district on Saturday woke up to cherishing moment as electricity reached their homes. They have had been waiting for nearly seven decades after India’s
Unscheduled power cuts by distribution companies in the national capital will now weigh heavy for discoms. According to a directive by the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC), power distribution companies will now have to compensate consum
India's electricity consumption will increase four times from about 1.1 trillion units to 4 trillion units by 2030.
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.
The Power Ministry today said it has achieved the target of electrifying 7,000 villages in the current fiscal.
New York:A group of students in the US has used waste tomatoes to generate electricity. Damaged tomatoes are thrown away in the US in large amounts because they are not considered fit for grocery stores.
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
Davos: India's power sector is at an "inflection", or turning point, while most of its electricity consumed in the next two decades will come from burning fossil fuels, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said on
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech at the Wembley stadium in London on November 13, 2015, he said: "As many as 18,000 villages need electricity. There are not even electricity poles. In the next 1,000
Islamabad: Energy-starved Pakistan's plan to import up to 4,000 megawatts of electricity from India's Adani Enterprises has been stalled amid rising anti-Pakistan and extremist sentiments in India, a media report said.Representatives of Adani Enterprises, a
Lucknow: Faced with the peaking demand for power and shortfall in supply, Uttar Pradesh will purchase electricity from three states, an official said on Tuesday.About 1,500 MW power will be purchased from Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan
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