power outages

Pune: Residents tackle sleepless nights, traffic chaos amid prolonged outage

July 08, 2025 12:03 am

According to MSEDCL, emergency work was carried out on war footing to prevent a larger crisis

Mohali: After repeated outages, Aerocity G block residents demand urgent power supply

June 17, 2025 2:39 am

To highlight the gravity of the issue, the G Block RWA and residents met MLA Kulwant Singh Monday, seeking his urgent intervention

As long power outages continue in Mohali amid intense heat, residents hit out at AAP govt over ‘hollow promises’

June 16, 2025 12:41 am

On Friday and Saturday evening, women from Shiva Enclave, Bhabaat, expressed their frustration by sagging overhead lines and surprise shutdowns and sat on the road in protest

Surplus power from "linkage coal" can be sold by thermal stations in the market: Power Ministry tells utilities as summer heat intensifies

April 24, 2024 11:03 am

In FY24, August recorded the highest shortfall of .6 per cent, followed by .5 per cent in January, and .4 per cent in October.

Power shortage: Railways cancels 753 trips to prioritise coal delivery

April 30, 2022 7:45 am

A total of 713 trips of the South East Central Railway (SECR) have been cancelled till May 25 while 40 trips of the Northern Railways (NR) have been cancelled till May 8.

How to shock-proof India’s power sector

April 29, 2022 10:39 pm

Shalu Agrawal and Karthik Ganesan write: The efficiency of thermal plants must be increased and regulators empowered to bring down losses

Delhi power crisis could mean power cuts in hospitals, Metro: Govt

April 29, 2022 1:37 pm

Delhi power crisis: Satyendar Jain wrote to the Centre, requesting it to ensure adequate coal availability to power plants that supply electricity to the national capital. He also held a meeting with department officials to assess the situation.

Many states face power outage

April 11, 2022 11:17 am

Electricity shortage rose to 80 million units (MUs) on Apr 7, close to an all-time high of 82 MU seen on October 12, 2021

Power outages hit China, threatening economy and Christmas

September 28, 2021 12:43 pm

Economists predicted that production interruptions at Chinese factories would make it harder for many stores in the West to restock empty shelves and could contribute to inflation in the coming months.

Hurricane Grace lashes eastern Mexico, causing power outages, felling trees

August 21, 2021 7:07 pm

Grace was whipping up maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour, a Category 3 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, when it slammed into the coast near the resort town of Tecolutla in Veracruz state in the early morning.

Russia fires barrage of missiles on Ukraine's major cities

December 29, 2022 9:27 pm