The outstanding dues owed by distribution utilities to power producers rose around 57 per cent to Rs 78,020 crore in August 2019 as compared to the same month last year, reflecting a growing stress in the sector. Distribution companies owed a total of Rs 49,669 crore to power generation companies in August 2018.
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The 21st century world is increasingly becoming multipolar and is unlikely to return to bipolarity, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said here on Tuesday, predicting that a strategic appreciation of the emerging global landscape would bring India and the US closer.
The government has constituted a committee to bring clarity on the issue of single-use plastic, which directly impacts multiple industries including consumers goods and pharmaceuticals.
Of the seven mines to go under the hammer, four are limestone blocks, two are chromite ore mines and one is graphite block, according to mines ministry data.
Three districts in Arunachal Pradesh have been declared “disturbed” under the AFSPA by the central government for six more months following a review of the law and order situation there.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah today gave a clarion call to shun single-use plastic and urged citizens to take an initiative to make this a mass movement.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat on his 150th birth anniversary and urged people to implement Gandhian principles in their daily lives.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi met Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in New Delhi today and apprised him of the hardships faced by people of Wayanad due to the night traffic ban on the national highway passing through Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi today for his ‘Abki Baar Trump Sarkar’ remark at the ‘Howdy, Modi!’ event, saying it reflected his ‘incompetence’, which had caused serious problems with the Democrats for India.