Power generating companies and coal traders have welcomed Coal India Limited (CIL)&rsquo;s move to withdraw rise in coal prices. However, they have sought clarity on the rollback and on how the gross calorific value (GCV) mechanism would be cost-neutral.

Power producers seek clarity on CIL's price rollback

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The country&rsquo;s sugar industry hopes a high-level committee instituted by the government to look into the crucial issue of decontrol in the sector will not become yet another exercise of a recommendatory nature. Its captains are looking forward to prompt implementation of the recommendations in a future report by the panel headed by C Rangarajan, chairman of the Prime Minister&rsquo;s Economic Advisory Council.

Sugar industry hopes decontrol will be reality soon

The French nuclear safety regulatory authority (ASN) has said there is no need to change the design of the evolutionary pressurised reactors (EPRs) to be installed at the Jaitapur project in Maharashtra. AREVA India chairman and managing director Arthur de Montalembert, in an interview with Sanjay Jog, says this only confirms the company&rsquo;s engineering capability and emphasis on safety.

We have designed the most safe reactors that suit NPC's requirements: Arthur de Montalembert

The Karnataka government has invoked Section 11 of the Electricity Act, 2003, prohibiting the open access and sale of exportable power by generators outside the state. The directive would come into effect from February 1 and would be in force till the end of this year.

Karnakata govt prohibits sale of exportable power, cites deficit

The fate of the Rs 5,000-crore Worli-Haji Ali sea link now lies with the Maharashtra government.

Proposed coastal road may run over plan

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Sharad Pawar have taken a centre stage during the run up to the elections to the 10 municipal corporations and 27 zilla parishads slated for February. For Shiv Sena, which was unable to recover from the successive defeats in the assembly elections since 1999 and the recently concluded polls to the 195 municipalities, it is a fight for survival and to keep the morale of rank and file high.

Thackeray, Pawar take centre stage in Maharashtra civic polls 

Chavan is heading a high-level delegation to attend the World Economic Forum&rsquo;s annual event at the Swiss ski resort city. This was confirmed by the chief minister&rsquo;s office and by industry secretary K Shivaji.

Chavan to woo investors at Davos

The Maharashtra election commission is considering cancellation of polls to the local and civic bodies in Naxalite-affected districts and in Nashik, which is known for its grape production and winery business. Reason: Law and order problems. The move comes after Union home minister P Chidambaram recently expressed displeasure at the Congress-NCP government&rsquo;s &ldquo;inability&rdquo; at containing the increasing Naxalite activities, in Gadchiroli and Chandrapur districts in the underdeveloped Vidarbha region.

Poll-cancel cloud on Naxal dists

The Opposition Shiv Sena in Maharashtra got a major jolt today as party MP Anand Paranjape approached the ruling Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and its chief Sharad Pawar seeking help to develop his constituency.

Shiv Sena MP drops hint of joining NCP

Electricity peaking shortages in the country has increased to 13.9 per cent in December against 11.6 per cent in November.

Peak deficit rose 13.9% last month

Former Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman and MP from Pune, Suresh Kalmadi, was on Thursday granted bail by the Delhi High Court after remaining in jail for nine months in CWG-related graft cases. Kalmadi, arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation on April 25 last year, was directed to furnish a bail bond of Rs 5 lakh. The court's decision has evoked a mixed reaction in the Maharashtra unit of the Congress and also in the Pune city unit of the party, dominated by Kalmadi supporters.

Mixed reaction in Maharashtra Congress as Kalmadi gets bail

The power ministry wants to appoint an independent investigator to identify the reasons for aggregate transmission and commercial losses (AT&amp;C).

Govt to pick agency to plug power losses

The wait for the Navi Mumbai international airport is getting longer. The state-run City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), nodal agency for the project, is yet to get forest clearance and approval of the Bombay High Court.

Navi Mumbai airport yet to get forest clearance and HC nod 

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gopinath Munde received a jolt when his elder brother, Pandit Anna, decided to join the ruling Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Blow for BJP as Munde's brother set to join NCP

Taking cue from Tamil Nadu villagers protesting against the 2,000-Mw Kudankulam nuclear power project, their counterparts in Maharashtra have decided to step up their agitation against the proposed plant at Madban along the Konkan Coast. Project-affected persons from 10 villages in the vicinity of the project site have announced a &lsquo;jail bharo&rsquo; agitation on January 24 and 25 to press for the cancellation of 9,900-Mw nuclear project in Ratnagiri district.

Villagers plan 'fill up jail' agitation

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has indicated his nephew, Ajit Pawar, now deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, has the potential to take charge of state affairs and that his MP-daughter, Supriya Sule, was keen to pursue her interests in national politics.

Pawar hints at nephew as successor in state politics

The coal ministry has released its own citizen&rsquo;s/client&rsquo;s charter for 2012 calender year with a resolve to augment production through government companies as well as captive mining route by adopting state-of-the-art and clean coal technologies with a view to improve productivity, safety, quality and ecology.

Coal Min citizen's charter '12 assures rise in production

To promote off-grid energy in remote and low-population density areas, the Forum of Regulators (FOR), has mooted an off-grid distributed generation-based distribution franchisee model.

FOR moots off-grid generation of power and supply model

Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar have taken centre stage in the run-up to the February elections to the 10 municipal corporations and 27 zilla parishads.

Thackeray, Pawar take centre stage in Maharashtra civic poll ring

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) will initiate process of non-compliance against 20 power utilities, which owe Rs 517.50 crore as transmission charges to the state-run PowerGrid Corporation.

Power regulator to crack the whip

The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MahaVitaran) has urged the Union ministries of power and petroleum to sanction further gas supply to the erstwhile Dabhol power project. Output, they say, has been severely hit due to cuts in supply from the Krishna-Godavari basin&rsquo;s D6 field.

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