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Bihar to buy 1,000 MW to provide power to all by 2015 Lucknow, May 29 (IANS) The deadlock between the state government and protesting power board staff, who threatened an indefinite strike from Wednesday, ended late Tuesday as the Uttar Pradesh ...

What is Change really like in Bihar? Once denounced as a failed state, what turnaround has Bihar made in recent years? Archana Masih reports from India's other most talked about state. When our family of four made trips from Chhapra in north Bihar to grandfather's home in Chanpatia in the Champaran district 20 to 30 years ago, the trip took two train journeys, at times also a bus, and then a tonga ride from the station, which was a narrow platform with round benches under trees. The story went ...

Lenders have decided to tweak the financial restructuring package (FRP) for Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB). According to the revised terms, the banks will now finance 100 per cent of TNEB's cash loss, as against 70 per cent decided earlier, for ...

As many as 10 states have come on board to avail of Centre's ambitious financial restructuring scheme for discoms, the Ministry of Power said today. "The states which have conveyed their in-principle willingness to participate in the scheme as on ...

aim to offer better service to consumers in Bihar, power holding companies in the state have decided to extend their working day by a day. The employees will now work from Monday to Saturday with immediate effect instead of the earlier five-day ...

After a series of reform measures initiated by the government in recent months to overhaul the electricity distribution system, the power sector seems to be back in favour with investors. Historically, the same investors have been concerned about ...

NEW DELHI: The timely onset of monsoon in most parts of the country has led to a reduction in electricity demand by up to a fifth, improving power supply and easing pressure on prices. Delhi, which has the highest per capita power consumption in ...

"There is no politics in GST... It will not fetch any votes to any political party." This is how Sushil Kumar Modi, Bihar's finance minister and chair of the Empowered Committee (EC) of State Finance Ministers, summarised his description of the ...

'We had become buffoons with Lalu. If you were a Bihari you were seen as a buffoon -- that has changed. Now there's a pride in being a Bihari.' Part I: 'We took a U-turn under Nitish Kumar' Seven years after Nitish Kumar became chief minister, the image of the state may have been boosted; but the quest for Bihari pride will remain unfulfilled until chronic failings like illiteracy and malnutrition are adressed, notes Archana Masih in the concluding part of her reportage on the changes in Bihar.