Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
With a record power capacity addition of 15,795 MW in 2010-11, Union power minister Sushilkumar Shinde has set his eyes on an even more ambitious target of adding 28,000 MW in the current fiscal.
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest has decided to withhold forest clearance to Sutlej basin Shongtang-Karcham (450 MW) hydel project in Kinnaur district of Himachal Prdaesh, but has decided to give its go-ahead to Chanju-I (36MW)
The government is planning to allow developers of ultra mega power projects to use surplus coal from allocated blocks for other projects in which they hold majority stake. The coal ministry, which is in the process of drafting a policy on use of surplus coal, will soon seek the law …
A proposed joint venture between the Indian Railways and NTPC for setting up a 1,320 MW thermal power plant in West Bengal has been caught in a tussle between the railway ministry and Bihar government over issues relating to a similar joint venture. The power plant, proposed to be set …
The Delhi Cabinet has given an in-principal approval for setting up the 750-MW Pragati-II power plant at Bamnauli, a project that has been under discussion for a long time. The Bamnauli project is integral to the Delhi
The country's largest power producer NTPC may revive its plans to set up coal and gas-based power projects in Nigeria, a proposal scrapped by the company earlier due to a delay in finalising a partner for the proposed venture in the African nation.
NTPC, India's biggest power producer, is in talks with Toshiba Corp to build a pilot project in India for capturing and storing carbon emissions, a Toshiba official said. The Japanese power equipment maker aims to develop its first 5-megawatt carbon capture plant in India by 2016, said, Kenji Urai, managing …
Feb. 9: NTPC, the largest power utility in the country, has been bestowed the honour of being the most respected company in the power sector for the year 2011 by Businessworld. The award was presented by Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to NTPC CMD Arup Roy Choudhury at a function …
POWER generation major NTPC will soon see 7% of its generation vanish off the grid, thanks to wagon breakers who managed to topple a rake carrying coal to its Kahalgaon Thermal Power station in Bihar, rendering the track unusable for at least 4-5 days. This track, owned by NTPC, is …
KORBA (CHHATTISGARH): An immense expanse of fine grey fly-ash stretches out to meet the distant horizon, its flat surface rippled by slow-spinning whirlwinds. Seen from the road, the National Thermal Power Corporation's (NTPC) ash pond rises up like an enormous ziggurat of expired embers, with a base nearly 1,120 acres …
NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVN) was formed by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited, as a wholly owned subsidiary with a vision to be a catalyst in the development of the wholesale power market in India, enabling the trading of surplus power.
BJP Lok Sabha MP from Godda (Jharkhand) Nishikant Dubey has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, threatening to block coal mining operations of Coal India Ltd (CIL) and enforce economic blockade against the CIL and NTPC in Santhal Pargana region as these two are
Bhel, NTPC & IGCAR Join Hands For Project A 800-MW coal-fired power project based on more efficient advanced ultra supercritical thermal power technology is being set up jointly by BHEL, NTPC and Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR). The . 10,000-crore plant being developed by IGCAR would be 5% …
The recent decision of the Board of Directors of public sector National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to award a mine development contract worth `25,000 crore to an Australian company has caused widespread concern in industry and political circles. Two Congress MPs have raised serious objections and accused the Power Ministry …
TALCHER: Coal supply to NTPC-owned Talcher Super Thermal Power plant (TSTPP) from Lingaraj coal mine came to a halt today following agitation by villagers. Hundreds of Balugana villagers led by local sarpanch Rangadhar Nahak stopped all activities, including transport, in the mine. They also laid siege to the offices of …
