Pune : Eighteen weeks pregnant, she had two weeks left to have a legal abortion. Yet every private hospital in Pune turned her away, with gynaecologists afraid to touch her. The hapless woman thought of seeking help from the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) unit of state-run Sassoon General Hospital …
Pune : Eighteen weeks pregnant, she had two weeks left to have a legal abortion. Yet every private hospital in Pune turned her away, with gynaecologists afraid to touch her. The hapless woman thought of seeking help from the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) unit of state-run Sassoon General Hospital …
MUMBAI: Maharashtra's 13 power-generating plants, which supply power to the state and 30 other industrial units, are among the country's top 478 manufacturing establishments guzzling a major chunk of the country's fuel, mainly furnace oil. These set-ups have been asked by the union power ministry to reduce their current energy …
While power demand has peaked with summer setting in, the state-owned power generation utility has been unable to generate electricity from a 500-megawatt (MW) unit due to coal shortages. The Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (MahaGenco) has a total of 920MW of capacity under planned and forced outages. Maharashtra's …
Jalandhar: After the successful trial of the first horticulture train, a specially-created temperature-maintained, 1,600-MT capacity train, from Bhusawal in Maharashtra to Azadpur mandi in New Delhi a couple of days ago, the Centre plans to introduce a similar train for Punjab. P K Basu, secretary, agriculture and cooperation, Government of …
MUMBAI: Electricity bills could go up as the government has decided to levy an additional duty and tax on electricity produced and sold in the state. While the levy would be applicable to power generation and distribution companies, it could be passed on to the consumer. The fund collected through …
Claiming that Maharashtra is on its way to wipe out the electricity shortage and achieve self-sufficiency in power generation, governor K Sankarnarayanan today said the state will be free of load shedding by 2012. After hoisting the tricolour here on the Republic Day, he said, "I am sure that the …
