Tamil Nadu Power Cuts

While many residents in the rain-affected parts of the city were grappling with power cuts, the state government has said that their main focus is to bring back normalcy and that 80 per cent of the power supply has already been restored.

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A Chennai family's four-day ordeal ended when the Yoganandans who have been locked up in their Narayanapuram home decided to check into a hotel.

There could be a blackout in the national capital in the next two days if coal supplies to power plants do not improve, a Delhi minister said today.

Power supply to the Sterlite copper smelter plant in Tuticorin has been cut after Tamil Nadu's pollution regulator found that the plant was "carrying out activities to resume production", violating orders in April to halt production. The action comes at a time the government is struggling to cap national outrage over the police killing 12 people pr...

Tamil Nadu government today said there have been no power cuts since June 2015 in the state, prompting it to relax a condition that electricity produced by private players in the state has to be sold only to it.

The Department of Posts has decided to tap solar energy to manage disruption in power as supply was hit during the rains in Chennai and suburbs last week.

Assuring potential investors about comfortable power supply, Tamil Nadu's Electricity Minister Natham R. Viswanathan today said the era of power cut is over in the state.

Two hundred and thirty six textile dyeing and processing factories in the district have been sealed for violating pollution control board norms, their licenses cancelled and power connections cut off, according to environment minister Thoppu N. Venkatachalam.

With power cuts reportedly continuing in some parts of the state, PMK founder S Ramadoss today urged the Tamil Nadu government to speed up various solar and thermal power projects to manage the situation.

Power cuts continue to plague Tamil Nadu, in spite of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's emphatic promise that the state will not witness any more cuts after June 1.

Crippling power cuts lasting for hours have been a major issue for Tamil Nadu in the last six years. Many parts of the state have witnessed power cuts of up to 16 hours.

With the polls over, the power crisis has returned to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Power cuts in the Bangalore and Hyderabad were almost nil ahead of voting day.

The family of a Chennai journalist has blamed a power cut for the death of their 41-year-old son, who died at the Intensive Care Unit of the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital.

Day one of the two-hour-long power cut turned chaotic this morning at the home of Ms Sujata Vijay in Chennai's RA Puram area. The power went off at 8, crippling her kitchen appliances.

While many residents in the rain-affected parts of the city were grappling with power cuts, the state government has said that their main focus is to bring back normalcy and that 80 per cent of the power supply has already been restored.

Coal Shortage: Three most industrialised states plan to import 10.5 million tonnes of coal as officials scramble to arrest widespread power cuts

A Chennai family's four-day ordeal ended when the Yoganandans who have been locked up in their Narayanapuram home decided to check into a hotel.

There could be a blackout in the national capital in the next two days if coal supplies to power plants do not improve, a Delhi minister said today.

Power supply to the Sterlite copper smelter plant in Tuticorin has been cut after Tamil Nadu's pollution regulator found that the plant was "carrying out activities to resume production", violating orders in April to halt production. The action comes at a time the government is struggling to cap national outrage over the police killing 12 people pr...

Tamil Nadu government today said there have been no power cuts since June 2015 in the state, prompting it to relax a condition that electricity produced by private players in the state has to be sold only to it.

The Department of Posts has decided to tap solar energy to manage disruption in power as supply was hit during the rains in Chennai and suburbs last week.

Assuring potential investors about comfortable power supply, Tamil Nadu's Electricity Minister Natham R. Viswanathan today said the era of power cut is over in the state.

Two hundred and thirty six textile dyeing and processing factories in the district have been sealed for violating pollution control board norms, their licenses cancelled and power connections cut off, according to environment minister Thoppu N. Venkatachalam.

With power cuts reportedly continuing in some parts of the state, PMK founder S Ramadoss today urged the Tamil Nadu government to speed up various solar and thermal power projects to manage the situation.

Power cuts continue to plague Tamil Nadu, in spite of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's emphatic promise that the state will not witness any more cuts after June 1.

Crippling power cuts lasting for hours have been a major issue for Tamil Nadu in the last six years. Many parts of the state have witnessed power cuts of up to 16 hours.

With the polls over, the power crisis has returned to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Power cuts in the Bangalore and Hyderabad were almost nil ahead of voting day.

The family of a Chennai journalist has blamed a power cut for the death of their 41-year-old son, who died at the Intensive Care Unit of the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital.

Day one of the two-hour-long power cut turned chaotic this morning at the home of Ms Sujata Vijay in Chennai's RA Puram area. The power went off at 8, crippling her kitchen appliances.