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The Uttar Pradesh power department has fined a former district president of the Samajwadi Party Rs 54 lakh in connection with an electricity theft case, an official said on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh Education department has sent a show cause notice to the management of a private school in Aligarh district for allegedly intimidating children with threats of "electric chair" and also failure to renew its permit to conduct classes.

Four Varanasi power department officers were told to feed orphanage inmates in 'punishment' for inflating an electricity bill to more than 2 lakh, claiming the charges were pending since 1911 for a house connection.

A jet belonging to Tesla CEO Elon Musk departed Shanghai on Thursday, Chinese flight-tracking data showed, as the tycoon wraps up a visit to China that has seen him express hopes to expand business in the world's largest market for electric vehicles.

Electric vehicles (EV) accounted for nearly 15 percent of all vehicles sold in Delhi in March, with a total of 7,926 EVs, both four-wheelers and two-wheelers. According to the transport department, 1.12 lakh EVs have been sold under the Delhi Electric Vehicles Policy that was implemented in 2020.

Taking serious note of the strike by employees of the Uttar Pradesh electricity department, the Allahabad High Court today said demands cannot be made at the cost of life of people and asked why the striking employees have not been arrested.

Power supply disruption played spoilsport during a programme attended by two Uttar Pradesh ministers in Greater Noida on Sunday, amid a statewide strike by a section of the electricity department employees that was called off later in the day.

Uttar Pradesh electricity department employees on Sunday ended their 72-hour strike after several rounds of talks between their leaders and state energy minister A K Sharma.

A Samajwadi Party legislator was named in a police chargesheet filed in connection with a case registered against him for attacking an electricity department official and destroying official papers.

US has been ramping up supply chain for batteries

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has set up a 'Pillay Chair Professor” in its department of Electrical Engineering.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today alleged that people of Uttar Pradesh are reeling under the "loot" of electricity bills in the BJP-ruled state and said this will be ended when her party comes to power.

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) in the US — in collaboration with Purdue University — has come up with an idea to develop what's going to be the world's first wireless-charging concrete pavement highway segment.

Tata Motors has delivered an undisclosed number of Tata Tigor EV electric subcompact sedans to Goa's Department of New & Renewable Energy (DNRE). This is one of the new batches of Tigor EVs which the home-grown automaker has been supplying to government organisation as part of the Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) tender.

Fifteen lakh electricity department employees including junior engineers, sub-divisional officers, executive engineers and superintending engineers will go on a day-long boycott of work on Monday to oppose the proposal of privatising power distribution company Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited.

The Uttar Pradesh power department has fined a former district president of the Samajwadi Party Rs 54 lakh in connection with an electricity theft case, an official said on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh Education department has sent a show cause notice to the management of a private school in Aligarh district for allegedly intimidating children with threats of "electric chair" and also failure to renew its permit to conduct classes.

Four Varanasi power department officers were told to feed orphanage inmates in 'punishment' for inflating an electricity bill to more than 2 lakh, claiming the charges were pending since 1911 for a house connection.

A jet belonging to Tesla CEO Elon Musk departed Shanghai on Thursday, Chinese flight-tracking data showed, as the tycoon wraps up a visit to China that has seen him express hopes to expand business in the world's largest market for electric vehicles.

Electric vehicles (EV) accounted for nearly 15 percent of all vehicles sold in Delhi in March, with a total of 7,926 EVs, both four-wheelers and two-wheelers. According to the transport department, 1.12 lakh EVs have been sold under the Delhi Electric Vehicles Policy that was implemented in 2020.

Taking serious note of the strike by employees of the Uttar Pradesh electricity department, the Allahabad High Court today said demands cannot be made at the cost of life of people and asked why the striking employees have not been arrested.

Power supply disruption played spoilsport during a programme attended by two Uttar Pradesh ministers in Greater Noida on Sunday, amid a statewide strike by a section of the electricity department employees that was called off later in the day.

Uttar Pradesh electricity department employees on Sunday ended their 72-hour strike after several rounds of talks between their leaders and state energy minister A K Sharma.

A Samajwadi Party legislator was named in a police chargesheet filed in connection with a case registered against him for attacking an electricity department official and destroying official papers.

US has been ramping up supply chain for batteries

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has set up a 'Pillay Chair Professor” in its department of Electrical Engineering.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today alleged that people of Uttar Pradesh are reeling under the "loot" of electricity bills in the BJP-ruled state and said this will be ended when her party comes to power.

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) in the US — in collaboration with Purdue University — has come up with an idea to develop what's going to be the world's first wireless-charging concrete pavement highway segment.

Tata Motors has delivered an undisclosed number of Tata Tigor EV electric subcompact sedans to Goa's Department of New & Renewable Energy (DNRE). This is one of the new batches of Tigor EVs which the home-grown automaker has been supplying to government organisation as part of the Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) tender.

Fifteen lakh electricity department employees including junior engineers, sub-divisional officers, executive engineers and superintending engineers will go on a day-long boycott of work on Monday to oppose the proposal of privatising power distribution company Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited.