Power and new and renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh said that the peak demand for power crossed 1,85,829 megawatt at 9:35 am on Wednesday

Peak power demand met grew at 1.7 per cent in September, 3.4 per cent in October, 3.5 per cent in November and 7.3 per cent in December

Madhya Pradesh is leading the states in power sector reforms with the initiation of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme

Setting up a BIC as a holding company or a core investment company was suggested by the P J Nayak Committee in its report on 'Governance of Boards of Banks in India'

The ministry informed that almost all the DISCOMS have issued online processes for this purpose and residential consumers willing to set up a rooftop solar plant under MNRE scheme can apply online and get rooftop solar plants installed by listed vendors

Coronavirus vaccine: The CoWIN app is being populated with the data of 1 crore healthcare workers who would receive the coronavirus vaccine in the first phase. So far only officials have access to it

The moves will further increase tensions with China, Washington's strategic rival in Asia, days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Wednesday

Stefan Thomas had invested in Bitcoin back when the currency was valued even less than $10. Currently, Thomas owns 7002 Bitcoins but is not able to access a single one

Running into 10 pages, the document was recently declassified in part by US National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien and now has been posted on the White House website

The amount under litigation includes Rs 4.05 lakh crore in corporation tax, Rs 3.97 lakh crore stuck in income tax cases and another Rs 1.54 lakh crore on account of commodities and services tax, the note said

The National Health Commission, which announced the arrival date, delayed from its early January schedule, did not detail the team's itinerary, however

It will be difficult to achieve Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream of making India a  $5 trillion economy if the steel and cement prices keep going up, Gadkari said

Natural gas is currently outside the ambit of GST, and existing legacy taxes -- central excise duty, state VAT, central sales tax -- continue to be applicable on the fuel

Tech Mahindra, Infosys, UltraTech Cement, Power Grid Corporation of India, NTPC, Sun Pharma, HCL technologies were among top gainers

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said democracy's enemies would be cheered by scenes of violence at the United States Capitol, and he called on Trump to accept US voters' decision

BEML stock touched an intraday high of Rs 1,040, rising 4.77% against previous close of Rs 992.65 on BSE

Lack of semiconductor manufacturing is turning out to be the biggest hurdle in India's tryst with self-reliance in electronics. It requires 'out of the box' thinking by government and industry

Stocks to watch today on January 6: HDFC, HDFC Bank, RIL, Bajaj Finance, Hero MotoCorp, Godrej Consumer among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Wednesday's trading session

Justice Sudhir Mittal has issued a notice of motion for February 8; Reliance, in its petition, has made Union Home Ministry, Department of Telecommunications, and Director General of Police and Chief Secretary of Punjab as respondents

West Bengal is the number one state in buying the dirtiest coal power in the country with most of the stations supplying electricity to the state having not taken adequate measures to comply with December 2015 sulphur dioxide norms notified by the government