PATNA: With the Bihar legislature's budget session beginning on Tuesday, checking corruption and procuring power, along with increased spending on education, agriculture and health care are the prime focus of the State budget to be presented by Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on February 25.

In his inaugural address to both Houses of the legislature, Governor Debanand Konwar said 394 ca

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 its main link to source coal.

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THE Indian Railways has approached Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for setting up 1000 mw of captive nuclear capacity on its behalf. The proposal put forward by the Indian Railways includes setting up two units of 500 mw on railway land.

Saran Renewable Energy is bringing power to the people in Bihar
Tapash Talukdar

TEENAGERS IN Saran district of Bihar have found a new idol. Their elders may still want them to become an engineer or a civil servant, but they would rather turn entrepreneur and do something for their villages, just the way 32-year old Vivek Gupta did.

N. Gopal Raj

A simple and strictly local power generation system has proved that rural Indian communities are willing and able to pay for reliable electricity.

A technology that converts rice husk into electricity is gaining ground in Bihar. Some 100,000 households in the state already use electricity produced from biomass and their number is steadily growing.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday demanded an additional allocation of at least 300 Mega Watt power for the State from the Centre to tide over the drought like situation in wake of poor monsoon.