Tag: Ntpc

Angul: A dhaba (roadside eatery) owner was shot dead by two unidentified miscreants at NTPC market this afternoon. The deceased has been identified as Mangulu Pradhan. According to sources, 2 bike borne miscreants fired at Mangulu’s head and chest between 2 -2.15PM. Later Mangulu was shifted to hospital in critical condition where doctors declared him […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: State-run power giant NTPC and alumunium major Nalco on Friday signed an agreement to to set up a 2,400 MW coal fired power plant at Gajamara in Dhenkanal at an investment of Rs 14,000 crore to supply low cost electricity to the latter for aluminium production. The pact was inked in the presence […]

Bhubaneswar:  Buoyed by generation of 567 million extra units of thermal power so far this fiscal, NTPC’s Rs 13,000-crore Darlipali plant in Odisha’s Sundargarh district is set to be commissioned within a year. “The first unit of Darlipali plant with 800 MW capacity is expected to be commissioned by February 2018 and production will commence […]

Sundargarh: The State Government on Saturday signed a memorandum with the NTPC Ltd to set up a modern polytechnic college at Darlipali in Sundargarh district. The MoU was signed between the Department of Skill Development and Technical Education, Odisha and the NTPC in the presence Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at the Secretariat here. Technical Education […]

Talcher: The economic blockade called by Talcher Suraksha Manch demanding fulfillment of a 12-point charter of demands entered the second day on Tuesday. According to sources, the blockade has adversely affected coal production at all mines of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL). Transportation of coal to Nalco and NTPC has also come to a halt due […]

Sundargarh: A two-member special team of the Crime Branch arrived in the district today to probe into the NTPC land scam. Talking to media persons here, Crime Branch SP Ramesh Behera said some villagers of Darlipali village of Lefripada block under Bhasma police station including Ashok Raudia and Kishore Majhi have alleged that they are […]

Bhubaneswar: The state government has urged the Centre to sincerely look into the genuine concerns of the people of 27 villages in Jharsuguda district who will be affected by the upcoming super thermal power project of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Lara in Chhattisgarh bordering Odisha. In a letter to Union minister of […]

Bhubaneswar: With power generation breaking down in four units of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)’s Super Thermal Power Station (STPS) at Kahalgaon and five units at Farakka in West Bengal, there will be a six-and-half-hour power cut in two phases in Odisha on Tuesday. According to reports, the timing of power cut will be from […]

After the controversial Polavaram multi-purpose project in Andhra Pradesh, another project in a neighbouring state is all set to pit Odisha against the Centre. A fresh row is building up between the two over the upcoming super thermal power project by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Lara in Chhattisgarh bordering Odisha, if an exclusive report aired by OTV is anything to go by

Upbeat over generation of 242 million extra units so far this fiscal as against the previous year, NTPC today said its Rs 13,000-crore Darlipali thermal power plant in Odisha's Sundargarh district will be commissioned in two years

Companies having thermal power plant in Odisha will now have to transport fly ash free of cost to a road construction site located within 100 kms perimeter of their plant. A decision regarding this was taken at a joint meeting of NTPC and State Pollution Control Board here on Friday

NTPC Group companies have achieved over 100 Billion Units (BU) of cumulative generation in the current financial year at a much faster rate than last year.

New Delhi: Another NTPC boiler blast victim, brought to Safdarjung hospital here after suffering extensive burns in the accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli, died here on Sunday taking toll to 37. Identifying the deceased as Chandra Pratap, 22, a senior doctor from the hospital said he had suffered 80 per cent burns. Pratap was […]

New Delhi: The NTPC on Thursday said it has shut down a 500 MW unit at its Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Station in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh following the blast on Wednesday that claimed lives of 26 people. The company in a regulatory filing in the BSE said: “This is to inform that Unit […]

New Delhi: World football’s governing body FIFA on Tuesday roped in NTPC Limited and Dalmia Cement Bharat Limited as National Supporters for the Under-17 World Cup, which kicks off on October 6. Ranked 400th in the “2016 Forbes Global 2000” ranking of the world’s biggest companies, NTPC is India’s largest energy conglomerate. The company is […]