Even as Union Home Minister P Chidambaram appealed to political parties in Andhra Pradesh to restore peace, transport across the state was crippled on Tuesday.
Copenhagen: The world’s best spin-doctors couldn’t put much of a glow on the Copenhagen summit. Representatives of 120 countries gathered in the Danish capital with solemn pledges to draft an international treaty to fight man made climate change, but all that emerged was a vague text with a few good intentions and no firm commitments. It"s not much comfort to think that no treaty might be better than a hastily composed bad one.
Power Secretary H S Brahma today said the Ministry would soon approach the Finance Ministry for abolition of service tax on power transmission that could benefit end consumers by way of lower tariff.