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  • Telangana: Over 7L people to be charged ACD for non-payment of bills

    Telangana: Over 7L people to be charged ACD for non-payment of bills

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    Telangana: Over 7L people to be charged ACD for non-payment of bills

    Hyderabad: Telangana State Northern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSNPDCL) said that 7.16 lakh consumers who failed to pay their bills will be subjected to Advance Consumption Demand (ACD) charges.

    The power distribution company’s chairman and managing director A Gopal Rao on Thursday said that the pending bills in Telangana totalled about Rs 305 crore.

    “The decision was in line with the guidelines issued by the Telangana Electricity Regulatory Commission (TSERC) and notices regarding ACD charges were issued in January,” remarked the director.

    Gopal Rao further informed that the interest on the ACD charges would be calculated as per RBI guidelines and would be adjusted in the consumer’s bill.

    “The TSNPDCL has been collecting ACD, a refundable security charge from consumers by asking them to pay an amount equal to their electricity bill for two months,” added Gopal Rao.

    “ACD is based on the monthly average power consumed by each consumer for a year and collected in order to provide better services to consumers,” said the director.

    Dismission rumours being circulated on social media regarding ACD, Gopal Rao said that the TSNPDCL has not planned to increase the power tariff and claimed the news to be baseless.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Ex-Lebanese PM Hassan Diab charged in Beirut blast investigation

    Ex-Lebanese PM Hassan Diab charged in Beirut blast investigation

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    Beirut: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab has been charged with homicide with probable intent over the devastating Port of Beirut explosions in 2020 that killed at least 218 people.

    Tarek Bitar, a Lebanese judge tasked with investigating the explosions, also charged Abbas Ibrahim, chief of Lebanese General Security, State Security director Major General Tony Saliba, and former Lebanese army commander Jean Kahwaji, reports Xinhua news agency.

    Prosecutor-General Ghassan Oueidat, who was also charged in the Beirut blast investigation, announced on Tuesday his rejection of the decision issued earlier by Bitar, arguing that the judge was suspended from his investigation over a year ago.

    Bitar’s work had been interrupted for over a year following several complaints filed against him by two former ministers facing charges, forcing him to halt the probe.

    He resumed his work on Monday after a legal opinion said he should be allowed to continue his investigation.

    Primary investigations into the blast revealed that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate (equivalent to around 1.1 kilotons of TNT) stored since 2014 in a warehouse at the port caused the explosions, which injured 7,000 people, caused $15 billion in property damage, and left estimated 300,000 others homeless.

    The substance was stored at the warehouse after being confiscated by the Lebanese authorities from the abandoned ship MV Rhosus.

    The explosion was preceded by a fire in the same warehouse.

    The blast was so powerful that it physically shook the whole country of Lebanon.

    It was felt in Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, and Israel, as well as parts of Europe, and was heard in Cyprus, more than 240 km away.

    It was detected by the US Geological Survey as a seismic event of magnitude 3.3 and is considered one of the most powerful accidental artificial non-nuclear explosions in history.

    (Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )