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The rising temperatures and electricity demand have left the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) worried.

Over the past fortnight, the daily power demand in Punjab has reached between 7395 MW to 8490 MW. The power demand during the corresponding period last year rose to 1000 MW. The demand, however, reached over 13000 MW in July last year, which is usually around 12000 MW between June to September. The demand drops to 3000 from 6000 MW between October and May.

The unrestricted demand for power in Punjab increased from 11705 MW in 2017-18 to 13148 MW in 2020-21.

The power shortage is being linked to the erratic coal supply to the state's thermal power plants, resulting in a drop in power generation.

Journalist Rana Ayyub was today stopped at the Mumbai airport while on her way to London based on a Lookout Circular issued by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case.

"I was stopped today at the Indian immigration while I was about to board my flight to London to deliver my speech on the intimidation of journalists with International Center for Journalists. I was to travel to Italy right after to deliver the keynote address at the journalism festival on the Indian democracy," the journalist tweeted.

"All these events with Dr. Julie Posetti, Doughty Street International and the journalism festival have been planned and publicised all over my social media for weeks. Yet, curiously the Enforcement directorate summon arrived in my mail much after I was stopped at the immigration. What do you fear?" she said.

Don-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who came to Lucknow from Banda Jail in a case under the Gangster Act, has once again told the court that there is a threat to his life and has also complained about the lack of medical facilities in the jail.

The Uttar Pradesh police registered a case under the Gangster Act against jailed don-politician Mukhtar Ansari on Sunday. On Monday morning, he was taken out of Banda jail and shifted to Lucknow in an ambulance for a court hearing.

Mukhtar Ansari has once again expressed the possibility of a deadly attack. He said that pressure is being put not to testify against Brijesh Singh, who is lodged in Varanasi jail.

West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar recently inaugurated petascale supercomputer PARAM Shakti as part of the National Supercomputing Mission  at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.

Dhankar in this regard said the research will determine the development trajectory of a nation. Its aim is to give back to society and not the scale that matters more.© Provided by The Financial Express Dhankar in this regard said the research will determine the development trajectory of a nation. Its aim is to give back to society and not the scale that matters more.

The supercomputer will help researchers solve large-scale problems in various fields of science and engineering. Petascale computing refers to computing systems capable of calculating at least 1015 floating-point operations per second (1 petaFLOPS).