PTI India has recorded 609 new cases of Covid, while the number of active cases of the infection has declined to 3,368, the health ministry said on Friday. Three deaths — two in Kerala and one in Karnataka — have been reported in a span of 24 hours, according to the ministry’s data updated at 8 am. The number of daily cases had dropped to double-digits till December 5, 2023 but cases began to increase after emergence of a new variant and cold weather conditions. After December 5, 841 new cases were reported on December 31, 2023 which was 0.2…
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HT The Union government will facilitate the setting up of one cooperative society in every village, which can now enter the retail pharma business and bridge healthcare gaps in rural India by dispensing inexpensive generic medicines, Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah said on Monday. India will have nearly 200,000 primary agricultural cooperative societies or PACS in the next five years, up from about 63,000 now, which will act as business centres and boost the rural economy, Shah said, launching a national conclave of cooperative societies with representatives from five states. Shah said 241 PACS have so far opened…
HT Less than a month away from the presentation of the interim Union Budget 2024, a senior finance ministry official has said that no rebate is expected on income tax for the upcoming financial year, reported Moneycontrol on Tuesday. On January 9, a senior official from the Finance Ministry told Moneycontrol, “There is no such proposal,” when asked about any potential hike in the tax rebate in FY2024-2025. Earlier, there were speculations that the Finance Ministry will include a proposal that the personal income tax rebate be increased from the current ₹7 lakh to ₹7.5 lakh during the interim budget. However, the report has…
DJ रक्षा मंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने मंगलवार को कहा कि भारत और ब्रिटेन मजबूत रणनीतिक संबंध चाहते हैं और इस दिशा में काम भी कर रहे हैं। उन्होंने मंगलवार को अपने ब्रिटिश समकक्ष ग्रांट शाप्स से मुलाकात की। इस दौरान रक्षा सहयोग, सुरक्षा एवं रक्षा औद्योगिक सहयोग बढ़ाने से जुड़े विभिन्न मुद्दों पर दोनों के बीच बातचीत हुई। राजनाथ 22 साल में ब्रिटेन की यात्रा करने वाले पहले भारतीय रक्षा मंत्री हैं। इससे पूर्व भारत की ओर से तत्कालीन रक्षा मंत्री जार्ज फर्नांडिस की ब्रिटेन यात्रा जनवरी 2002 में हुई थी। रक्षा मंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने एक्स पर एक पोस्ट…
PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held a bilateral meeting here on Tuesday and hailed the rapidly transforming India-UAE partnership, officials said. Four MoUs were signed between India and the UAE in the presence of the two leaders, including one between the Gujarat government and DP World, a multinational logistics company based in Dubai, they said. This was the fourth meeting between Modi and Al Nahyan in less than seven months. “Giving a boost to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership! PM @narendramodi held warm discussions with HH @MohamedBinZayed, UAE President and Ruler of…
PTI ArcelorMittal will build the world’s single biggest steel manufacturing factory at Hazira in Gujarat by 2029, company’s executive chairman Lakshmi Mittal said on Wednesday. The factory will have a capacity of 24 million tonne per annum, he said speaking at the 10th Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit here. He said ArcelorMittal has signed MoUs with the Gujarat government for phase two of the Hazira plant in the summit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had done the ‘bhumi puja’ for the first phase of the plant in 2021 and the construction is going on as per schedule for commissioning in 2026, Mittal…
TSG State run GAIL (India) Limited and Vitol Asia Pte Ltd, have announced the signing of a long term Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) deal into India for a supply of approximately one million metric tons of LNG per annum for a period of about 10 years, commencing 2026. Under this deal, Vitol will deliver LNG from its global LNG portfolio to GAIL in India on a pan-India basis. As a leading natural gas company gas trading, GAIL has formidable presence in India’s transmission, LPG production & transmission company. This long term LNG deal with Vitol by GAIL will augment its large (LNG) portfolio and will…
TH Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri reiterated here on Sunday that some States, including Kerala, were responsible for not bringing the petrol and diesel prices down. Addressing the media, Mr. Puri said that the Union government had slashed the central excise duty two times in the last two years. Although the people in Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)-ruled States had benefited from that as the State governments too reduced their taxes, some States did not allow the people to enjoy those benefits, he said. “I haven’t come here to blame anyone on…
BS State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is seeking a premium over the government gas price for the gas it plans to produce from coal seams in Jharkhand. ONGC has sought bids from users for sale of 0.05 million standard cubic metres per day of gas from the North Karanpura coal-bed methane (CBM) block for three years. Users have been asked to quote a premium they are willing to pay over and above the monthly domestic natural gas price that the Oil Ministry’s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) notifies, the tender document showed. PPAC every month declares a…
BS India’s fuel consumption rose to a seven-month high in December to about 20.054 million metric tonnes, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed. Total consumption, a proxy for oil demand, in December rose by 6.2 per cent from 18.89 million tonnes in November, data showed. It was up around 2.6 per cent compared with the same period a year earlier. Sales of diesel, mainly used by trucks and commercially-run passenger vehicles, rose by 0.9 per cent month-on-month to 7.60 million tonnes. Sales of gasoline in December slipped 4.5 per cent from the…