Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi met the Prime Minister of Japan, H.E. Mr. Shinzo Abe on the margins of India-ASEAN and East Asia Summit 2019 at Bangkok on 04 November 2019. The two leaders have met with each other thrice in the last about four months, and their previous meeting was in Vladivostok in September 2019. The Prime Minister congratulated Prime Minister Abe on the recent coronation of the Emperor of Japan. Prime Minister Abe recalled warmly the participation of the President of India in the ceremony. Prime Minister Modi said that he eagerly looked forward to welcoming Prime Minister Abe…
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(Tribune) As many as 28 projects worth Rs350 crore, including construction of three flyovers, five roundabouts, five escalators and three smart parking lots, were today approved by the Board of Directors of Shimla Smart City Mission Limited. All projects have to be started before March 31, 2020, sources told The Tribune. The directors took up the 28 projects on priority as most of these did not need approval from the National Green Tribunal, which had banned construction in the green and core areas around three years ago. “Even if the NGT nod is needed, we will seek permission from the state…
(ET) The private players stayed away from the latest oilfield auction while the government received a total of eight bids, from ONGC and Oil India, for seven blocks on offer. ONGC has submitted bids for seven blocks and Oil India for one in the fourth round of the Open Acreage Licensing Programme (OALP), where bidding closed on Thursday, according to a statement on the website of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), the Oil Ministry arm that oversees oilfield auctions. No other company participated in the auction. This means ONGC will automatically get six blocks for lack of competition. For one…
(MercomIndia) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has issued an operation and maintenance (O&M) tender for a 50 MW solar project at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh for the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). A 250 MW, NTPC project, has been divided into five blocks, each of 50 MW. BHEL had constructed a block of 50 MW.According to Mercom’s India Solar Project Tracker, BHEL had won the bid to provide EPC services for the 50 MW solar project auctioned by NTPC out of the total 250 MW capacity at Mandsaur Solar Park in Madhya Pradesh in 2016.
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(PTI) Coal India’s production in October is likely to be 19-20 per cent lower at about 40 million tonne, as compared to 49.77 million tonne produced in the year-ago month, the output data suggested. The miner, which has a target to produce 57.17 million tonne for the month, has actually produced 37.92 million tonne of coal till October 30, according to the data. The coal behemoth had produced 30.77 million tonne in September this year. The data indicates that the miner’s rate-of-production has not been picked up, which led to a shortfall in the month. Coal India aspires to produce 660 million tonne of…
(ET) With the state power regulator allowing it to levy a fuel cost adjustment (FCA) surcharge, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) will charging an additional 5 paise per unit from all consumers for the first quarter of this fiscal year. The arrears will be charged retrospectively in the bills for the period from October 1 to December 31. As per the latest circular issued by the PSPCL, 5 paise/kWh is to be charged from metered connections, while Rs 3.18/kW/month or Rs 2.38/BHP/month or 5 paisa/kWh is to be charged from non-metered agricultural connections. The decision has also led to an increase in the…
(ET) Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav may soon embark on a statewide cycle yatra to mobilise party cadres. The route chart for the yatra is currently being worked out.Yadav, elated at the results of the recent by-elections where his party won three out of 11 seats and ranked in the second position in five seats, wants to sustain the momentum till the 2022 Assembly elections. The party did not only manage to retain its Rampur seat, but also bagged the Zaidpur and Ambedkar Nagar Assembly seats in the by-elections. The last time Akhilesh Yadav had embarked on a cycle yatra in the…
(ET) State-run Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL), which runs nuclear reactors across the country, said on Wednesday it had identified malware in one of its computers last month but its plant systems were unaffected.”The investigation revealed that the infected PC belonged to a user who was connected in the internet network used for administrative purposes. This is isolated from the critical internal network,” the utility said in a statement. On Tuesday, the NPCIL rejected media reports that its Russian-built reactors in Kudunkulam in southern India had suffered a cyber attack.
(PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday met Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav at his residence here. The chief minister reached Yadav’s residence at Vikramaditya Marg in the morning and extended Diwali greetings to him, a senior government official said. During the meeting, Mulayam Yadav’s brother and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) founder Shivpal Singh Yadav was also present.The official said it was a “courtesy meeting” to extend Diwali greetings. Adityanath had also met the 79-year-old former UP chief minister in June this year to enquire about his health.After meeting SP patriarch, Adityanath also met former Rajasthan Governor Kalyan…