(ET) Iran is ready to invest in the expansion of a South Indian refinery, an Iranian official said in New Delhi on Tuesday, as the country seeks new avenues of growth amid debilitating U.S. sanctions. Iran has seen a massive drop in export earnings which is eating into funds for social development. This has raised questions that it might not invest in the expansion of a refinery in South India where it already holds a minority stake. Iran’s participation has also been questioned after India cut back its Iranian crude oil imports following U.S. sanctions and stopped them completely from May. “We…
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(Tribune) India will start making ethanol from surplus and degraded food material like rotten potato, rotten wheat, broken rice and other biomass to achieve the milestone of 10 per cent ethanol blending with petrol by 2022. During the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, said Minimum Support Price (MSP) is not the only way to double farmers’ income, and the government believes value addition to their basic income will be an effective step. Pradhan was responding to a query raised by Kanumuru Raghurama Krishnaraju of YSR Congress, who wondered how the government…
(PTI) State-owned ONGC and Oil India Ltd alongside private sector VedantaNSE 0.09 % Ltd Tuesday walked away with almost all of the oil blocks auctioned in the latest licensing round as part of the government’s effort to raise domestic production. The winners of Open Acreage Licensing Policy (OALP) Round II and III, which closed earlier this year, signed exploration and production contracts with the government at a function here Tuesday. Speaking on the occassion, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said more production of oil and gas is priority of Modi-2.0 government as it looks to meet its rising energy demand of fast growing economy.
(ET) The next big goal of Modi 2.0 is to take its flagship ‘Ujjwala’ scheme to 80 million households within the first 100 days of the government. The scheme, which provides free cooking gas connections to female members of below poverty line families, has been hugely successful ever since its launch on May 1, 2016 and has also aided the ruling formation in the just-concluded general election. So far, Ujjwala connections have touched the 72-million mark. And, government officials said that taking it to 80 million would be worked upon on a war footing so that the original target of Ujjwala is…
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is all set to launch a special campaign in Delhi to sensitize and mobilise the community on measures for prevention and control of Vector Borne Diseases (VBDs) like Malaria, Dengue and Chikungunya. The three –day campaign will start from 17th July, 2019. Speaking on the eve of this campaign, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare stated that this three-day campaign is aimed at making the community a partner for checking vector/mosquito breeding across Delhi. “It is going to be a ‘Peoples Movement’ from 17th to 19th July, 2019 in Delhi…
(DJ) मंगलवार को आम आदमी पार्टी के राज्यसभा सदस्य संजय सिंह, एनडी गुप्ता और सुशील गुप्ता ने दिल्ली में बढ़ते अपराधों पर चिंता जताते हुए गृहमंत्री अमित शाह से मुलाकात कर ज्ञापन सौंपा। ज्ञापन के माध्यम से आप सांसदों ने दिल्ली की कानून व्यवस्था का जायजा लेने और उसमें सुधार करने तथा जरूरी कदम उठाने की बात कही। संजय सिंह ने ज्ञापन के माध्यम से गृह मंत्री अमित शाह को दिल्ली के मौजूदा हालातों से अवगत कराया। उन्होंने लिखा कि दिल्ली में दिन-ब-दिन अपराध बढ़ते जा रहे हैं। आए दिन सड़कों पर लूटपाट और हत्याओं के मामले देखने को मिलते…
(PTI) Pakistan opened its airspace for all civilian traffic on Tuesday morning, sources said, effectively removing the ban on Indian flights that were not allowed to use majority of its airspace since the Balakot air strikes in February. The move is expected to give a major relief to Air India, which suffered a huge financial loss of around Rs 491 crore as it had to re-route its various international flights due to the closure of the Pakistan airspace “Pakistan has permitted all airlines to fly through its airspace from around 12.41 am today. Indian airline operators will start using normal routes…
(PTI) BJP’s working president JP Nadda said the party’s membership drive party should ensure that it has reach among all sections of society. Addressing the heads of the various wings of the BJP here, Nadda said a social objective is also attached to the party’s membership drive that is to carry out cleanliness drive and plantation of trees at every polling booth across the country. “It is our responsibility that we keep doing our tasks but we should also evaluate it that how many people are joining the party and how strong it is becoming from our efforts,” Nadda was quoted as having…
(Hindustan) उपराष्ट्रपति एम वेंकैया नायडू ने रविवार को कहा कि भ्रष्टाचार खत्म करने के लिए लोगों और जमीन विवादों से निपटने वाले अधिकारियों का कम से कम आमना सामना होना चाहिए। उन्होंने केंद्र और राज्य सरकारों को भूमि लेन-देन की प्रक्रिया को सरल और उसे पारदर्शी बनाने का अनुरोध किया। ”लैंड रजिस्ट्रेशन, ग्लोबल प्रैक्टिसेज एंड लेसन्स फॉर इंडिया” किताब जारी करते हुए नायडू ने कहा कि पुराने कानून में समय-समय पर संशोधन होना चाहिए। उपराष्ट्रपति ने कहा, ”मुझे लगता है कि भ्रष्टाचार खत्म करने के लिए लोगों और पंजीकरण सहित भूमि के मुद्दों से निपटने वाले अधिकारियों का आमना-सामना न्यूनतम…
(ET) Coal India subsidiary, Northern Coalfields, headquartered some 195 kilometres from the historic city of Varanasi at Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh is all set to play an important role in giving new shape to the development of Varanasi. It has recently built a statue of Lal Bahadur Shastri at the Varanasi International Airport, named after the country’s second Prime Minister, and unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. Varanasi, also popularly known as Kashi happens to be Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Constituency. The Coal India arm which crossed 100 million tonnes production mark last year contributing to nearly 17% of…