(ET) One worker was killed and two others sustained serious burn injuries following a major fire at the Indian Oil Corp’s Panipatrefinery in Haryana, police said on Sunday. The fire started on Saturday night. Fire tenders were rushed to control the flames in the refinery belonging to the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. The22-year-old victim, Mohan Lal, who hailed from Sonipat district and was engaged by a contractor of the refinery, was trapped in the vacuum distillation unit. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, officials said. Sources said the incident took place when unit was being tested on Saturday night after an earlier shutdown. Gas began…
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(DJ) गोवा (Goa) के मुख्यमंत्री मनोहर पर्रीकर (Manohar Parrikar) का रविवार को निधन हो गया। पैंक्रियाटिक कैंसर से पिछले एक साल से जूझ रहे 63 वर्षीय पर्रीकर ने रविवार शाम को अंतिम सांस ली। राष्ट्रपति रामनाथ कोविंद, प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी समेत विभिन्न राजनीतिक दलों के नेताओं ने पर्रीकर के निधन पर गहरा दुख व्यक्त किया है। केंद्र सरकार ने 18 मार्च को एक दिन का राष्ट्रीय शोक घोषित किया है। उनका अंतिम संस्कार सोमवार शाम को किया जाएगा। पर्रीकर के निधन से पूरे देश में शोक की लहर है। मनोहर पर्रीकर को पूरे राजकीय सम्मान के साथ अंतिम विदाई दी…
(PTI) Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra kicked off her party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh on Monday by offering prayers at the Lette Hanuman temple near Sangam. During her three-day visit, Priyanka will cover a distance of 100-km by boat in Ganga from Allahabad to Varanasi — the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hopping from one temple to another. Her Ganga cruise is being seen by political observers as an effort to navigate her party out of a nearly three-decade long wilderness in the state. The Congress general secretary in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh…
(PTI) The nomination process for eight seats in Uttar Pradesh going to the Lok Sabha polls in the first phase began on Monday, a senior election official said. Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddh Nagar will vote on April 11 in the first of the seven-phase general elections. The Election Commission Monday issued a notification signed by President Ram Nath Kovind for the first phase of the election. The nomination process would continue till March 25. Scrutiny of the nomination papers will be held on March 26 and the last day of withdrawing nominations is March 28. Nearly 1.50…
(PTI) Union minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Monday held talks here with party leaders and alliance partner Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) to select a new Goa chief minister following the death of Manohar Parrikar. The BJP-led coalition in Goa began discussions on Sunday night to find a new leader to replace Parrikar, who had died earlier in the evening. Parrikar, 63, was heading a coalition government comprising the BJP, the Goa Forward Party (GFP), the MGP and Independents.Gadkari arrived in the coastal state past midnight and resumed the talks with leaders of the BJP and MGP at a…
(PTI) Engineering and construction firm Punj Lloyd Wednesday said it has won an arbitration award worth over USD 4.98 million (about Rs 34 crore) with respect to a project in Maharashtra. It said the arbitration award pertained to Heera Redevelopment Project. “The Arbitration Tribunal in the matter of Punj lloyd Ltd & Anr vis Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd in respect of Heera Redevelopment Project, has given an award in favor of Punj lloyd Limited for an amount of USD 4,985,866.37 with interest @ 9 per cent p.a from due date till the date of payment/ realization,” the company said in a filing to the BSE. It said the award mentions payment of a further…
(DJ) 30,000 प्रदूषण फैलाने वाली औद्योगिक इकाइयों को बंद किए जाने के बावजूद केवल 692 इकाइयों की ही बिजली आपूर्ति काटे जाने के मामले में सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने दिल्ली सरकार से जवाब मांगा है। जस्टिस अरुण मिश्रा और जस्टिस दीपक गुप्ता की पीठ ने राज्य सरकार द्वारा आवासीय और गैर-अनुरूप क्षेत्रों में प्रदूषणकारी इलाकों के खिलाफ कार्रवाई में लापरवाही करने पर सख्त ऐतराज जताया। इस मामले की अगली सुनवाई एक अप्रैल को होगी। दिल्ली सरकार ने पिछले महीने कोर्ट को बताया था कि उसने दिल्ली में 30,000 प्रदूषण फैलाने वाली औद्योगिक इकाइयों को बंद कर दिया और इनकी बिजली आपूर्ति…
(ET) Delivering the keynote address at the fifth edition of the Times Network’s Digital India Summit, Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister for Law & Justice and Electronics & Information Technology, highlighted the key contributing factors in achieving the $1 trillion digital dream. “India could be a $3 trillion (digital) economy in the next four to five years. That is the goal we have set. Digital India is designed to empower ordinary Indians. Our idea is to make India the biggest manufacturing hub in electronics with 1crore employment in the electronics sector and 35-40 lakhs in the software sector,” said Prasad. Prasad…
(ET) State oil companies have paused the process to appoint dealers for about 50,000 petrol pumps following the release of election schedule to avoid any potential political landmine ahead of polls, people familiar with the matter said. Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum have been seeking to appoint petrol pump dealers at about 78,500 locations across the country. The advertisements went out in November and applications have already been received.In all, 95% of locations received interest with 39% getting single application and 56% multiple. The three companies have already declared winners for about a third of the locations advertised…
(Hindustan) उप्र के उप मुख्यमंत्री केशव प्रसाद मौर्य ने कहा है कि राज्य के मतदाता केवल अमेठी और रायबरेली में ही नहीं बल्कि प्रदेश की सभी अस्सी सीटों पर पूरी तरह से फाइनल स्ट्राइक कर 2019 में नरेंद्र मोदी को दूसरी बार प्रधानमंत्री बनाने के लिये तैयार हैं। उन्होंने कहा कि मोदी को दोबारा प्रधानमंत्री बनाने के लिए जितना प्रयास भाजपा का कार्यकर्ता कर रहा है उससे अधिक प्रयास प्रदेश और देश की जनता भी कर रही है। उन्होंने न्यूज एजेंसी भाषा से बातचीत में कहा कि आगामी लोकसभा चुनावों में मुददा विकास का है, राष्ट्रवाद का है, मुददा गरीबी मिटाने का…