The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has said the rollout of the Smart City projects will help New Delhi emerge as a world class city. Inaugurating a slew of Smart City projects undertaken by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) here today, Shri Rajnath Singh said the NDMC has set an example before other aspiring Smart Cities in the country to follow. He recalled that New Delhi was among the 20 cities included in January, 2016 in the First Phase of the Smart City Mission announced by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The various projects inaugurated by Shri…
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(LiveMint) India’s retail inflation decelerated to 4.17% in July from 4.92% a month ago on the back of softening food prices, data released on Monday by the Central Statistics Office showed. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its monetary policy review on 1 August increased its policy rate by 25 basis points for the second time in two months, blaming rising inflation risks. The RBI also raised its inflation outlook to 4.8% in the second half (October-March) of 2018-19 from its earlier projection of 4.7%. The June round of the RBI’s survey of households reported a further uptick of 20…
(Hindustan) सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने हापुड़ में गोवध के संदेह में दो लोगों पर कथित रूप से उग्र भीड़ के हमले की घटना के मामले में यूपी सरकार को नोटिस जारी किया है। इस हमले में एक मांस कारोबारी की मौत हो गई थी। कोर्ट ने मेरठ रेंज के पुलिस महानिरीक्षक (आईजी) को मामले की जांच कर दो सप्ताह में रिपोर्ट पेश करने का निर्देश दिया है। मुख्य न्यायाधीश दीपक मिश्रा की पीठ ने इस हमले में जख्मी हुए समीउद्दीन की याचिका पर राज्य सरकार को नोटस जारी किया है। याचिका में घटना की जांच विशेष जांच दल (एसआईटी) से कराने…
(AU) सरकारी तेल कंपनी इंडियन ऑयल कॉर्पोरेशन (आईओसी) घरों में पाइपलाइन के जरिये रसोई गैस पहुंचाने की योजना बना रही है। इसके मद्देनजर देश की सबसे बड़ी खुदरा तेल कंपनी आईओसी अब अपने पारंपरिक तेल शोधन और विपणन कार्यक्रम की तरह ही गैस कारोबार पर बड़ा दांव लगाने की तैयारी में है। इंडियन ऑयल की शहरी गैस वितरण परियोजनाओं में अगले 5 से 8 वर्षों में 20,000 करोड़ रुपये निवेश की योजना है। कंपनी के चेयरमैन संजीव सिंह ने यह जानकारी दी। कंपनी को उम्मीद है कि सीएनजी ने आज वाहनों में पेट्रोल और डीजल के इस्तेमाल को कुछ हद…
Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, Shipping, Road Transport & Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari inaugurated 20 newly constructed/ restored Ghats on river Ganga in Kanpur and Bithoortoday .The Minister also announced projects to tackle pollution from two of Kanpur’s biggest pollution hotspots – Jajmau- a source of industrial effluents and Sisamau – source of domestic sewage. Shri Gadkari announced that a20 MLD Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) has been approved forJajmau at an estimated cost of Rs. 554 crore (phase-1) for the treatment of effluent from tanneries.In addition, he also announced that the complete tapping of SisamauNalawould be done…
(PTI) The Amarnath Yatra was suspended from Jammu today due to inclement weather, officials said. The pilgrimage was suspended from Bagwatinagar base camp in the state’s winter capital city as heavy rains and bad weather resulted in the closure of the highway, they said. No pilgrim was allowed to proceed towards the cave shrine from Jammu, they said. The 60-day annual yatra commenced from the twin tracks on June 28 and it would conclude on August 26 coinciding with Raksha Bandhan festival. Till last evening, 2,78,878 pilgrims had paid their obeisance at the cave shrine. However, the number of pilgrims undertaking the pilgrimage marked…
(PTI) Billionaire Gautam Adani’s group has bagged licences to retail gas in 21 cities in the latest city gas distribution bid round that saw state-owned Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd’s unit and Torrent Gas emerging as the other big winners. Adani Gas won rights to retail CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households and industries in 13 cities on its own and another nine, including Allahabad, in joint venture with state-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC), according to results of 78 out of the86 cities that were bid out in the country’s biggest city gas distribution (CGD) bid round. According to…
(ET) BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday said the party will win 74 of the 80 parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 elections.It is possible to achieve this target on the basis of the “good work” done by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre and of Yogi Adityanath in the state, he said at the concluding session of a two-day state party Executive Meet. “Law and order in the state has improved considerably. Pro-poor schemes have been initiated initiated and the work done by the BJP governments will ensure that the party gets 51…
(ET) The government is considering yet another giant rescue package to make state-owned Air India commercially viable following the failure of its disinvestment plan earlier this year. This will include a Rs 30,000 crore loan write-off and a cash infusion of Rs 10,000-11,000 crore, said people with knowledge of the matter. Accumulated losses will also be written off as part of the package that’s being considered by the finance ministry, allowing the company to clean up its balance sheet, said the people cited above. “Small cash infusions are not making any dent. We want to put the airline in a…
(Hindustan) नैनीताल सहित कुमाऊं के अन्य जिलों में रविवार सुबह से झमाझम बारिश हो रही है। बारिश से जहां हल्द्वानी, रुद्रपुर सहित अन्य शहरों की सड़कों पर जलभराव हुआ, वहीं मलबा आने से कई सड़कें भी बंद हुईं। नैनीताल में सुबह से मूसलाधार बारिश जारी है। हालांकि रविवार होने के कारण स्कूली बच्चों को राहत है। यहां नैनीताल-हल्द्वानी मोटर मार्ग पर नैनागांव के समीप मलबा आने से यातायात बाधित हो गया। आपदा प्रबंधन विभाग के मुताबिक जिले के अड़िया-छड़, नैनीताल-वैभरली, काठगोदाम-हैड़ाखान ग्रामीण मार्ग बंद हैं। वहीं रुद्रपुर में तेज बारिश से पूरा शहर तालाब में तब्दील हो गया है। मुख्य मार्ग…