(LiveMint) Coal India Ltd (CIL) on Monday announced that its subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd is looking to build a power plant in Sundargarh district of Odisha in partnership with power utility NTPC Ltd. The CIL subsidiary will own 51% stake in the joint venture, chairman and managing director of the coal miner Anil Kumar Jha said. Land for the 1,600 megawatt (2×800 mw) power plant has already been secured. Power from the unit will be sold under long-term power purchase agreements with NTPC. Jha, who was recently appointed chairman and managing director, said another power plant by Central Coalfields Ltd…
Author: Amit Bhanot
(AU) केंद्र ने पाकिस्तान की ओर से इस साल संघर्षविराम उल्लंघन की 1,252 घटनाओं के मद्देनजर जम्मू-कश्मीर के सीमावर्ती गांवों के लोगों की सुरक्षा के लिए व्यापक योजना को मंजूरी दी है। गृहमंत्रालय ने कठुआ, सांबा, जम्मू, राजौरी और पुंछ से लगी अंतरराष्ट्रीय सीमा और नियंत्रण रेखा (एलओसी) पर 14,000 नए बंकर बनाने के लिए 415 करोड़ रुपये मंजूर किए हैं। गृहमंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने सोमवार को नॉर्थ ब्लाक में एक उच्च स्तरीय बैठक में जम्मू-कश्मीर की प्रगति योजनाओं की समीक्षा की। गृहमंत्री ने रमजान के दौरान आतंकवाद विरोधी कार्रवाई के निलंबन के फैसले के बाद पत्थरबाजी में आई कमी पर…
(LiveMint) Organization of the petroleum exporting countries (Opec)and allied oil producers including Russia concluded that the crude market re-balanced in April, when their output cuts achieved a key goal of eliminating the global surplus. The excess in oil inventories, which has weighed on prices for three years, plunged in April to less than the five-year average for stockpiles in developed nations, according to people with knowledge of the data assessed at the meeting of the Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of Opec and other producers last week in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The re-balance is sure to be the focus of a…
(LiveMint) Aadhaar has emerged as an enabler for financial inclusion with 76% to 95% of new accounts opened in different states relying on biometric identification but steps are needed to improve continued usage of these bank accounts, says a survey that analysed three-year data from rural Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, and West Bengal. The survey, State of Aadhaar Report 2017-18 done by international research firm IDinsight covering 13,669 household members in 21 districts of the three states between November 2017 and February 2018, noted that only 45-67% of account holders in these states continue to use them. Zero-balance accounts opened under the financial…
(PTI) The ED today filed its first charge sheet in the over USD 2 billion PNB fraud case involving diamantaire Nirav Modi and his associates, officials said. They said the about 12,000 page charge sheet or the prosecution complaint has been filed before a special court here under various sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). They added that the criminal complaint has only been filed against Nirav Modi, his associates and businesses and the entire gamut of issuance of fake Letters of Undertaking (LoU) by the Punjab National Bank (PNB) to his firms in alleged connivance of bank officials.…
(AU) बृहस्पतिवार को लगातार 11वें दिन पेट्रोल-डीजल की कीमत में बढ़ोतरी जारी रही। दिल्ली में पेट्रोल जहां 23 पैसे प्रति लीटर महंगा हुआ तो डीजल 19 पैसे। कर्नाटक विधानसभा चुनाव के दौरान लगातार 19 दिनों तक दोनों ईंधनों के दाम में तब्दीली नहीं होने के बाद बीते 14 मई से कीमतों में बढ़ोतरी का सिलसिला चालू है। तब से पेट्रोल 2.77 रुपये जबकि डीजल 2.60 रुपये प्रति लीटर महंगे हो चुके हैं। देश की सबसे बड़ी तेल विपणन कंपनी इंडियल ऑयल की वेबसाइट के अनुसार 24 मई 2018 को दिल्ली में पेट्रोल के दाम 77.47 रुपये है। यह एक दिन…
(PTI) Facing a prospect of being split into two, GAIL India today said it supports reforms like unbundling of gas marketing and transportation business but such a move globally has been done only after gas market has matured. In a point by point rebuttal to critics, its Chairman and Managing Director B C Tripathi said GAIL is the only company in the country that has built multiple gas pipelines in last one decade while the private sector even after getting authorisation has not laid an inch.Also, it has thrown open all of the 11,400-km of pipeline length to third parties for…
The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has directed all concerned officials to maintain constant vigil and security on the borders. At a review meeting here today, he took stock of the progress of construction of border fencing, roads and outposts along India’s borders with neighbouring countries. Union Home Secretary Shri Rajiv Gauba, Special Secretary (Border Management) Shri BR Sharma, Joint Secretaries of Border Management, other senior officers of MHA and senior officers from Central Armed Police Forces were present. With regard to the Indo-Pakistan border, Home Minister expressed satisfaction that 97% of the sanctioned border fencing work has been…
Ministry of Railways and Braithwaite & Company Limited (BCL), a CPSE under the administrative control of the Ministry of Railways, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). BCL’s core competency is in the field of manufacturing new wagons, repairing of wagons, steel structural fabrication and manufacturing of cranes. The MoU was signed today i.e. May 23, 2018 by Railway Board Secretary, Shri Ranjanesh Sahai, and BCL, Chairman and Managing Director (Additional Charge) and Director (Finance), Shri P.P. Bose. The MoU laid down the targets for 18-19, both financial and physical. As per targets under MoU, BCL has projected Revenue from Operations of…
(AU) आसमान छू रही पेट्रोल-डीजल की कीमतों के बीच खबर है कि सरकार वक्त आने पर इसका फैसला लेगी। सरकार की तरफ से कैबिनेट बैठक समाप्त होने के बाद कानून मंत्री रविशंकर प्रसाद ने साफ किया है कि अभी इनकी कीमत घटाने में वक्त लगेगा। कैबिनेट की बैठक में पेट्रोल-डीजल पर एक्साइज ड्यूटी घटाने को लेकर के किसी तरह की कोई बात नहीं हुई। मंगलवार को दिल्ली में पेट्रोल की कीमत 30 पैसे बढ़ने के साथ 76.87 रुपये प्रति लीटर और डीजल 26 पैसे बढ़कर 68.08 रुपये प्रति लीटर हो गया। यह पेट्रोल-डीजल की सबसे बढ़ी हुई कीमत है। नौ दिनों…