(FE) Oil and Natural Gas Corp Ltd (ONGC) and Reliance Industries Ltd have started discussions with buyers to sell natural gas from their fields in the Bay of Bengal that are expected to start production over the next three years. The plan is to transport the gas from the east coast to the industrial heart belt of Gujarat, an ONGC executive told Reuters. “We want to use the pipeline to reach customers in West India to sell gas from the KG basin. We are talking to some of them for contracts,” Shashi Shankar, chairman and managing director of ONGC, said on the…
Author: Amit Bhanot
Modi at the concluding ceremony of Centenary of Champaran Satyagraha in Bihar
The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has hailed the Prime Minister MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) as a revolutionary scheme and was aimed at empowering the neglected and underprivileged sections of the society. Interacting with the beneficiaries of the PMMY on the completion of three years of the launching of the scheme here today, the Vice President said that a record number of 12 crore beneficiaries have received loans under the scheme. The Vice President said that the main objective of the MUDRA Yojana was to make people stand on their own legs. A majority of those who received…
(Hindustan) भारत बंद में जहां सबसे ज्यादा हिंसा और उपद्रव की खबरें बिहार से आ रही हैं। वहीं दूसरी ओर इसी गहमा-गहमी के बीच मंगलवार को बिहार के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री लालू प्रसाद यादव के पटना स्थित घर पर सीबीआई ने छापा मारा है। आईआरसीटीसी टेंडर घोटाला मामले में लालू के पटना स्थित घर पर यह छापेमारी की गई है। छापेमारी के दौरान राबड़ी घर में मौजूद थी। इस दौरान सीबीआई ने घर की तलाशी ली ओर राबड़ी देवी से पूछताछ भी की। लालू के बेटे तेजस्वी से भी सीबीआई ने सवाल पूछे। यह पूछताछ लगभग चार घंटे तक चली। 2006 के रेलवे होटल टेंडर मामले…
The first meeting of the newly constituted ‘NITI Forum for North East’ was held in Agartala, Tripura today. The meeting, organized by the NITI Aayog, Ministry of DoNER and the North Eastern Council (NEC), was co-chaired by the Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog, Shri Rajeev Kumar and the Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr. Jitendra Singh. Chief Minister of Tripura, Shri Biplab Kumar Deb, Chief Minister of Nagaland, Shri Neiphiu Rio and the Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Shri Conrad Sangma, besides Deputy Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Shri Chowna Mein also participated in the…
(Hindustan) साल 2016-17 में देश की सात राष्ट्रीय पार्टियों ने कुल 1,559.17 करोड़ रुपये की आय घोषित की। इनमें भारतीय जनता पार्टी की आय सबसे अधिक 1,034.27 करोड़ रुपये रही। एक रिपोर्ट में यह जानकारी दी गई है। दिल्ली स्थित संगठन एसोसिएशन फॉर डेमोक्रेटिक रिफार्म्स (एडीआर) ने आज जारी एक रिपोर्ट में कहा है, ‘यह राशि वर्ष 2016-17 में राष्ट्रीय दलों द्वारा जुटाई गई कुल राशि का 66.34 प्रतिशत है। इस आय के लिहाज से भारतीय राष्ट्रीय कांग्रेस का दूसरा स्थान रहा। कांग्रेस को साल 2016-17 के दौरान राष्ट्रीय दलों को प्राप्त कुल राशि में से 225.36 करोड़ रुपये यानी 14.45…
(FE) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will sit on a day-long fast on April 12 over disruptions during the budget session of the Parliament. PM Modi will be joined by all BJP MPs, say reports. BJP chief Amit Shah will hold ‘dharna’ on the same day in Hubli, Karnataka. On Monday, Congress party observed fast over a number of issues. However, it was hit by a controversy after a picture of Congress leaders eating at a restaurant before joining the fast went viral on social media. Congress also invited criticism when 1984 anti-Sikh riots accused Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar reached the fast venue. While observing the fast, PTI reports…
BHEL has been conferred the India Pride Award 2017-18 for Excellence in Heavy Industries in the Maharatna category. The award was received by Sh. Atul Sobti, CMD, BHEL, from Sh. Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, and Sh. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. Significantly, BHEL has won this award for the eighth time since the award was instituted.
Marking the growing prominence of India in the global energy map, the 16th International Energy Forum Ministerial (IEF16) is being hosted by India and will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on Wednesday. IEF16 is the largest gathering of Energy Ministers from across the globe, industry leaders and heads of key international organizations who will debate the future of global energy. Prominent among those attending the Ministerial Meeting this year are Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, India, Mr. Khalid Al-Falih, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia,…
(PTI) The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has brought in secure digitally-signed QR code on eAadhaar that will now contain photograph of the Aadhaar holder too, in addition to demographic details, to facilitate better offline verification of an individual. “The UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has recently replaced existing QR code on eAadhaar having resident’s demographic details now with a secured digitally-signed QR Code which contains demographics along with photograph of the Aadhaar holder,” a UIDAI official said. A QR code is a form of barcode label which contains machine-readable information, while eAadhaar is the electronic version of…