(PTI) Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan today said skill development and promoting entrepreneurship is a key priority area for the government and it is linking this initiative with other programmes like upgrade of rail network and providing all households with power and cooking gas supply. “We will be connecting 40 million households with electricity within 300 days by the end of 2018 and that will require skilling of manpower. “One new strategy of the Modi government is how to scale up and lower costs also by skilling the manpower,” Pradhan said. The oil minister, who also holds charge of the skill development…
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(AU) प्रदेश के कई हिस्सों में मंगलवार को बारिश और बर्फबारी से कड़ाके की ठंड बढ़ गई है। श्री माता वैष्णो देवी के दरबार में नए साल में पहली बर्फबारी का यात्रियों ने मजा लिया। खराब मौसम से कटड़ा-सांझीछत चॉपर सेवा दिनभर प्रभावित रही। पर्यटक स्थल नत्थाटाप और पतनीटाप में बर्फबारी से मैदानी इलाकों में तापमान में गिरावट आई है। कश्मीर के ऊपरी इलाकों में हल्की बर्फबारी हुई है। राज्य के कई मैदानी इलाकों में बारिश से सर्दी ने जोर पकड़ा है। मौसम विभाग के अनुसार बुधवार को भी राज्य के कई हिस्सों में बारिश और बर्फबारी हो सकती है। धर्मनगरी…
(PTI) Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant today said some states have improved in terms of ease of doing business after they were ranked very low on an index, as he credited the change to “name and shame”. Speaking at a session here at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Kant said he is a great believer in “name and shame” and that seemed to do the trick for poorly ranked states. Talking about the government’s focus on improving ease of doing business across the country, Kant said, “When we started ranking states on ease of doing business, we saw that the states…
Union Minister of State of Railways Shri Rajen Gohain laid the foundation stone for Rs.3618 crore Doubling with Electrification projects covering 349 kms in Kanniyakumari-Nagercoil-Thiruvananthapuram section at a function held in Nagercoil Junction Railway station on 23rd of January, 2018. Besides laying the foundation stone for three infrastructural projects, Shri Rajen Gohain inaugurated/dedicated Escalator facility, Wi-Fi services and 100% LED lighting facilities at Nagercoil Junction Railway station.Union Minister of State for Finance and Shipping Shri Pon Radhakrishnan, Minister for Information & Publicity, Government of Tamilnadu Shri Kadambur Raju, Member of Parliament Shri. A. Vijayakumar participated and graced the occasion. Union…
(AU) मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ ने कहा कि सरकार प्रदेश में ढांचागत सुविधाओं के विकास पर काफी ध्यान दे रही है। मार्च में पीएम नरेंद्र मोदी 23 हजार करोड़ रुपये की लागत से बनने वाले पूर्वांचल एक्सप्रेस-वे का शिलान्यास करेंगे। 340 किलोमीटर लंबा एक्सप्रेस-वे 24 महीने के अंदर तैयार कर लिया जाएगा। सरकार दूर-दराज के गांवों तक विकास पहुंचाने का काम कर रही है। योगी बुधवार को प्रथम यूपी दिवस के अवसर पर बोल रहे थे। उन्होंने कहा कि राज्यपाल राम नाईक के सुझाव पर भव्यता से यूपी दिवस मनाने का फैसला किया गया है। इसमें जहां यूपी की कला व…
Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Gadkari, will lay the foundation stone for an Intermodal Terminal at Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh tomorrow. The Rs 155 Cr terminal is being constructed by the Inland Waterways Authority of India as part of the World Bank aided Jal Marg Vikas Project on river Ganga or the NW-I, that aims to augment the navigational capacity of the river. Shri Manoj Sinha, Minister of State for Communication (Independent Charge) and Railways and Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh will also be present on the…
(IE) A special CBI court in Ranchi will today pronounce its verdict in the third case of multi-crore fodder scam against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad related to fraudulent withdrawal of money from Chaibasa treasury in 1990s. The fodder scam case, RC 68(A) / 1996, pertains to the fraudulence of Rs 33.67 crore from Chaibasa (now in Jharkhand) district treasury during 1992-93. The verdict will decide the fate of 56 accused, including Lalu Yadav and former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra. As of now, the former Bihar chief minister is serving time in Birsa Munda jail after having been convicted in two fodder scam…
For his significant achievements in the power sector in the country, Mr. Atul Sobti, CMD, BHEL, has been honoured with the ‘CBIP Special Recognition 2018 for Excellent Contribution in Power Sector Development’ by the Central Board of Irrigation and Power. A memento and citation to this effect was presented to Sh. Sobti by Dr. Satya Pal Singh, Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and HRD on CBIP Day 2018.
(PTI) Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday said the Western world must realise they cannot go a long way without the help of the emerging economies and warned that no one would be able to resolve any problem of a ‘fractured world’ if things are not set right soon. Without naming any country, he said the West must realise that their population is ageing and the demand for their products would mostly come from the emerging world. Speaking in Davos at a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting, Rajan said there is a risk that by the…
(Hindustan) रेल यात्रियों को सुरक्षित यात्रा अनुभव प्रदान करने के लिए भारतीय रेल देश भर के अपने सभी ट्रेनों में और स्टेशनों पर अत्याधुनिक सीसीटीवी कैमरा लगाएगी। रेलवे ने वित्त वर्ष 2018-19 में सभी 11,000 ट्रेनों में सीसीटीवी प्रणाली स्थापित करने के लिए करीब 3,000 रुपये का प्रावधान किया है। साथ ही इससे भारतीय रेल नेटवर्क के सभी 8,500 स्टेशनों पर सुरक्षा का प्रावधान किया जाएगा। वर्तमान में, रेलवे के 395 स्टेशनों और करीब 50 ट्रेनों में सीसीटीवी प्रणाली लगी है। वित्त मंत्री अरुण जेटली अपने 2018-19 के बजट में रेल परिचालन में सुरक्षा तंत्र को मजबूत करने के लिए किए…