Author: Amit Bhanot

(DJ) गुजरात में भाजपा लगातार छठीं बार भगवा परचम लहराती दिखाई दे रही है। शुरुआती टक्कर देने के बाद अब कांग्रेस इस लड़ाई में पिछड़ गई है और बाजी उसके हाथ से निकल गई है। चुनाव आयोग के मुताबिक अभी तक भाजपा ने 87 सीटों पर जबकि कांग्रेस ने 72 सीटों पर जीत हासिल की है। इसके अलावा 5 पर अन्‍य ने जीत हासिल की है। हालांकि जीत की तरफ बढ़ रही भाजपा का प्रदर्शन इस बार पहले की अपेक्षा खराब रहा है। अब बड़ा सवाल है कि आखिर राज्‍य की सत्‍ता किसके हाथों में सौंपी जाएगी। यहां पर ध्‍यान रखना…

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The OMCs and the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas have been getting a large number of complaints from consumers through various channels including social media, print media and VIP references regarding non-credit of the LPG subsidy amounts into their earlier bank accounts for the past few weeks. In many cases across the three Oil Marketing Companies (IOCL, BPCL and HPCL) where the Adhaar linking of LPG consumers has got changed in the NPCI mapper to Airtel Bank and hence the LPG subsidy is getting sent to the new bank account in the Airtel Bank. In order to link LPG Subsidy…

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(FE) Currently, BJP is leading on 98 seats while Congress is ahead on 80. So, the Bharatiya Janata Party has taken a healthy lead of 18 seats. Sourabh Patel of BJP is behind, Rajendra Trivedi is also trailing.  As per the data by the Election Commission, BJP is leading on 77 seats now while Congress is leading on 59. It is being reported that Congress’ Shaktisinh Gohil is trailing by 1355 votes from Kutch’s Mandvi. The Bharatiya Janata Party is still in the lead. It is ahead on 93 seats while Congress is leading on 85 seats. Meanwhile, Vijay Rupani is leading by 7600 votes…

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(FE) As winter engulfs the capital, the train scheduled has been affected in most of North India bringing down the visibility to zero. 15 trains arriving late & 12 cancelled due to decreased visibility/ operational reasons. With cold waves hitting the national capital, the city continued to shudder under the effect of cold, with fog shrouding many areas of the city. In the wake of the trains being delayed, Railways has sent out more than 33 lakh text messages to passengers alerting them about their trains being delayed for over an hour. The service was started last month for 102…

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(FE) The government plans to tweak the land use policy to ensure affordable housing is accorded top priority. That will make available vast tracts of surplus land belonging to sick public sector undertakings (PSUs) for low-cost housing in urban areas. A back of the envelope calculation shows more than one lakh homes — of around 800 sq ft each — can be built on the land with just eight PSUs of around 2,500 acres. The “Housing for All by 2022 Mission” has targetted 12 million homes.  Officials indicated to FE, a Cabinet note would be floated in the next couple…

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(FE) EC Offical trends for Himachal Pradesh Elections 2017: BJPleading on 38, Congress ahead on 22, Others-.EC Offical trends for Himachal Pradesh Elections 2017: Virbhadra Singh leading by 1162 votes in Arki. Veerhadra Singh had come under attack for alleged corruption scandals which took place under his rule.Early trends have brought good news for Congress’ Veerbhadra Singh. He is leading from Arki. Veerhadra Singh came under attack for alleged corruption scandals which took place under his rule.Bharatiya Janata Party is now leading on 41 seats. Congress is leading on 21 seats. While others are leading on 3 seats. BJP has crossed majortiy mark.

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Amit Bhanot, Managing Editor, Governance Democracy & Politics Magazine, December Issue Gujarat assembly elections is now heading towards its last leg and with each passing day this one of the most “crucial” elections of recent times are heading for a nail biting finish as many factors- right from Patidars reservation to Ram Temple issue, to usage of cuss words by Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar for PM Modi, etc. have given new facets to this assembly election. Interestingly this patented “hindutatva laboratory” of BJP is seeing such a multi-dimensional fight for the first time in last so many years and…

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(PTI) Strident criticism by the opposition Samajwadi Party of power tariff hike in Uttar Pradesh derailed the Question Hour in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly for the second day today.As soon as the House met for the day, Leader of the Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary raised the issue and wanted an immediate roll back. Chaudhary was soon joined by other opposition members leading to din in the House. Speaker Hriday Narain Dixit urged the agitated members to allow him to take up the proceedings and raise their issues during the Zero Hour.However, they did not relent and started raising slogans and…

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Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, in the august presence of Hon’ble Governor of Mizoram, Lt Gen.(Retd.) Nirbhay Sharma, Chief Minister of Mizoram, Shri Lal Thanhawla, Minister of State (IC) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Prime Minister Office, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Space, Shri Jitendra Singh and Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, Shri R.K. Singh, will formally dedicate the 60 MW Tuirial Hydro Electric Power Project (HEPP) to the Nation. The Prime Minister will also launch ‘MyDoNER App’ and will distribute cheques to…

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Hon’ble President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, presided as the Chief Guest over the National Energy Conservation Day celebrations, held here today. The occasion was also graced by the presence of Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, Shri Raj Kumar Singh. Hon’ble President of India gave away National Energy Conservation Awards to industries that have demonstrated measurable reductions in their energy use as part of the National Energy Conservation Awards Programme. During the event, a short film on the Energy Efficiency achievements in the Industry Sector was also shown. Further, Shri Kovind presented…

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