Author: Amit Bhanot

(HT) यूपी निकाय चुनाव के लिए मतदान की प्रक्रिया खत्म हो गई। 29 नवंबर को निकाय चुनाव के आखिरी चरण का मतदान था। तीन चरणों में मतदान हुए हैं। बुधवार शाम मतदान खत्म होने के बाद एग्जिट पोल के नतीजे सामने आए हैं। एबीपी न्यूज और सी वोटर के एग्जिट पोल के अनुसार यूपी में बीजेपी की बल्ले बल्ले हो सकती है। नतीजे बता रहे हैं कि बीजेपी ने अयोध्या, मेरठ, मुरादाबाद और गोरखपुर में अच्छा प्रदर्शन किया है। बीजेपी कई शहरों में जीत हासिल कर सकती है। एग्जिट पोल के मुताबिक कांग्रेस और सपा का हाल बहुत ही बुरा बताया…

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(DNA) Calling the BJP and its party president Amit Shah a goon, Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Hardik Patel urged people to change the leadership of Gujarat. “If they can give you suggestions to rotate your crop periodically why can’t you change leaders with your votes,” Patel questioned the youth and farmers who had gathered to hear him. The young Patel leader addressed a serie sof ‘chock pe charcha’ in several villages of Morbi district. Interestingly, Hardik was addressing people not 50 km away from where Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a crowd on his second visit to the state…

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Hon’ble Prime Minister launched Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin) on 20th November, 2016 from Agra.  A target of completing one crore new houses by 31st March, 2019 was set. Of these, 51 lakh houses are to be completed by 31st March, 2018. To meet the challenge of assisting 51 lakh Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (Gramin) beneficiaries in construction of their homes by March, 2018, the Ministry of Rural Development, in partnership with the State Governments, has taken many steps, including setting month-wise target for completion of houses. The target for completion of 10 lakh houses by November, 2017 has been achieved on 29th November,…

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Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has successfully commissioned the second unit of the 2×30 MW Tuirial Hydro Electric Project (HEP) in the state of Mizoram. Significantly, the unit has been commissioned by BHEL in less than a hundred days of the commissioning of the first unit. Located in Kolasib district of Mizoram, the greenfield project of North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) has been set up on the river Tuirial. Power generation from Tuirial HEP will contribute significantly to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and contribute towards achieving a low carbon development path for the nation. The order for Electrical &…

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(PTI) With two weeks to go for Gujarat elections, about 8.77 lakh litres of liquor, Rs1.60 crore in cash and gold and jewellery worth over Rs8 crore have been seized by the election commission-appointed surveillance and expenditure monitoring teams in the state. The EC teams had so far confiscated liquor valued at Rs19.55 crore from Gujarat, where prohibition is in force. The teams had also seized suspected illicit cash totalling Rs1.60 crore and 27.02kg of gold and other precious metals valued at Rs8.13 crore, according to official data. Apart from this, £3,650 (about Rs3.11 lakh) and 30,000 Thai Baht (about…

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(LiveMint) The Income Tax (I-T) department has slapped notices on 1.16 lakh individuals and firms who made cash deposits of more than Rs25 lakh in bank accounts post note ban but failed to file returns by the due date, CBDT chairman Sushil Chandra said. Besides, large cash deposit by people who have filed I-T returns are also under close scrutiny, he said. The tax department has combed as many as 18 lakh people who had deposited junked Rs500 and Rs1,000 currency notes of over Rs2.5 lakh each post demonetisation. Out of them, individuals and companies who have still not filed their…

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(FE) Impatient for faster economic growth, India’s government is lobbying for a reduction in official interest rates in coming months as it expects inflation to stay close to a 4 percent target, finance ministry officials said. At its last meeting in October, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) left the repo rate at 6.0 percent, near a seven-year low, and a Reuters poll found that economists expected the rate to stay there through to the second quarter of next year. The finance ministry, according to officials, wants a rate cut sooner than that, putting a focus on the MPC meeting on…

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(LiveMint) Ivanka Trump, advisor to US President Donald Trump, arrived in Hyderabad on Tuesday to participate in the inaugural session of the three-day Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also participate in the event. Before attending the GES, Modi will also launch the Hyderabad metro rail and will inaugurate the relaunch of the Tata Nano car as Jayem Neo. According to an official from the US Consulate in Hyderabad, Trump and her team landed in Hyderabad in the early hours of Tuesday. Telangana chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao will also address the inaugural session on Tuesday on “Be the…

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As part of its strategy to diversify into new areas, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won an order for setting up six decentralised sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.   Valued at over Rs.64 Crore, the order for the STPs with a cumulative capacity of 25.4 MLD (Million Liters per Day), has been placed on BHEL by Raipur Development Authority (an Urban Development Authority under the Government of Chhattisgarh). The project for construction of the decentralized STPs shall be based on Sequential Batch Reactor (SBR) technology. BHEL’s scope of work in the contract broadly includes construction, testing and commissioning of…

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