(NDTV) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today directed revenue officials to finalise demarcation of land within three months in pending dispute cases and warned land sharks to return grabbed property voluntarily or be prepared to face stern action. Yogi Adityanath said this during his two day visit to the temple town, where he made a surprise visit to the Cant police station and also visited Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay district hospital at Pandeypur. He also held a review meeting with district officials here yesterday and asked them to work efficiently warning that laxity would not be tolerated. Asserting that he was…
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(AU) राष्ट्र हित को ध्यान में रखते हुए नीति आयोग ने वर्ष 2024 से लोकसभा और विधानसभा के लिए एक साथ दो चरणों में चुनाव कराने का समर्थन किया है। सरकार के थिंक टैंक ने अपनी हालिया रिपोर्ट में कहा है कि भारत में सभी चुनाव स्वतंत्र, निष्पक्ष और एक साथ होने चाहिए ताकि चुनाव प्रचार के कारण प्रशासनिक व्यवस्था में कम से कम व्यवधान पैदा हो। आयोग ने कहा है कि साल 2024 से हम लोकसभा और विधानसभा के लिए एक साथ दो चरणों में चुनाव कराने की प्रक्रिया की ओर कदम बढ़ा सकते हैं। तीन वर्ष का कार्य एजेंडा, 2017-2018 से 2019-2020 वाली इस…
(ET) Petrol price has been hiked by Rs 6 per litre since the beginning of July and is now priced at its highest rate in three years with rates being revised in small dosages daily. Diesel price has increased by Rs 3.67 a litre and now costs Rs 57.03 a litre in Delhi, the highest in four months, according to data from state-owned oil companies. A litre of petrol costs Rs 69.04 a litre in Delhi, the highest since second-half of August 2014 when it was priced at Rs 70.33. State-owned oil companies in June dumped the 15-year old practice of…
(FE) Synergies and financial burden, mainly stressed assets, will be the key commercial considerations for the amalgamation of public-sector banks (PSBs), an official source told FE. There won’t be a one-size-fits-all approach to such mergers, he asserted. While the government has said the mergers will be based on commercial terms, factors such as human resource transition, geographical reach, regional balance and cultural ethos would also be considered because they have ramifications beyond just operational levels and influence a bank’s financial decisions, said the official. “Any factor — operational or financial — that influences a bank’s commercial decision will have to…
(AU) साध्वी यौन शोषण मामले में दोषी डेरा सिरसा प्रमुख गुरमीत राम रहीम को सोमवार को सजा सुनाई जाएगी। पंचकूला स्थित सीबीआई की विशेष अदालत के जज जगदीप सिंह हेलीकॉप्टर से स्टाफ के साथ रोहतक की सुनारिया जेल पहुंचकर राम रहीम को सजा सुनाएंगे। अनुमान है कि सजा दोपहर करीब ढाई बजे सुनाई जाएगी। कानूनविदों का मानना है कि बाबा को सात साल से लेकर 10 साल तक की सजा हो सकती है। इसे देखते हुए इस इलाके की सुरक्षा व्यवस्था चाक चौबंद कर दी गई है। हालांकि सिरसा को छोड़कर अभी कहीं कर्फ्यू नहीं है। हालांकि पिछली स्थिति को…
(TH) The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) — the scheme to give free LPG connections to the poorest households — was termed a game changer for the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh because of its popularity as a pro-poor move. Now, the Modi government wants to replicate its success for all the other welfare schemes, especially the ones implemented by the Rural Development Ministry. The PMUY owes much of its success to the data provided by the Socio Economic Caste Census 2011 or SECC that helped the Petroleum Ministry, along with the State governments, accurately identify the households in need…
(LiveMint) The centre on Friday night asked the Haryana government to provide adequate security to the CBI special court judge who convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh in a rape case, officials said. The home ministry told the Haryana government that judge Jagdeep Singh should be provided the highest level of security in view of the threat perception after he delivered the verdict against the Dera head, an official said. The home ministry will analyse intelligence inputs before deciding whether the judge’s security needs to be handled by a central force, such as the CRPF or CISF,…
(ET) The effective tax rates for subsidised kerosene and cooking gas rose up to 5% but fell on average 10-12% for most other oil products such as fuel oil, naphtha and lubricants under the freshly rolled out Goods and Services Tax (GST), an analysis by the Oil Ministry showed. For subsidised cooking gas used by households, the effective tax rates went up by 4-5% in several states including Delhi, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Karnataka, J&K, Goa and and Chhattisgarh. In many other states, tax rates remained unchanged or rose just a bit. The GST rate is…
(ET) There’s help at last for anyone in Uttar Pradesh who thinks local officials are given to lethargy and procrastination. By early next year, the state government proposes to operationalise a 1,000-seater grievance cell in Lucknow —to be christened ‘Chief Minister’s Helpline’ —which will be capable of handling as many as 80,000 calls a day from harried residents from across the state on a single toll-free number, a top state government official told ET. The set-up, to be monitored by chief minister Yogi Adityanath through a special dashboard, will allow 55,000 outbound calls per day for followup action, right up…
(ET) The Supreme Court verdict declaring privacy as a fundamental right will not put an end to Aadhaar since all the current usage of the unique identity number falls under the reasonable restrictions which have been outlined in the judgement. Aadhaar can continue to be linked with subsidy schemes since reasonable restrictions laid down by the Court include prevention of “dissipation of welfare benefits,” Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) told ET. Adding that while another Supreme Court Bench which will hear the specific Aadhaar matter will take a final call on the issue,…