(PTI) The BJP-led NDA government is handling the Kashmir issue “diplomatically” and India will ultimately “prevail” there, BJP president Amit Shah today said adding that merely abrogating Article 370 will not solve the problem in the valley. Shah said the prime minister is keeping a “keen eye” on Kashmir and the security agencies are doing a “fine job” there. “I believe that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and security agencies’ intervention, India will ultimately prevail in Kashmir,” he said appearing in the “Samvaad” conclave organised by India TV. Shah also declined to ascribe the recent violence in…
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(FE) The CBI early Tuesday morning conducted raids at at least fourteen locations across Chennai including the residence of former Union minister P Chidambaram. The raids are in connection with cleareances given to INX Media. An FIR in the case was reportedly filed on Monday. News agency ANI reported that the raid was conducted by the CBI. The Indian Express could not immediately confirm the same.
(Tribune) Uttarakhand Sugarcane Development Minister Prakash Pant has sought a package to the tune of Rs 895 crore for the modernisation of sugar mills in the state. Pant put forward the state’s demand before Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh when he met him later in Dehradun today. Prakash Pant said the package amount besides modernisation of sugar mills would also assist in power generation through cane residue in the mills. He said the package could be given in the form of loan with minimum rate of interest through National Cooperatives Development Corporation.Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on his part…
(PTI) Appealing to the youth of Kashmir to question those who instigate them to join the “so-called freedom struggle”, Union minister Jitendra Singh today hit out at the separatists, saying if stone-pelting is a “holy task” then they should make their own children pelt stones and risk their lives. Singh rejected separatists as being stakeholders in Kashmir and said that real stakeholders are the state’s youth below the age of 40 who constitute 65 per cent of its population. “I have made this appeal to youth of Kashmir that time has come for you (youth of valley) to raise this question-mark…
(NDTV) Your visit to a fuel station to fill up petrol or diesel after the 15th of this month may leave you surprised: your bill might be less than you think. Global fuel prices have fallen over the past fortnight while the rupee has remained stable. Oil marketing companies like Indian Oil (IOC) and Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) have already passed on the rate cut in five cities where petrol and diesel prices are now revised on a daily basis. For example, in Chandigarh, petrol and diesel prices are down more than Rs. 1.5 per litre so far this month. Petrol…
(FE) Uttar Pradesh’s ruling BJP has expelled 87 party leaders and workers for six years for “anti-party activities”, a leader said on Thursday. State General Secretary Vidya Sagar Sonkar said the action was taken following a probe by the disciplinary committee of the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The expelled leaders and workers had either contested against the BJP candidates in assembly elections or backed the opposition, he added. The expulsion was cleared by state President Keshav Prasad Maurya. Prominent among those sacked are Kapil Dev Kori (Rampur), V.K. Saini (Moradabad), Inderdev Singh (Bijnore), Shanti Swaroop Sharma (Bulandshahr), Chandra Shekhar…
(ET) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today lauded India’s performance on renewable energy front announcing the country’s solar energy generation capacity rose at a record pace of 81 per cent last financial year. Modi assured the country’s solar equipment manufacturing will be boosted in the coming years and called for greater emphasis on ethanol blending programme. “You would be happy to know that capacity addition in solar energy in FY17 stands at the highest-ever, at 81 percent. Called for greater emphasis on ethanol blending and expediting the setting up of 2nd generation bio ethanol refineries,” Modi said in a series of…
(Tribune) The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI), Uttarakhand chapter, organised a seminar-cum-workshop on “GST: The game changing biggest indirect tax reform”, to provide information about the new indirect tax regime at Kashipur on Sunday. Uttarakhand Finance Minister Prakash Pant participated as a chief guest and was accompanied by Pradeep Kr. Goel (IRS), Commissioner, Central Excise and Customs, Dehradun, and T Manjunath (IAS), Additional Commissioner, Central Excise. A team from the Commercial Tax Department, led by BS Nagnyal, Additional Commissioner, Commercial Tax, Uttarakhand, was also present.Introducing the agenda of the seminar, Anil Taneja, regional director, PHD Chamber, said the…
(PTI) Haryana government today said about Rs 82.50 crore will be spent for setting up ethanol plant in cooperative sugar mill at Shahabad. The plant, which would be made functional next year, would generate income of about Rs 12-15 crore every year and in about six years, the mill would complete the cost of the project with its resources, Haryana Minister of State for Cooperation Manish Kumar Grover said. said that a 24 MW power plant had already been set up in the Shahabad cooperative sugar mill. The plant will benefit the farmers of the area and will utilise waste material…
(HT) Lucknow University’s Earth Science Research Centre , which opened this month, will contribute to PM Modi’s Ganges river clean-up programme, Namami Gange, and be a part of UP’s Vikas Sankalp Patra 2017, which will cover river science. Established under the Institute of Geo-resources, ONGC Centre of Advanced Studies, LU had announced three new programmes, including the Earth Science Research Centre, to enable its students and faculty to get involved in the clean-up of the river Ganges, Prof Dhruv Sen Singh, director of the institute, said. “The courses are designed to cater to several branches of geoscience, giving opportunities to…