(ET) Home minister Amit Shah will take up issues such as the linking of rivers Ken and Betwa and roads and banking facilities in Maoist affected areas during the meeting of the interstate council in Bhopal on Monday. The meet will be attended by chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttrakhand, officials said. The Ken-Betwa project was approved by the Union Cabinet last December with a total cost of Rs 44,605 crore. The project will be completed in eight years and benefit the Bundelkhand region, including Banda, Mahoba, Jhansi and Lalitpur of Uttar Pradesh and Panna, Tikamgarh,…
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(ET) An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale hit the north-northeast of Lucknow in the early hours of Saturday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) informed. The earthquake occurred at 1.12 am on Saturday. The depth of the earthquake was 82 km below the ground. “Earthquake of magnitude:5.2 occurred on 20-08-2022, 01:12:47 IST, Lat: 28.07 and Long: 81.25, Depth: 82 Km, Location: 139 km NNE of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh,” tweeted the National Center for Seismology. Earlier on Friday, mild tremors were felt in the Pithoragarh area of Uttarakhand which was hit by an earthquake of 3.6 magnitude on the…
(ET) Sri Lanka has granted provisional approval to Adani Green Energy for an investment of over $500 million in two wind projects in the country, Sri Lanka’s power and energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera announced. The provisional approvals are for two wind projects in the Mannar and Pooneryn, a village in the Northern province of Sri Lanka, he tweeted.
(PTI) Union coal secretary Anil Kumar Jain said that thermal power stations have coal stocks that will last for the next 17 days and Mahagenco has stocks for eight to 10 days. Jain addressed a press conference along with Coal India Ltd (CIL) chairman Pramod Agrawal at the Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) during their visit to Nagpur. A major decision has been taken with regards to the pension scheme of coal mine workers, Jain said. The CIL gives Rs 10 per tonne of coal production towards pension scheme to coal mine workers, and likewise, the CIL gave approximately Rs 622…
(ET) Diesel demand in India fell for the second month in a row as the onset of monsoon chipped away consumption in key sectors like agriculture, preliminary industry data showed Tuesday. Petrol and diesel demand had fallen month-on-month in July. While petrol consumption is almost flat in the first half of August, diesel – the most widely used fuel in the country – saw demand drop 11.2 per cent during August 1-15 to 2.82 million tonnes from 3.17 million tonnes in the same period of the previous month. The arrival and intensity of monsoon weigh heavily on diesel demand in…
(PTI) The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday gave its approval for setting up an eco-tourism development board to fully utilise the tourism potential of the state. The board will be headed by the state chief minister with ministers of 10 departments as its members, Tourism Minister Jaiveer Singh told newspersons here. The need for the board was being felt for long and a decision to set it up was taken at the meeting presided over by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, he said. The minister said the board will help the state attract domestic and international tourists. There are vast historical, cultural, religious…
(ET) State-run Bharat Petroleum Corp on Saturday posted a loss of ₹6,148 crore for April-June quarter, on the back of a freeze on retail prices of petrol and diesel. During the first quarter of last fiscal year, it had reported a profit of ₹3,214 crore. Revenue from operations surged 54% from a year earlier to ₹1.3 lakh crore. The company incurred a ₹966 crore foreign exchange loss due to fluctuations in the exchange rates. Its cost of materials consumed more than doubled to ₹63,615 crore from ₹26,805 crore. The loss was despite market sales rising to 11.76 mt in the June…
(Times Now) The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) will launch its two-day ‘Tiranga Yatra’ across the Uttar Pradesh from Tuesday to appeal to the people to display the national flag at their homes. BJP MPs, MLAs and party workers would be part of the Tiranga yatra that is being taken out as part of the campaign. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set a target to hoist 4.50 crore national flags in the state, BJP general secretary Amar Pal Maurya informed. “Under the Tricolour campaign, the national flag should be hoisted at all residences, government and private offices and buildings and other establishments,” the Uttar Pradesh CM has…
(ET) The RBI on Monday said it has imposed penalties on eight cooperative banks, including a fine of Rs 40 lakh on the Mehsana Urban Co-operative Bank, Gujarat, for non-compliance with various norms. Penalty has been imposed on Mehsana Urban Co-operative Bank for non-compliance with certain provisions of the Reserve Bank of India (Co-operative Banks – Interest Rate on Deposits) Directions, 2016. In another statement, it said a penalty of Rs 7 lakh has been imposed on Indapur Urban Cooperative Bank, Indapur (Maharashtra) for contravention of certain provisions related to exposure norms. Three banks — Warud Urban Co-operative Bank, Warud (Maharashtra),…
Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated the fourth ONGC Para Games in Thyagaraj Sports Complex in Delhi on 2 August 2022. 275 Persons with Disabilities (PwD) – employees of eight central oil and gas public enterprises – are participating in the 4th ONGC Para Games, being organized by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) during 2-4 August 2022. 192 of these are from ONGC. Congratulating ONGC during the inauguration of this 4th ONGC Para Games, the Petroleum Minister said, “The ONGC Para Games is a wonderful platform to…