(LiveMint) Polling is underway for the second phase of Bihar elections in 94 constituencies across 17 districts of the state. The second phase of polling that will seal the fate of 1,463 candidates has both Yadav brothers – former deputy chief minister and face of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Tejashwi Yadav and former state minister Tej Pratap Yadav – in the fray. Apart from key stakeholders of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Mahagatbandhan, this phase is also crucial for Chirag Paswan led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) which has fielded 52 candidates for Tuesday’s polling. The run-up to the second phase…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(PTI) Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries plans to start the delayed production from the second wave of discoveries in its eastern offshore KG-D6 block in November/December, the company said in an investor presentation. Reliance is working on three projects in the Krishna Godavari basin KG-D6 block, where production from older fields stopped in February this year. R-Series will the first of the three fields to go live. “All wells (have been) drilled, completed, tested and connected; sub-sea installation and testing works completed,” the firm said in an investor presentation post announcing second quarter earnings. Balance works on control and riser platform are currently…
(PTI) State-run power major NTPC today posted a 40.69 per cent jump in its standalone net profit at Rs 2,925.59 crore for the March 2018 quarter, mainly on the back of higher revenues. The company’s standalone net profit was Rs 2,079.40 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago, NTPC said in a BSE filing. Its total income on standalone basis stood at Rs 2,3617.83 crore in Q4 of 2017-18, against Rs 20,886.85 crore a year ago. For the entire 2017-18 fiscal, its consolidated net profit came in at Rs 10,501.50 crore, marginally down from Rs 10,713.94 crore in the previous fiscal. On a consolidated basis, its…
Industry veteran AK Gupta has taken over as Managing Director & CEO of ONGC Videsh, the international petroleum company of India and the overseas arm of national oil and gas major ONGC. He brings with him over three decades of experience in various capacities in domestic and overseas oil and gas exploration and production operations. Before getting elevated to MD, He has been the Director (Operations) of ONGC Videsh, where he has been relentless in framing future strategies for the company in different global geographies amidst the unprecedented challenges imposed by COVID-19 pandemic. During his stewardship, the company achieved the highest ever production of Oil…
(PTI) In a statement that may ruffle many feathers, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday asserted that the abrogation of Article 370 has given people of other states a “licence” to own property in Jammu and Kashmir. The firebrand BJP leader made comments to the effect at rallies he addressed in Jamui, Tarari and Paliganj assembly constituencies of Bihar. “Earlier, a person from this part of Bihar could not even think of owning property in Kashmir. The Congress had put such a system in place. But Narendra Modi and Amit Shah changed all that. Article 370 has been scrapped and…
(PTI) India’s COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 73.07 lakh with 67,735 new cases in a day, while 63,83,441 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 87.35 per cent on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 73,07,097 and the death toll climbed to 1,11,266 with the novel coronavirus virus claiming 680 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country, the data updated at 8 am showed. The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.52 per cent. There are 812390 active cases of coronavirus infection…
(LiveMint) The Union government on Wednesday cleared a ₹5,718 crore centrally sponsored scheme for improving education outcomes with World Bank aid in six states and announced that a similar programme will be rolled out in five other states. The scheme aims to ensure that learning is based on understanding of the subject, that language learning will be the focus up to third standard and exams will be reformed, Union minister of information and broadcasting Prakash Javadekar said at a cabinet briefing. Students achieving minimum proficiency in languages and improvements in secondary school completion rate are also among the goals of the…
(PTI) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday allowed Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) to trade half of the crude oil it has stored in Indian underground strategic reserves. Till now, ADNOC, which has hired half of 1.5 million tonnes underground storage at Mangaluru, was allowed to commercially use 35 per cent of the oil stored. It could trade or sell another 15 per cent with the explicit approval of the government. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, allowed ADNOC to commercially use 50 per cent of the oil it has stored in the reserves, an official said. The…
(PTI) Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on October 13 said there was no scaling down of the capacity of the planned mega 60 MTPA refinery on the west coast as it was essential to meet future fuel and petrochemical demand in the country. Pradhan also said the privatization of Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) was very much on track but the government was treading cautiously given the size of the divesture. Speaking at the Energy Intelligence Forum 2020, he said fuel demand is expected to reach pre-COVID-19 levels in the first quarter of the 2021 calendar year. “India currently has an oil refining capacity…
(AU) पीपुल्स डेमोक्रेटिक पार्टी (पीडीपी) की अध्यक्ष एवं पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री महबूबा मुफ्ती को 14 माह बाद मंगलवार को प्रदेश सरकार ने रिहा कर दिया। महबूबा की रिहाई के लिए सर्वोच्च न्यायालय में दायर याचिका पर 15 अक्टूबर को सुनवाई होनी थी। महबूबा की रिहाई को प्रदेश में राजनीतिक गतिविधियों की बहाली की दिशा में केंद्र सरकार के एक बड़े कदम के रूप में देखा जा रहा है। प्रदेश में जल्द ही पंचायत उपचुनाव होने वाले हैं। महबूबा को जम्मू-कश्मीर पुनर्गठन अधिनियम को लागू किए जाने के मद्देनजर प्रदेश प्रशासन ने एहतियातन पांच अगस्त 2019 की सुबह हिरासत में लिया था।…