(PTI) Concerted efforts by the Reserve Bank to move to a non/less-cash economy by pushing digital payments have begun to pay rich dividends as the volume of such payments has jumped manifold in the past five years, the latest data from the central bank showed. Between 2015-16 and 2019-20, digital payments have grown at a compounded annual growth rate of 55.1 per cent – from 593.61 crore in the year to March 2016 to 3,434.56 crore in the year to March 2020. In absolute terms, value has grown from Rs 920.38 lakh crore to Rs 1,623.05 lakh crore during this period,…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(AU) बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार आज से बिहार विधानसभा चुनाव प्रचार अभियान की शुरुआत करेंगे। जदयू के राष्ट्रीय महासचिव और सीएम नीतीश कुमार के विश्वासपात्र माने जाने वाले राज्य के मंत्री संजय कुमार झा ने कहा कि सीएम नीतीश कुमार आज और कल यानी (सोमवार और मंगलवार) में कुल राज्य की 35 विधानसभा क्षेत्रों को लोगों को संबोधित करेगें। आगे संजय कुमार झा ने बताया कि चुनाव प्रचार सोमवार और मंगलवार को वर्चुअल माध्यम से किया जाएगा। 14 अक्तूबर से सभाओं को संबोधित करने के लिए अलग-अलग हिस्सों के लिए उड़ाने भरना शुरु करेंगे। उन्होंने आगे कहा कि नीतीश कुमार का वर्चुअल चुनावी प्रचार अभियान सोमवार शाम…
(ET) Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has said that an investment of Rs 25,000 crore has been made in the state in the last three-and-a-half-years compared to Rs 40,000 crore investment that came to the state in the industrial sector till 2017. The Chief Minister, who communicated with social entrepreneurs of the state through video conference on Saturday, said that if they move ahead by considering local resources as the basis, it will facilitate the state to become self-reliant. According to an official release, the Chief Minister said that during the investors’ summit MoUs worth Rs 1.25 lakh crore were signed in the state, out…
(PTI) In signs of importance India places with ties with the oil-rich nation, India on Sunday dispatched its Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for Kuwait to offer condolences to the leadership of the Gulf nation on the passing away of its former Emir. Pradhan is carrying letters from President and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the new leadership of Kuwait. “Embarked on a two-day visit to Kuwait to offer condolences to the Kuwaiti leadership on behalf of the Govt. of India on the passing away of former Emir of Kuwait His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah,” Pradhan tweeted.
(PTI) The petroleum ministry has asked oil PSUs such as Indian Oil Corp (IOC) to build 50,000 houses for renting to migrant workers as part of government plan to develop affordable rental housing after millions of labourers fled cities for villages amidst coronavirus lockdown. The ministry wants IOC and other public sector undertakings (PSUs) under its administrative control such as Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL), Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL), GAIL India Ltd and Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) to build the housing units on the land they have, three officials who attended a meeting on the subject said. The meeting, they said, was chaired…
(ET) In a big reform initiative, the government on Wednesday decided to put domestically produced gas under a standard price discovery mechanism to help scale up local production from fields of ONGC, OIL, Reliance and Vedanta and help create a uniform gas market. Accordingly, the Union Cabinet approved a standard e-bidding procedure for market-based price discovery of gas across various contractual regimes. Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that under the new reform initiative, a standardised e-bidding mechanism will be suggested by upstream regulator Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) for transparent market-based discovery of gas price. The regulator will also suggest a panel of e-bidding platforms to the producers.…
(Hindustan) केंद्रीय वित्त मंत्री निर्मला सीतारमण ने कहा कि कोविड-19 महमारी की रोकथाम के लिये लगाए गए ‘लॉकडाउन के बाद देश की अर्थव्यवस्था में पुनरूद्धार साफ दिख रहा है और जो संकेत हैं, वे काफी सकारात्मक हैं। उन्होंने कहा, अर्थव्यवस्था से जुड़े जो भी संकेत हैं, उसमें सुधार दिख रहा है और यह पुनरूद्धार को बताता है। जीएसटी क्षतिपूर्ति के मामले में वित्त मंत्री ने कहा कि जीएसटी परिषद की फिर 12 अक्तूबर को बैठक होगी। हमने सभी राज्यों के साथ पिछली बैठक में सात घंटे तक चर्चा की। हम फिर बैठक कर रहे हैं। उसमें हम क्षतिपूर्ति से जुड़े मामले…
(AU) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने आगामी त्योहारों, ठंड के मौसम और अर्थव्यवस्था की स्थिति के मद्देनजर गुरुवार को कोविड-19 से निपटने के लिए लोगों के समुचित व्यवहार के बारे में ट्विटर पर एक ‘जन आंदोलन’ की शुरुआत की। उन्होंने सिलसिलेवार ट्वीट कर लोगों से आग्रह किया कि जब तक कोरोना वायरस की रोकथाम के लिए कोई टीका नहीं बन जाता तब तक उन्हें हर सावधानी बरतनी है और तनिक भी ढिलाई नहीं करनी है। उन्होंने कहा, ‘कोरोना वायरस से बचें। हाथ धोएं बार-बार। सही से मास्क पहनें। निभाएं दो गज की दूरी। जब तक दवाई नहीं, तब तक ढिलाई नहीं।’ मोदी…
(PTI) India saw a single-day rise of 78,524 COVID-19 cases taking the virus caseload to over 68 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated surged to 58,27,704, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.The national recovery stands at 85.25 per cent. The total corona virus cases mounted to 68,35,655,while the death toll climbed to 1,05,526 with 971 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed. The total recoveries have surged to 58,27,704 while there are 9,02,425 active cases of corona virus infection in the country which…
(ET) Union minister of petroleum and natural gas Dharmendra Pradhan ordered a probe into the explosion and fire at a fuel station near Raj Bhawan here on Wednesday. It coincided with the commissionerate police registering a criminal case to probe the tragedy. Nine persons were injured, two of them critical, in the blast. Portions of Raj Bhawan and several houses in the vicinity were damaged under the impact of the massive explosion. “I have asked the secretary of petroleum and natural gas to probe the case. The secretary would submit the inquiry report after discussing with senior officers of the state government and Indian Oil,” Pradhan tweeted.