(AU) जम्मू-कश्मीर के अनंतनाग जिले में आतंकियों और सुरक्षा बलों के बीच मुठभेड़ में एक आतंकी ढेर हो गया है। सोमवार सुबह शुरू हुए इस ऑपरेशन को सीआरपीएफ की क्विक एक्शन टीम के साथ ही पुलिस और सेना की 3 राष्ट्रीय राइफल्स की संयुक्त टीम अंजाम दे रही है। गौरतलब है कि उत्तरी कश्मीर के बारामुला जिले के सोपोर में कल सुरक्षा बलों ने तीन आतंकियों को मुठभेड़ में मार गिराया था। मारे गए आतंकियों से तीन एके 47 राइफल तथा विस्फोटक सामग्री बरामद की गई। सोपोर के रेबान गांव में आतंकियों की मौजूदगी की सूचना पर रविवार तड़के चार बजे सुरक्षा…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(ET) The government is looking at a comprehensive revamp of state-run transport behemoth Indian Railways and has ordered a fresh mandate for a high powered panel of secretaries to fast-track innovative financing for its projects, monetizing assets of the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation, corporation of productions units and monetization of existing assets. Last year, the railway ministry had set up an empowered group of secretaries (EGoS) for development of 50 railway stations to global standards and permit private passenger train operators to run 150 trains with world class technology over the country’s railway network. The group was headed by Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh…
(PTI) Diesel price in the national capital on Sunday inched towards the Rs 81 per litre-mark following a rate hike after a four-day hiatus. Diesel price on Sunday was increased by 16 paise per litre, according to a price notification of state-owned oil marketing companies. This took the retail selling price to Rs 80.94 per litre in the national capital — the highest ever. There was no change in petrol price for almost two weeks, and it continues to be priced at Rs 80.43 per litre. Rates vary from state to state depending on the incidence of local sales tax or VAT. While diesel price was last revised on July…
(PTI) The trade unions at the Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd, a subsidiary of Coal India, have called for a strike on July 24 to protest against the miner’s decision to cut wages for workers who had participated in a three-day nationwide cease work early this month, officials said on Sunday. The four trade unions – AITUC, HMS, BMS and INTUC – have jointly served the notice of a day’s strike to the management of the Odisha-based subsidiary of the Maharatna PSU, they said. MCL had issued wage-cut order for workers who took part in the three-day strike from July 2 to protest against…
(LiveMint) India has reached a total of 7,93,802 confirmed Covid-19 cases since the outbreak in March. This is the highest spike of new cases to date. The total number of new cases added in the past 24 hours has reached 26,506. The number of new deaths reported in the same period is 475. The total number of deaths reported in the country has now reached 21,604. The tally of active cases in the country stands at 2,76,685. Out of the total cases that have been reported, 4,95,513 have been cured or discharged. The percentage of people who have recovered from the disease has increased to…
(ET) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the 750 MW Solar Project set up at Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, on July 10. The project exemplifies India’s commitment to attain the target of 175 GW of installed renewable energy capacity by 2022. The Project comprises of three solar generating units of 250 MW each located on a 500-hectare plot of land situated inside a solar park (total area 1500 hectare). The Solar Park was developed by the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited (RUMSL), a joint venture company of Madhya Pradesh UrjaVikas Nigam Limited (MPUVN), and Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a Central Public Sector Undertaking. Central Financial Assistance of…
(PTI) A government search-cum-selection committee on Thursday chose Alok Kumar Gupta to head ONGC Videsh Ltd, India’s flagship firm for acquisition of oil and gas assets abroad. The panel selected Gupta, who is currently Director Operations at OVL, after interviewing more than a dozen candidates, sources with direct knowledge of the development said. The post of Managing Director of OVL had been lying vacant since Narendra K Verma retired on January 31, 2019. In the absence of any full-time head, OVL did not make a single acquisition in the last one-and-a-half-years, records on the company website showed. The search-cum-selection committee comprised Oil Secretary Tarun Kapoor,…
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has successfully commissioned a 1.7 MW Solar PV Plant at Bina in Madhya Pradesh for the Indian Railways. The plant will directly feed power to traction systems of Indian Railways. The project is a landmark achievement in the history of solar power, as this is the first time that solar power is being directly used for traction applications. Notably, with this, BHEL has achieved direct injection of single-phase 25 kV power to traction substation of Indian Railways. The project has been jointly conceptualised and developed by BHEL and Indian Railways. BHEL’s scope in the project envisaged design,…
(LiveMint) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urged state-owned enterprises to step up their performance and meet their capital spending targets to give a big push to economic growth. Sitharaman reviewed performance of the companies at a video conference with secretaries of ministries handling oil, power, coal, mines and atomic energy and heads of 23 state-owned companies. An official statement said the meeting was part of a series interactions Sitharaman was holding with various stakeholders to rev up the economy amid pandemic. Sitharaman asked secretaries of the departments to closely monitor the performance of central government-owned firms to ensure that half of…
(LiveMint) In a massive drive launched against gangsters in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Adityanath government has slapped stringent charges against 88 criminals under the National Security Act (NSA) in the past one week. Uttar Pradesh’s additional chief secretary-cum- principal secretary (home) Awanish Awasthi on Tuesday said the NSA has been invoked against 88 people in 67 cases in the past one week. On Wednesday, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) gunned down a close aide — Amar Dubey — of history-sheeter Vikas Dubey. STF IG Amitabh Yash on Wednesday said Amar Dubey, a close aide to Vikas Dubey was killed in an encounter…