(ET) The National Thermal Power Corporation’s Pakri Barwadih Coal Mining Project unit in Barkagaon donated eight ventilators to Hazaribag Medical College and Hospital (HMCH) . Prashant Kashyap, the executive director of NTPC’s Pakri Barwadih project, said, “The NTPC is committed to help the district administration in its fight against Covid-19. We gave ventilators under our CSR policy.” He added that under the CSR policy, they also provided three of their buildings to the district administration, so that those can be used as quarantine centres. Kashyap said, “Of late, a large number of migrants returned to their native places in Barkagaon and Keredari, and they were quarantined…
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(PTI) Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said people affected in Oil India’s Baghjan gas well tragedy will be “adequately” compensated. Pradhan reached Assam on Saturday to review the situation arising after a blowout and successive inferno that killed two persons. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who accompanied Pradhan to the disaster site and relief camps , said a model and a veterinary hospital, a higher secondary school and a skill development centre will be set up in Baghjan. “Today I announce that the Baghajan embankment will be constructed at a cost of Rs 27 crore,” he said. “We will compensate…
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(ET) India will take its first baby step towards deregulation of the natural gas market on Monday when oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan launches the country’s first gas exchange, a move that will ultimately lead to market-driven pricing and boost consumption by improving availability. IEX, the market leader in power trading, is offering the platform with Dahej and Hazira in Gujarat and Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh as delivery locations – or ‘hubs’ – for pricing the contracts. This is unlike the US, which only has the Henry Hub – a gas pipeline located in Erath, Louisiana – as the delivery points for contracts on the NYMEX. The choice of delivery…
(LiveMint) The 40th GST council meeting will be held on Friday under the chairmanship of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Members of the GST Council will discuss the issues over videoconferencing for the first time post the Covid-19 lockdown. A downward revision of late fee for not filed old returns would be considered in the meeting.At present, the fine is ₹50 per day subject to ₹10,000 if an entity does not file the GST return for six months. There is huge pressure on the traders due to the penalty for not filing of GST returns. GST Council is expected to consider revising late filing…
(ET) Petrol price on Friday was hiked by 57 paise per litre and diesel by 59 paise a litre as oil companies adjusted retail rates – the sixth straight day of increase in rates since oil firms ended an 82-day hiatus of rate revision. Petrol price in Delhi was hiked to Rs 74.57 per litre from Rs 74, while diesel rates were increased to Rs 72.81 a litre from Rs 72.22, according to a price notification of state oil marketing companies. Rates have been increased across the country and vary in each state depending on the incidence of local sales…
देश को आत्मनिर्भर बनाने का जो लक्ष्य प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेंद्र मोदी जी ने निर्धारित किया है उसे मूर्त रूप देने के लिये जरूरी है कि हम देश की आर्थिक गतिविधियों में महिलाओं की भूमिका को बढ़ावा दें। इसके लिये उत्तरप्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री श्री योगी आदित्यनाथ गंभीरता से काम कर रहे हैं और पूरे प्रदेश में देश के विभिन्न भागों से वापस आये प्रवासी मजदूरों की मै पिंग करायी जा रही है जिसमें महिलाओं के कौशल की मैपिंग पर विशेष जोर दिया जा रहा है। हमें यह भली भांति ज्ञात है कि यदि हमें देश और प्रदेश को आत्मनिर्भर बनाना है…
(FE) India has reported the highest single-day spike of 10,956 new COVID-19 cases and 396 deaths in the last 24 hours. This is the first time that daily coronavirus cases in the country crossed 10,000-mark. The total number of covid-19 cases in the country now stands at 2,97,535, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said in its latest data update on Friday. However, there was some good news as total recoveries surpassed the active number of cases. As of now, there are 1,41,842 active cases while 1,47,195 people have been cured/discharged and one has been migrated. The death toll…
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is extremely saddened and regretfully informs about the unfortunate demise of Shri Atul Srivastava, Director (Personnel), at night on June 10, 2020 at Apollo Hospital, New Delhi due to cardiac arrest. Shri Srivastava, diagnosed *Corona Negative*, was running fever of 101+ for the last few days. Earlier in the day on 10th June, when he was experiencing difficulty in breathing, he was advised admission in the Hospital. Accordingly, he was admitted in the evening on June 10th 2020. He had his dinner and went to sleep. He suffered cardiac arrest late night , and…
Khabarindia.in is going to organize women special webinar E-Samvad on Thursday June 11, 2020 at 4 p.m. In this webinar UP Minister of State (I/C) for Women, Child Development& Nutrition Smt. Swati Singh will participate and highlight the scheme concerning women welfare specially for migrant labours in UP. Topic of E-Samvad is ‘Covis-19 Pandemic: Empowered Women Are Crucial To Make India “Atamnirbhar” . Other panel includes Smt. Deepti Rawat Bhardwaj, Vice- Chairperson Higher Education, Govt. Of Uttarakhand. She will also discuss issue of women empowerment in the State of Uttaranchal. In the webniar. Dr. Jhoomer Kulshrestha , Founder of Indian…