(PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed Pakistan and said it lost three wars but continues to wage proxy wars against India. Modi also said his government brought in the Citizenship (Amendment) Act to correct “historical” injustices and recalled the Nehru-Liaquat pact to assert that the law fullfils India’s “old promise” to religious minorities from neighboring countries. “The Indian armed forces won’t take more than a week-10 days to make Pakistan bite dust,” Modi told the gathering. Attacking Opposition parties over their stand on the CAA, the prime minister said India had assured minorities in Pakistan and Afghanistan when it got Independence…
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(ET) Now, you can pay your electricity bills while buying ration at fair price shops in your neighbourhood. This is part of the energy department’s innovative strategy to swiftly mop up revenue, particularly in rural areas, by making ration shops double up as bill payment kiosks. Once executed, the proposal will allow approximately 80,000 FPS (68,000 in rural areas and 12,000 in urban areas) to act as one-stop bill payment centres. Principal secretary, energy, and chairman of UP Power Corporation Limited, Arvind Kumar said since ration shops are frequented by both urban and rural folk, this will allow seamless bill payment through…
(ET) State-owned power giant NTPC Limited was announced as the project management consultant for the development of nearly 300 MW of solar power projects in Togo.The letter of engagement, signed on Tuesday, signifies the first time another country has sought help of the NTPC, under the International Solar Alliance (ISA). The West African nation has identified two separate plots of land- one each of 70 and 500 acres in the regions of Dalwak and Savanes respectively, that will combine to generate 283 MW. NTPC will carry out various activities for selection of the Solar Project Developers (SPDs) on competitive basis for…
(PTI) Coal India on Tuesday said it has registered a double-digit production growth of 10.7 per cent in January. The company as a whole has been averaging close to 2 MT per day coal output during the month, it said in a BSE filing. “Coal India Ltd (CIL) clocked double-digit growth of 10.7 per cent in coal production for the month of January 2020, till 27th (January),” it said. “CIL’s production at 54.17 MT till January 27, was ahead by 5.23 MT in absolute terms on a like-to-like comparison of last year, registering a growth of 10.7 per cent, the first double-digit growth so far…
(Tribune) Heavy snowfall in Shimla and Kufri cut off the upper areas beyond Dhalli today. As many as 120 roads, including four national highways, are blocked. A maximum of 72 roads are closed in Shimla zone, 37 in Kangra and seven in Mandi, two national highways each are closed in Shimla and Shahpur. As many as 132 JCBs, dozers and tippers have been pressed into service. “Around 63 roads are expected to be opened by tonight,” sources in the PWD said. Loss to public property has gone up to Rs 147.65 crore. As many as 159 routes of the HRTC have…
(PTI) Industrialist Ratan Tata on Tuesday warned that start-ups which burn investors’ money and disappear will not get a second or a third chance.Tata, who also invests in start-ups, also said old-age businesses will recede and the young founders of innovative companies are the future leaders of the Indian industry. The comments from Tata come at a time when many start-ups have been blamed for what is termed as “cash burn”, wherein the optimism of making money in the future makes venture funds to invest in such companies, and the companies keep incurring losses. At its peak, e-commerce major Flipkart was reportedly burning USD…
(ET) The import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) increased 6.8 per cent year-on-year in the nine months to December 2019 as local output declined and demand expanded. LNG import expanded to 23.58 billion cubic meters in April-December 2019 when gross production shrank 3.2 per cent and total consumption climbed 3.9 per cent. The share of LNG in total domestic consumption expanded to 51.6 per cent during this period from 47.9 per cent in the year-ago period. In December, the rise in LNG import was much sharper at 22.8 per cent as local production fell 7.9 per cent and consumption expanded 5.9 per cent.…
(LiveMint) The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will initially raise Rs.15,000-20,000 crore in its maiden InvIT offer and then go for a larger round, depending on the response it receives from investors, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said. NHAI’s InvIT offer, expected in the months ahead, is part of the government’s plans to tap alternative sources of financing to boost public spending in the roads and infrastructure sector amid declining private sector interest in the build, operate and transfer model, where the entire initial cost is borne by them. In addition to the InvIT offer, the government has firmed up funds from domestic…
(ET) GC Murmu, lieutenant governor of Jammu & Kashmir, in consultation with the Jammu & Kashmir high court has empowered courts of principal district and sessions judges to try all electricity-related offences like power theft, theft of cables and material, and negligently damaging works. The central Electricity Act became applicable to the UT from October 31, 2019. “In exercise of powers of sub-section (1) (2) and (3) of Section 153 of Electricity Act, the Lieutenant Governor of Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir in consultation with the common High Court of Jammu & Kashmir as special court for trial of offences under the aforesaid Act within…