(PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the government is open to further reforms for making India a more attractive investment destination. The government has taken various steps, including reduction of corporate tax, she said at India-Sweden Business Summit here. “I only can invite and assure that the Government of India is committed for further reforms in various sectors whether it is banking, mining or insurance and so on,” she said.She invited Swedish firms to invest in infrastructure development projects.India plans to invest about Rs 100 lakh crore in infrastructure sector in the next five years.
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(PTI) BJP chief Amit Shah on Monday set a 2024 deadline for implementing the hugely divisive NRC across the country, asserting “each and every” infiltrator will be identified and expelled before the next general election. Notwithstanding the admission by some BJP leaders in West Bengal that apprehensions over the NRC had cost the party dearly in the recent bypolls there, the Union Home Minister told poll rallies in neighbouring Jharkhand that the nation- wide exercise will be conducted despite reservations voiced by opposition parties. “Today, I want to tell you that before the 2024 polls the NRC will be conducted…
(Tribune) Thousands of vehicle owners, including taxi and bus operators, are not getting FASTag stickers in the state. None of companies, authorised to sell FASTags, has approached the State Transport Department for the opening of the sale counter to facilitate the applicants, officials said. The vehicles owners, however, have heaved a sigh of relief as the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways has extended the deadline for toll collection at toll plazas through FASTag stickers from December 1 to 15. The department, however, is not taking the deadline seriously on the plea that there is no toll plaza on the national…
(Tribune) NASA’s Moon-orbiting spacecraft has found the debris of Chandrayaan 2’s lander Vikram on the surface of the Moon, the US space agency confirmed on Tuesday, nearly three months after India’s ambitious mission made a hard landing near the uncharted lunar south pole. On September 7, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) attempted a soft landing of Vikram on the Moon. However, ISRO lost contact with Vikram shortly before the scheduled touchdown. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Camera team released the first mosaic, acquired on September 17, of the site on September 26.Indian Engineer Shanmuga Subramanian contacted NASA’s project after which, the…
(AU) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी झारखंड विधानसभा चुनाव के दूसरे दौर के मतदान से पहले मंगलवार को खूंटी और जमशेदपुर में दो चुनावी सभाओं को संबोधित करेंगे। भाजपा प्रवक्ता शिव पूजन पाठक ने बताया कि प्रधानमंत्री की पहली सभा खूंटी में सुबह लगभग 11 बजे आयोजित होगी जिसके बाद वह अपराह्र लगभग एक बजे जमशेदपुर में दूसरी चुनावी सभा को संबोधित करेंगे। जमशेदपुर में खुद मुख्यमंत्री रघुवर दास जमशेदपुर पूर्वी सीट से उम्मीदवार हैं जिन्हें उन्हीं के मंत्रिमंडल के सदस्य रहे सरयू राय भ्रष्टाचार के मुद्दों पर चुनौती दे रहे हैं। जबकि खूंटी से भाजपा ने रघुवर दास मंत्रिमंडल में मंत्री रहे नीलकंठ…
(LiveMint) Are you a State Bank of India (SBI) customer? Have you still not changed your SBI magnetic stripes ATM cards to the more secured chip ones. Well the bank has given you another chance to update the same. SBI has asked its customers to update their magnetic stripes ATM-cum-debit cards to the ones with EMV chips before 31 December 2019. “Apply now to change your Magnetic Stripe Debit Cards to the more secure EMV Chip and PIN based SBI Debit card at your home branch by 31st December, 2019. Safeguard yourself with guaranteed authenticity, greater security for online payments…
(AU) राजधानी में 12 से 16 जनवरी तक होने वाले 23वें राष्ट्रीय युवा महोत्सव का उद्घाटन प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी कर सकते हैं। प्रधानमंत्री के आने की संभावना के मद्देनजर महोत्सव की तैयारियां तेज कर दी गई हैं। मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ ने संबंधित विभाग के अधिकारियों को निर्देश दिए हैं कि महोत्सव में युवकों को आंमत्रित करने के लिए सभी राज्यों को पत्र शीघ्र भेज दिया जाए। मुख्यमंत्री ने यह निर्देश सोमवार को महोत्सव की तैयारियों की समीक्षा के दौरान दिए हैं। उन्होंने एनसीसी, एनएसएस, युवक मंगल दल के अलावा अन्य क्षेत्रों में बेहतरीन काम करने वाले युवाओं को अलग से…
(ET) Coal India managed to increase coal production 27% month-on-month in November at 50 million tonnes. “The company managed to produce nearly 11 million tonnes more coal than in October. Coal off-take for November 2019 grew by almost 17% on a month-on-month comparison. CIL supplied 47.37 million tonnes of coal during the month under review compared to 40.5 million tonnes in October 2019 – the increase in absolute terms is 6.87 million tonnes,” a senior Coal India executive said. “Coal India generally compensates for the production drop of the first half of the fiscal, during the second half and accordingly our production has begun to…
(ET) The petroleum ministry has asked oil marketing companies Bharat Petroleum and Indian Oil to recover Rs 108 crore from its employees after the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) found that these companies had given pre-loaded cards and vouchers to them on completion of 15, 20 and 25 years of service in violation of rules. The pre-loaded cards and vouchers were issued in place of gold coins distributed earlier, which was stopped in 2015 after the ministry said these were over and above the entitlement of bonus and thus in violation of government rules. “The expenditure of Rs 107.63 crore incurred…
(ET) After a three-day general executive meeting in Haridwar, the economic unit of RSS – Swadeshi Jagran Manch – has come out with a strong statement slamming the PSU disinvestment programme of the Modi government. It said the move to divest companies such as Air India, BSNL and BPCL was “opposed to national interest and prone to being misused by corrupt officials to benefit special business houses”. In October, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in his Vijayadashami speech had supported the Centre’s foreign direct investment (FDI) and disinvestment ideas and had said the government was compelled to take these steps. SJM has also demanded that Niti Aayog’s report on public…