(PTI) Paying glowing tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on National Unity Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday defended the abrogation of Article 370, saying the special status provisions only generated terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. Attending a function at the Statue of Unity here on the occasion of Patel’s 144th birth anniversary, Modi led the gathering in taking the `national unity pledge’. “The new system in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh is not meant to draw a line on the land (to draw a boundary) but to build a strong link of trust,” the prime minister said, apparently referring to…
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(PTI) SAP India on Wednesday said it has partnered with Project Nanhi Kali to provide education and digital access to over 12,000 girls by December next year. SAP India runs a programme called ‘Code Unnati’, which was launched in 2017 and has already provided employment-led digital literacy and software skills to one million adolescents in the country. It has set up about 500 centres to facilitate the initiative. “Our collaboration with Nanhi Kali will help girl students to be digitally ready and empower them to bring about a positive change in the economy,” SAP Labs India Senior Vice President and Managing…
(AU) महाराष्ट्र में सत्ता की उलझी गुत्थी सुलझाने के लिए इसी हफ्ते भाजपा अध्यक्ष अमित शाह और शिवसेना प्रमुख उद्धव ठाकरे के बीच बैठक हो सकती है। फिलहाल दोनों दल मध्यस्थों के जरिए नई सरकार के गठन का ठोस रोडमैप तैयार करने में जुटे हैं। कार्यकाल का आधा-आधा बंटवारा और सीएम पद के मुख्य विवाद का बीच का रास्ता निकलते ही दोनों नेताओं की मुलाकात होगी। भाजपा सूत्रों के मुताबिक भले ही सार्वजनिक तौर पर भाजपा और शिवसेना में खींचतान दिख रही है, मगर दोनों दल मध्यस्थों के जरिये लगातार संपर्क में हैं। भाजपा ने साफ कर दिया है कि…
(ET) The government is weighing options of terminating the production-sharing contract (PSC) or invoking arbitration to penalise Reliance IndustriesNSE 0.58 % (RIL) for selling to itself all the coal bed methane (CBM) it produces, allegedly in violation of policy, sources said. The government has informed RIL of its objection to the gas sale, but the company asserted it had acted transparently and correctly, sources familiar with the development said. A RIL spokesman told ET that the gas sale had also maximised government benefits because it won the auction by bidding a higher price, which, in turn, increases the state share…
(AU) जम्मू कश्मीर और लद्दाख दोनों प्रदेशों में आज से इंडियन पैनल कोड (आईपीसी) के तहत आपराधिक मामले दर्ज होंगे। जम्मू कश्मीर और लद्दाख पुलिस अब अपने-अपने प्रदेश के लेफ्टिनेंट गवर्नर को रिपोर्ट करेगी। हालांकि जम्मू कश्मीर में फिलहाल अभी कुछ समय के लिए पुलिस के जो अफसर जहां तैनात हैं, वहीं पर तैनात रहेंगे। कार्यप्रणाली में कोई बदलाव नहीं होगा। आज से लद्दाख पुलिस भी अलग होगी। हालांकि अभी यह साफ नहीं हो पाया है कि लद्दाख पुलिस किसको रिपोर्ट करेगी। सूत्रों की मानें तो दोनों प्रदेशों की पुलिस व्यवस्था फिलहाल जम्मू कश्मीर पुलिस के पास ही होगी। डीजीपी…
(ET) The UP police have been put on high alert to ensure proper law and order across the state ahead of the Supreme Court judgement on the Ayodhya issue. UP police have undertaken special exercises like closely monitoring messages on social media, maintaining regular contacts with ‘maulavis’ (Muslim clerics) and ‘pujaris’ (priests) of different mosques/ temples, keeping a vigil on new posters/slogans put up on walls at public places and preparing proper data containing names of persons responsible from both communities at the ground level to maintaining a proper audit of their own man-power resources.The state government has advised senior police…
(ET) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on said India has the third-largest startup ecosystem in the world, as he sought foreign direct investment (FDI) for the sector. He also invited Saudi Arabian companies to invest in India’s energy space, saying the government has set a target of $100 billion investment in the sector by 2024. In his keynote address to the Future Investment Initiative or Davos of the Desert, Modi underlined the importance of technology and infrastructure.Later, at an interactive session, Modi rued that strong people are using the UN as an instrument and the global body does not contribute to…
(TH) Public sector steel major SAIL may replace fellow PSU mining company, NMDC, in a steel-making joint venture with an Australian technology company. In May 2018, two Indian PSUs – NMDC and NLC India Ltd – signed an agreement with Environmental Clean Technologies of Australia to use the Australian company’s ‘Matmor’ technology to make steel with cheap lignite rather than costly coking coal.
(ZeeBiz) The consumption of petroleum and gas products in India is rising, but almost half of the country’s natural gas has to be imported. To find domestic alternatives, the Modi government is planning to speed up the search for shale gas and oil reserves in the country. Various companies have been asked to submit plans regarding this. Taking this process forward is Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who met Y K Modi, Executive Chairman, and Prashant Modi, MD & CEO, Great Eastern Energy Corporation Limited (GEECL). The minister said, ”Happy to learn that GEECL is planning huge investment for Shale…
(ET) BP is still looking to close its deal with Bunge Ltd to merge sugar and ethanol assets in Brazil in 2019, so the companies can go on to plan their operations together for the new cane season that starts in early 2020. BP’s chief executive for biofuels, Mario Lindenhayn, told reporters on the sidelines of Datagro’s sugar conference in Sao Paulo the oil major was just waiting for the green light of antitrust bodies in three countries, including China, to close the deal. “We already had the approval from Brazil and the European Union, and we are expecting remaining approvals still this year, that…