(TH) The Jammu and Kashmir administration will release three politicians detained since August 5 after the Centre revoked the special status granted to the State under the Constitution, officials said on Wednesday night. Yawar Mir, Noor Mohammed and Shoaib Lone will be released on various grounds which includes signing of a bond, they said, explaining the reasons for ending of their detention. While Mr. Mir is a former MLA of the PDP from Rafiabad assembly seat, Mr. Lone contested unsuccessfully on a Congress ticket from North Kashmir and later resigned from the party. He was considered close to People’s Conference chief Sajjad…
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(ET) Indian refiner Reliance Industries Ltd is scheduled to resume loading Venezuelan crude in October after a four-month pause, according to sources and internal documents from PDVSA seen by Reuters, a move that could help Venezuela’s state-run company drain its large oil inventories. The United States in January imposed the toughest sanctions yet on Venezuela’s oil industry, depriving the OPEC-member nation of the main destination for its crude exports. In August, Washington escalated sanctions further by threatening non-U.S. companies with punitive action if they “materially assist” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government. The measures have scared away several of PDVSA’s largest customers and tanker operators, causing a…
(FE) Solar thermal industry players are confident of getting back into the boom trajectory and expect the sector to clock a growth of 10% after the reduction of GST rate on inputs for solar components from 18% to 5%. When the goods and services tax (GST) was reduced earlier, the rate on inputs for solar components was fixed at 5%. However, the wording used was ‘solar power devices and components’, as a result solar thermal components that generate ‘heat’ were classified under non-power devices inviting 18% GST. Solar Thermal Federation of India (STFI) secretary general Jaideep Malaviya said they approached GST…
(PTI) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a review meeting with CEOs of public sector banks (PSBs) next week to discuss various issues, including progress on credit offtake. The meeting, scheduled to be held on October 14, is expected to review fund flow to stressed NBFC and MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises) sectors, sources said. Banks are expected to present report card on partial credit guarantee scheme and fund raising from market to enhance their capital base.The Centre in August issued guidelines on operationalising Rs 1 lakh crore partial guarantee scheme under which PSBs can purchase high-rated pooled assets of…
(PTI) Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit India from October 11 to 12 to take part in the 2nd informal summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during which they are expected to hold comprehensive talks on a host of issues concerning the bilateral relations and exchange views on regional and international issues. Xi will attend the second informal meeting with Modi at Mamallapuram near Chennai from October 11 to 12 and pay a state visit to Nepal on October 13, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying announced on Wednesday. This is the 2nd informal summit between Modi and Xi. The first…
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the relaxation of the mandatory requirement of Aadhaar Seeded data as a pre-condition for release of funds to the beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri KisanSamman Nidhi (PM-Kisan) scheme. The scheme provides income support of Rs 6,000 per year to landholding families, subject to certain exclusions. The amount is released in three 4-monthly instalments of Rs 2,000 each directly to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries through DBT mode. Under this scheme, after 1st August, 2019, release of 3rd Instalment onwards to those beneficiaries who got first instalment…
Shri P K Gupta takes over as the Chairman & Managing Director of NBCC (India) Ltd., a Navratna CPSE, on October 7, 2019. An order no. O-17034/31/2019-PS dtd 7th Oct. 2019, to this effect has been issued by the administrative Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Govt. of India. Before taking over the charge of CMD, NBCC, he was Executive Director (Regional Projects) in RITES Limited, also a CPSE under the Ministry of Railways. Shri Gupta holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from NIT, Kurukshetra and an M.Tech from IIT Delhi. He joined Indian Railway Service of Engineers in…
(ET) Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said that the Bharat Stage (BS) VI fuel will be made available in the country from April 1 next year. “The BS-VI fuel will be made available from April 1 in the country. The BS-VI compliant vehicles will also be made available from next year. This initiative will reduce pollution in the air by 80-90 per cent,” Javadekar said while speaking to media. Javadekar was in Jaipur to participate in a tree plantation event at the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) here on the occasion of Vijayadashami. The minister further informed that in a bid…
(DJ) भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक (RBI) के गवर्नर शक्तिकांत दास ने कहा है कि बैंक की मौद्रिक नीति समिति (एमपीसी) रेपो रेट में और कटौती पर विचार करती रहेगी। उन्होंने कहा कि अर्थव्यवस्था के इस चरण में यह नहीं कहा जा सकता कि रेपो रेट की न्यूनतम सीमा क्या हो जहां से इसे और नहीं घटाया जा सकता है। अगली बैठक में एमपीसी ही यह तय करेगी कि रेपो रेट घटाया जाना चाहिए या नहीं। लेकिन इतना तय है कि अर्थव्यवस्था को गति देने के लिए आरबीआइ रेपो रेट में कटौती की अपनी सोच पर आगे बढ़ता रहेगा। दास से पूछा…
(DJ) विजयादशमी के दिन भारत ने दुनिया के सबसे मारक लड़ाकू जेट विमान राफेल (Rafale) को औपचारिक तौर पर हासिल कर लिया है। रक्षामंत्री राजनाथ सिंह (Defence Minister Rajnath Singh) ने फ्रांस (France) में एक गरिमापूर्ण समारोह में इस बहुचर्चित और बहुप्रतीक्षित राफेल विमान को प्राप्त किया। इस दौरान दुनिया भर की लगी निगाहों के बीच पूजा के बाद राजनाथ सिंह ने राफेल में उड़ान भी भरी। रक्षामंत्री ने राफेल विमान का विधि विधान पूर्वक शस्त्र पूजन कर भारतीय वायुसेना की सामरिक ताकत में हो रहे इस इजाफे का शंखनाद किया। राफेल में लगभग आधे घंटे की उड़ान भर कर…