HPCL bags ‘Best Navratna’ award in ‘Manufacturing Category’ at Dun & Bradstreet PSU Awards 2019 consecutively for second year in a row. The award ceremony was held on 22nd August, 2019 at New Delhi. The award winners were felicitated by Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant, Hon’ble Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprise; in the august presence of Shri Subhash Chandra Garg, Secretary, Ministry of Power, and Shri Manish Sinha, Managing Director-India, Dun & Bradstreet. CGM – Co-ordination, Shri Alok Kumar Gupta and CGM- PRCC, Shri Rajeev Goel received the award on behalf of HPCL. Dun & Bradstreet PSU Awards have been…
Author: Aruna Sharma
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan today held a meeting with Australian Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator the Hon. Matthew Canavan. Both Ministers stressed on the importance of energy and resources in the bilateral relationship, and agreed to expand the scope of cooperation given that India offers a large energy market and Australia is rich in natural resources particularly coal and LNG, apart from Uranium. Shri Pradhan mentioned that India is already an importer of LNG from Australia. Given India’s major initiatives to move into a gas-based economy, there is significant scope for expanding LNG imports from…
Team India wins one Gold, one Silver and two Bronze medals along with 15 Medallions of Excellence across key skills More than 1,350 competitors participated from 63 countries across 56 skills and trades India finished 13th out of 63 countries that participated at the global competition Blazing a trail of glory for India at the global stage, the Indian Team returned with the best-ever finish at the WorldSkills International Competition 2019 in Kazan, Russia by winning 19 medals and Medallions of Excellence. The 48-member Indian team won one Gold, one Silver and two Bronze medals besides 15 Medallions of Excellence…
India has become the first country in the world to issue Biometric Seafarer Identity Document (BSID), capturing the facial bio-metric data of seafarers. Shri Mansukh Mandaviya, MoS (I/C) Shipping and Chemical & Fertilizers launched the project in New Delhi today. He also handed over the new BSID cards to five Indian seafarers. The new facial biometric technology is a marked improvement over the two finger or iris based bio-metric data, with modern security features. It will make the identification of the SID holder more reliable and efficient, while protecting their dignity and privacy. India had made a presentation on this technology at…
(Kalinga TV) Odisha’s S. Aswatha Narayana created history by winning the gold medal at the 45th WorldSkills Competition held in Kazan, Russia on Tuesday. 25-year-old Aswatha Narayan won the gold medal in water technology.Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has congratulated Aswatha Narayan on winning India’s first-ever gold medal at the WorldSkills Competition. Besides Aswatha Narayan, the Indian team won one silver and two bronze medals in the global event. Pranav Nutalapati, 17, from Karnataka, won silver medal in web technologies, while Sanjoy Pramanik, 21, from West Bengal and Shweta Ratanpura, 22 from Maharastra both won bronze medals in Jewellery and graphic design technology…
(ET) Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman hit out at Rahul Gandhi for accusing the government of stealing from the Reserve Bank, saying the Congress leader should have consulted his own past finance ministers before levelling such charges. She said the RBI decision to transfer Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the government this fiscal was based on the recommendations of the Bimal Jalan panel that was appointed by the central bank itself to look into its economic capital framework. “The Congress should have consulted its own finance ministers and senior leaders before making these allegations regarding the RBI,” Sitharaman told reporters here.…
(Steel Guru) Mr PK Rath, CMD of RINL, while reviewing the performance of the plant and current steel market scenario with senior management, has taken stock of the situation on Company’s financial front and the initiatives to improve the cash flow. He expressed the hope that Steel Industry has a great future and will recover shortly due to the government initiatives of infusing huge spending of several lakh crores on infrastructure projects, development of smart cities, highway developments, railway projects etc. He said “The sops announced by government to stimulate the economy will further boost the steel market.” Mr Rath…
(ET) In a race to be the top state in India, IEEFA has modelled the economic powerhouse Gujarat adding a staggering 46 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity by 2029-30, a new report said.The report, “Gujarat’s electricity sector transformation – A role-model of India’s electricity transition”, identifies Gujarat as one of the five leading states for renewable energy in terms of both existing generation capacity as well as future potential. Tim Buckley, co-author of the report and director of energy finance studies with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), said the Indian government has rightly identified the need to reduce its exposure to…
(PTI) The joint forum of AAI unions and association has urged the AAI chairman to convene a meeting to discuss the concerns in details over the handing over of six airports to Gujarat-based conglomerate Adani Group. In a letter to chairman last week, the Forum has also threatened to resort to agitation from next month by holding lunch hour demonstrations and wearing black badges to protest the move. Last year, the government had decided to privatise airports in Lucknow, Ahmedabad,Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati for operation, management and development through public-private partnership (PPP) model. In February, Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) won…
(AU) केंद्रीय मंत्री स्मृति ईरानी अपने संसदीय क्षेत्र अमेठी में बुधवार को पहुंचेंगी। वे छतोह मोड़ के मैदान में सभा को संबोधित करेंगी। इस दौरान वे क्षेत्रीय लोगों को छतोह ब्लॉक के भवन समेत कई परियोजनाओं का तोहफा देंगी। उनकी आगमन की तैयारियों को लेकर जिला और पुलिस प्रशासन सतर्क हो गया है। डीएम नेहा शर्मा मंगलवार देर शाम कार्यक्रम स्थल पर पहुंची और मातहतों से तैयारियों के बारे जानकारी ली। इस दौरान क्षेत्रीय विधायक दल बहादुर कोरी, एसडीएम आशीष सिंह, सीओ राघवेंद्र चतुर्वेदी ने ईरानी के आगमन की तैयारियों को लेकर विचार विमर्श किया।