(DNA) In a startling departure from convention, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said it was time to recognise that Modi’s governance model wasn’t a ‘complete negative story’ and that ‘demonizing him all the time is not going to help’. Speaking at a book launch on Wednesday, Ramesh said it was time to recognise that over 30% of the electorate voted for Modi. The BJP got 37.4% of votes in the 2019 elections with NDA getting 45%. He made the remarks on Wednesday at a book launch. He said: “He (PM Modi) talks in a language that connects him with the people. Unless…
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(PTI) In a major relief to the MSME sector facing liquidity shortage, the government on Friday announced that all their pending GST refunds will be paid within 30 days. Also, in future, all GST refunds of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) will be paid within 60 days from the date of application, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said while announcing a slew of measures to boost growth. The minister also said the decision on recommendations of the U K Sinha Committee regarding ease of credit, marketing, technology and delayed payments to MSMEs will be taken within 30 days. The government would also consider amendment to the MSME Act…
(ET) The power ministry has approved a proposal to declare ocean energy as renewable energy, an official statement said. The decision would boost ocean energy in India, the statement said. Accordingly, the Ministry of New and renewable energy has clarified to all the stakeholders that energy produced using various forms of ocean energy such as tidal, wave, ocean thermal energy conversion etc. shall be considered as renewable energy and shall be eligible for meeting the non-solar Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPO), it said. India had in 2015 committed to reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33-35% by 2030 from the 2005…
(Hindustan) अमेरिका की ओर से गुरुवार को कहा गया कि जम्मू और कश्मीर राज्य के लिए अनुच्छेद 370 पर भारत का निर्णय एक आंतरिक मामला है, बावजूद इसके यह क्षेत्रीय निहितार्थ हैं और राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प उम्मीद करते हैं कि आगामी जी -7 की बैठक में भारत के प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी से जब मिलेंगे तब इस मुद्दे पर बात होगी। जिससे क्षेत्रीय तनाव को कम किया जा सके और राज्य में मानवाधिकारों को भी बनाए रखा जा सके। समिट से पहले राष्ट्रपति ट्रंप के एजेंडे की पत्रकारों को जानकारी देने वाले एक वरिष्ठ अधिकारी ने यह भी कहा कि राष्ट्रपति ट्रंप पाकिस्तान से नियंत्रण…
(PTI) Hindustan Petroleum, which is a minority partner in the proposed West Coast Refinery, feels Saudi Aramco, the single largest shareholder in the 60 million tonne project, partnering with Reliance will have no impact on the now-stuck project. Mukesh Surana, the chairman of the ONGC-run HPCL, also said the work on the controversial Rs 4 trillion refinery and petrochemicals project is on track. It can be noted that the location for the project is yet to be identified after the one identified earlier in Ratnagiri was abandoned due to public and political protests last year. Speaking to reporters after the…
(MidDay) Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das and Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will launch CNG supply stations in Ranchi today. K.B. Singh, Executive Director of GAIL, the eastern region said that the Union Minister launch the CNG stations at Madhuvan Bihar and Kakuri of Ranchi along with Chief Minister Raghubar Das and Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda. According to news agency IANS, the natural gas will reach Ranchi in special containers which will be transported by road from Patna. Later the natural gas will be supplied through Jamshedpur-Haldia and Bokaro-Dharama natural gas pipeline which is popularly known as Pradhan Mantri…
67th Annual General Meeting of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited was held on 21st August 2019 at Y B Chavan Centre, Mumbai. During the meeting Chairman and Managing Director along with Functional Directors addressed the shareholders about the performance of the Corporation during FY 2018-19 and future plans. Subsequently in the evening, they interacted with the press and responded to Media queries about the performance of the Corporation during FY 2018-19 and future plans. HPCL plans to invest Rs. 74,000 crore in next 5 years in refining, petrochemical and petroleum marketing. In 2018-19, HPCL recorded highest ever refining thruput of 18.44 MMT and…
(PTI) The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the ruling BJP is going to initiate the process for its organisational polls with a meeting of senior leaders on Thursday, state election in-charge S Varinderjeet Singh. Member of Parliament and the party’s election co-incharge Vinod Sonkar will attend the meeting as the Centre’s representative, he said, adding that ministers, office-bearers of the party’s state unit, district presidents, MPs and former legislators will also attend the meeting to be chaired by Jammu and Kashmir BJP chief Ravinder Raina. “The election process will start on Thursday and the entire exercise will take about four months. It will include the…
(ET) Taking the offensive, India has refused to renew its 1989 agreement of sharing hydrological data during flood season with Pakistan and told the neighbour that it would only provide information on “extraordinary discharges and flood flows.” The agreement, a result of an earlier India’s goodwill gesture, was renewed every year. But the Indian position has changed, coinciding with heightened tensions over the abrogation of Jammu & Kashmir’s special status and the bifurcation of the state into two Union Territories. “This agreement was not renewed in the current year by us,” P K Saxena, Indian Commissioner for Indus Waters, told…
(LiveMint) After a day-long drama, former finance minister P. Chidambaram was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from his residence in New Delhi late on Wednesday in connection with the INX Media case. While the senior Congress leader was grilled overnight at CBI headquarters, where he was taken after officials forced entry into his home by scaling the walls of his residence on, Chidambaram will be produced later on Thursday before a CBI special court, where the probe agency is likely to push for custodial interrogation. “The CBI will push for at least three days of custodial interrogation. Now his lawyers…