(ET) Days after India ruled out a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit this week, China has tried to play facilitator and suggested that India should reciprocate Khan’s peace missive and enter into a dialogue suspended since January 2016. In an indirect reference to the SCO Summit, which will be attended by the prime ministers of both India and Pakistan, China’s state-run English daily Global Times has suggested that India’s cooperation with Islamabad is “indispensable to fight against terrorism if New Delhi wants to promote a global…
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(FE) The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) proposes to award 6,000-km highway projects in the current fiscal. If achieved, this would be the second-best for the authority ever, in terms of project awards. In 2017-18, NHAI had awarded 7,400 km highway projects. The authority has also set its highest construction target ever for 2019-20. The authority, which had built 3,320 highways in 2018-19, hopes to construct 4,500 km (12.32km/day) in 2019-20, proposing to clock over 35% growth. A source in the authority said a majority of the projects would be awarded through the hybrid annuity model (HAM) in 2019-20, in…
(LiveMint) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday said commercial banks need to offer holders of basic savings bank deposit (BSBD) accounts, a minimum of four withdrawals in a month, including automatic teller machine (ATM) withdrawals. The rules will come into force from 1 July. In its earlier direction on 10 August 2012, the central bank had said while there will be no limit on the number of deposits that can be made in a BSBD account each month, account holders will be allowed up to four withdrawals in a month, including ATM withdrawals. The BSBD account was designed as a savings account…
(ET) The government has set up an expert panel to consider allowing private firms to sell subsidized cooking gas — a long-standing demand for companies like Reliance Industries because state firms dominate the market by luring customers with a lot of subsidies. Reliance Industries, which runs the world’s biggest refinery at Jamnagar, is a big producer of LPG and has been lobbying the government for years to permit private players to distribute subsidized cylinders. State oil firms sell cylinders to customers at market price but buyers are soon paid the subsidy in their bank accounts, which makes the fuel effectively much…
(ET) West Bengal BJP unit is planning to hold a demonstration against the Mamata Banerjee government on June 12 in Kolkata. According to BJP leaders, the state government is trying to intimidate BJP workers. “The protest would be against the misuse of government resources to intimidate the BJP workers in the state,” said Kailash Vijayvargiya, BJP general secretary.“The BJP MPs are not being allowed to hold Vijay Julus or Abhar Yatra in their constituencies while Trinamool MPs MPs can freely do so.” Vijayvargiya urged chief minister Mamata Banerjee to treat everyone equally.
(Hindustan) उत्तर प्रदेश के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री व समाजवादी पार्टी के संरक्षक मुलायम सिंह यादव को सोमवार रात करीब सवा आठ बजे मेदांता अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया गया। उन्हें आइसीयू में दाखिल किया गया है। ग़ौरतलब हो कि शुगर बढ़ने के कारण स्वास्थ्य बिगड़ने के बाद उन्हें रविवार को लखनऊ के पीजीआई में भर्ती कराया गया था। डॉक्टरों के रिपोर्ट सामान्य बताने के बाद पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री को घर ले जाया गया था। सोमवार को फिर से तबीयत खराब होने बाद उन्हें गुरुग्राम के मेदांता लाया गया। मेदांता में उनका इलाज सीनियर फिजिशियन डॉ. सुशीला कटारिया की देख-रेख में किया जा रहा है। मुलायम…
(Hindustan) उत्तर प्रदेश में महिलाओं और बालिकाओं के साथ बढ़ रहे अपराधों पर रोक लगाने के लिए मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ ने सख्त कदम उठाने के निर्देश पुलिस अधिकारियों को दिए हैं। उन्होंने कहा कि प्रत्येक रेंज से नाबालिक बालिकाओं के साथ हुए जघन्य अपराधों के 10-10 मामलों को चिन्हित कर फास्ट ट्रैक कोर्ट में मुकदमा चलवाया जाए। ऐसे अपराधियों को कड़ी से कड़ी सजा दिलाई जाए। मुख्यमंत्री ने एंटी रोमियो दस्ते को तत्काल सक्रिय करने के निर्देश दिए हैं। मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ ने महिला सुरक्षा को लेकर सोमवार को लोकभवन में उच्चस्तरीय बैठक की। उन्होंने पुलिस अफसरों से कहा कि…
(FE) Petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan discussed volatility in crude oil prices and its impact on Indian consumers with US energy secretary Rick Perry. The telephone conversation came in the backdrop of tightening US sanctions on Iran, and production curbs by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec). India had kept its option open to buy oil from Iran, with former foreign minister Sushma Swaraj informing her visiting Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, in May that New Delhi will take a decision after the national elections, which concluded last month. India was among Iran’s top oil buyers with imports of 23.5 million tonnes in…
(ET) BJP chief Amit Shah was back to doing what he is best known for preparing the party roadmap for elections. On Sunday, he held meetings at the party headquarters here with state unit core groups of Haryana, Jharkhand and Maharashtra where Assembly elections are to be held later this year. Since the Lok Sabha election results were announced on May 23, Shah has been busy assisting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in government formation and then taking over the reins of the Home Ministry. On Sunday, he got down to chalking the broad strategy for the three poll-bound states where the…
(DJ) शंघाई सहयोग संगठन (एससीओ) के इस हफ्ते बिश्केक में होने वाले सम्मेलन के बीच प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी से चीनी राष्ट्रपति शी चिनफिंग अलग से मुलाकात करेंगे। आम चुनाव में भाजपा को प्रचंड बहुमत मिलने के बाद दोनों नेताओं की यह पहली बैठक होगी। शंघाई सहयोग संगठन (एससीओ) सम्मेलन किर्गिस्तान के बिश्केक में 13-14 जून को होना है। एससीओ चीन के नेतृत्व वाला आठ सदस्यीय आर्थिक व सुरक्षा समूह है। इसमें भारत और पाकिस्तान वर्ष 2017 में शामिल हुए हैं। चीन में भारतीय राजदूत विक्रम मिस्री ने पिछले हफ्ते कहा था कि मोदी और चिनफिंग एससीओ सम्मेलन के इतर मुलाकात करेंगे।…