(ET) Having electrified all households, the newly elected Modi government resolves to provide round-the clock electricity at affordable rates, power and renewable energy minister RK Singh said. “Our next agenda is 24×7 supply and that electricity should be affordable. Reliability, sustainability and affordability of power will be a priority,” he told the media after taking charge. “In the last few years, we ensured electricity reaches every home,” he said adding priority will also be to bring change in sector with respect to international commitments and environment. Singh was inducted into the council of ministers of the new government on Thursday.…
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(ET) The first session of the newly-elected Lok Sabha has been convened from June 17 to July 26 and the new government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will present its first Budget on July 5, in which it is expected to provide an insight about the programmes to be undertaken in the second term. The 40-day session will have 30 sittings, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Friday while addressing a press conference after the first meeting of the new Union Cabinet. The first two days of the session have been kept for oath taking by the newly…
(PTI) Amit Shah will be the new Home minister, Rajnath Singh the new Defence minister and Nirmala Sitharaman the new Finance minister, the Rashtrapati Bhavan announced on Friday. Former foreign secretary turned minister S Jaishankar has got the External Affairs ministry while Smriti Irani will be the new Women and Child Development Minister along with retaining the Textile Ministry, according to a communiqu issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Nirmala Sitharaman will be the new Finance and Corporate Affairs minister while Nitin Gadkari will continue to be the Minister for Road Transport and Highways. Piyush Goyal has been given the charge of the…
(AT) मोदी मंत्रिमंडल में मंत्रालयों का बंटवारा हो गया है. अमित शाह को गृह मंत्रालय और एस. जयशंकर को विदेश मंत्रालय का जिम्मा दिया गया है. इसके अलावा राजनाथ सिंह को रक्षा, निर्मला सीतारमण को वित्त, नितिन गडकरी को परिवहन, नरेंद्र तोमर को कृषि और पंचायती राज मंत्रालय का जिम्मा दिया गया है. इसके अलावा सदानंद गौड़ा को रसायन एवं उर्वरक, पीयूष गोयल को रेल, धर्मेंद्र प्रधान को पेट्रोलियम, रविशंकर प्रसाद को कानून, स्मृति ईरानी को कपड़ा मंत्रालय के महिला एवं बाल विकास, हर्षवर्धन को स्वास्थ्य, रमेश पोखरियाल निशंक को मानव संसाधन विकास, मुख्तार अब्बास नकवी को अल्पसंख्यक कल्याण मंत्रालय…
(FE) The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved Tata Steel’s Rs 805-crore bid for Bhushan Energy, a unit that belonged to the Delhi-based Singal family. Bhushan Energy would be Tata Steel’s second acquisition of an insolvent firm from the Singal family. In May last year, Tata Steel had acquired Bhushan Steel for Rs 35,200 crore through the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) route. Bhushan Energy has around Rs 4,000-crore debt. Its liquidation value was seen at Rs 755 crore. On a petition moved by State Bank of India, insolvency proceedings against Bhushan Energy under Section 7 of the Code was admitted by the NCLT’s…
(Hindustan) बसपा सुप्रीमो मायावती लोकसभा चुनाव के बाद पहली बैठक करने जा रही हैं। वह 3 जून को दिल्ली में बैठक करेंगी। इसमें नवनिर्वाचित सांसद, लोकसभा प्रत्याशी, जोन इंचार्जों के साथ जिलाध्यक्षों को भी बुलाया गया है। मायावती की यह बैठक कई मायने में अहम मानी जा रही है। बसपा प्रमुख लोकसभा चुनाव में गठबंधन को अपेक्षित सफलता न मिलने के कारणों की जहां समीक्षा करेंगी, वहीं भविष्य की राजनीति पर भी चर्चा करेंगी। बसपा के जिलाध्यक्षों, जोन इंचार्जों, नवनिर्वाचित सांसदों व लोकसभा प्रत्याशियों को 3 जून को दिल्ली स्थिति केंद्रीय पार्टी कार्यालय 11 गुरुद्वारा रकाबगंज रोड पर 10 बजे…
(LiveMint) Credited with giving a strong fight to Naveen Patnaik in Odisha, 49-year old Dharmendra Pradhan was sworn in on Thursday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new council of ministers. The Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament was the BJP’s face in Odisha, a key state for its rising east strategy, winning eight Lok Sabha seats compared to one in 2014. The BJP, which had won 10 seats in the 2014 Odisha assembly elections, also upped its tally to 23 seats. With soft-spoken Pradhan at the helm of petroleum ministry, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government leveraged the marque Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala…
(DJ) संगठन में अपनी कुशलता प्रदर्शित करने वाले अमित शाह के मोदी सरकार में आने के खास मायने हैं। एक तरफ जहां यह माना जा रहा है कि अहम पड़ाव पर वह वित्त जैसे संवेदनशील मंत्रालय की कमान थामेंगे। वहीं यह भी मानकर चला जा रहा है कि सरकार में वह सामंजस्य का भी जिम्मा देखेंगे। वैसे उनके सरकार में शामिल होने के साथ ही भाजपा के नए अध्यक्ष को लेकर भी अटकलें तेज हो गई हैं और पूर्व स्वास्थ्य मंत्री जेपी नड्डा का नाम सबसे आगे है। यूं तो गुजरात में वह गृह मंत्री की जिम्मेदारी संभाल चुके हैं…
(FE) Coal India on Thursday beat analyst estimates by reporting a whopping 362% year-on-year jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 6,024.23 crore for the March quarter of FY19. For the entire year, the growth in profit was 148% to Rs 17,462.18 crore as against Rs 7,038.44 crore in the last fiscal. This has been the highest-ever profit booked by CIL so far in its history of operation. It also reported the highest growth in profit after tax, profit before tax, gross and net sales. The profit mainly came on account of higher premium from e-auctions, which was as high as…
(LiveMint) PM Narendra Modi has included BJP president Amit Shah and ex-diplomat S. Jaishankar in his cabinet. Sushma Swaraj, Suresh Prabhu, Jayant Sinha and some other ex-ministers are not part of Modi 2.0 In a balancing act, two dominant communities of Karnataka–Lingayats and Vokkaligas– have beenaccommodated in the Narendra Modi-led new council of ministers. D V Sadananda Gowda and Pralhad Joshi, who were Karnataka BJP presidents, along with Belgaum MP Suresh Angadi have found place in the new ministry. Nityanand Rai, Rattan Lal Kataria, V Muraleedharan, Renuka Singh Saruta and Som Parkash take oath as ministers of state. Maneka Gandhi is also…