(AU) पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री और पीडीपी प्रमुख महबूबा मुफ्ती ने कहा है कि विशेष दर्जा देने वाले संविधान के अनुच्छेद 370 और 35 ए से किसी तरह की छेड़छाड़ की गई तो जम्मू-कश्मीर को भारत का अंग बनाने वाली संधि अमान्य हो जाएगी। महबूबा ने आगाह किया कि यदि विशेष प्रावधान को रद किया जाता है तो हालात बिगड़ने के लिए कश्मीरियों को जिम्मेदार नहीं ठहराया जाना चाहिए। उन्होंने ट्वीट कर कहा कि अनुच्छेद 370 जम्मू-कश्मीर और भारत के बीच संवैधानिक संपर्क है। इंस्ट्रूमेंट ऑफ एक्सेशन (जम्मू-कश्मीर को भारत का अंग बनाने वाला दस्तावेज) अनुच्छेद 370 पर निर्भर करता है, जो…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(PTI) Saudi Arabia is looking at making India a regional hub for supply of crude oil and will invest billions of dollars in the country to build storage facilities and strengthen refineries, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir has said. Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, will also invest in downstream assets in India besides helping the country boost its infrastructure in the petrochemical sector, Al-Jubeir said. The foreign minister, who was part of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s delegation here, said his country looked at India as a rising economic power and was very bullish about…
(AU) शासन ने रविवार रात 8 आईएएस व 18 पीसीएस अफसरों के तबादले कर दिए। बहराइच के मुख्य विकास अधिकारी राहुल पांडेय को लोक निर्माण विभाग में विशेष सचिव बनाया गया है। स्थानांतरित 7 अन्य आईएएस अधिकारी अलग-अलग जिलों में ज्वाइंट मजिस्ट्रेट के रूप में तैनात थे। अलीगढ़ के ज्वाइंट मजिस्ट्रेट जोगिन्द्र सिंह को कानपुर देहात में सीडीओ बनाया गया है। बिजनौर के ज्वाइंटल मजिस्ट्रेट आलोक यादव को आयुष विभाग में विशेष सचिव के पद पर भेजा गया है। इसी तरह मुरादाबाद की ज्वाइंटल मजिस्ट्रेट अस्मिता लाल को विशेष सचिव एपीसी शाखा बनाया गया है। 18 पीसीएस अधिकारियों में कुछ…
(PTI) Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Public Sector Undertakings under his ministry have taken up various projects to upgrade educational facilities in 17 districts of Odisha. “The dream of New Odisha shall be incomplete without quality education and educational infrastructure,” Pradhan said while inaugurating the main campus of the Skill Development Institute (SDI), Bhubaneswar at Taraboi, Jatni near here. Pradhan said PSUs under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas have taken up various corporate social responsibility projects to upgrade educational facilities in 17 of the 30 districts of the state.These districts are Angul, Balasore, Baragarh, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Deogarh, Dhenknal, Jagatsinghpur, Jharsuguda, Kandhamal, Kendrapada, Khorda, Mayurbhanj, Nayagarh, Nuapada, Puri…
(FE) The GST Council approved a sharp reduction in the levy on homes under construction and raised the threshold for affordable housing that will make more purchases eligible for concessional tax, offering substantial relief to buyers ahead of the elections. Starting April 1, homes under construction will be levied 5% GST, against 12%. For affordable homes, GST will drop to 1% from 8%. Homes up to Rs 45 lakh and with a carpet area of up to 60 sq metres in metros and 90 sq metres in non-metro cities will be counted in the affordable segment, according to the new twin…
(PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India is on the way to becoming a USD 5 trillion economy soon and hoped that the country would be among the world’s top three economies in the next 15 years. Addressing the Indian diaspora here, the prime minister recounted several steps taken by his government in recent years, including several new initiatives like the Goods and Services Tax (GST), MUDRA initiative, to take India on a forward trajectory. He said that India is the world’s fastest-growing major economy. Today, India’s economy is on the 6th position and it will not take time to…
(FE) State-owned miner Coal India Ltd (CIL) said power plants based in Tamil Nadu have received lower supply of the fuel against their respective contracted quantities mainly due to logistics problems in the rail-cum-sea route and mismatch between the requisition placed by its subsidiaries and wagon supplied by Indian Railways. CIL said 12.6 million tonne of coal had been supplied to the Tamil Nadu state power generation corporation till January, 2019, against the 16.6 MT it was supposed to receive. “Frequent law and order problems in Talcher fields of Mahanadi Coal Fields” also contributed to the supply gap, CIL said. Nevertheless,…
(ET) Reiterating his warning to choke Pakistan’s water supply, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said the neighbouring country won’t get “even a single drop of water” from India if it continues to export terror. The senior BJP leader was addressing a meeting of party workers of Jabalpur region here. “(Pakistan PM) Imran Khan and others in that country are saying: how can India stop water to them? Remember, if you continue to support and export terrorism to India, Pakistan won’t get even a drop of water. Remember this,” Gadkari said. He said India was planning to build projects on three rivers flowing…
(AU) सपा के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष अखिलेश यादव शनिवार को शहर में होंगे। चुनाव से पहले आ रहे पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री कई सियासी मुद्दों को साधेंगे तो उनके इस दौरे से कई नेताओं का कद भी ऊंचा होगा। अखिलेश यादव के दौरे में कोई परिवर्तन तो नहीं हुआ है लेकिन, पूर्व निर्धारित कार्यक्रम से एक घंटा पहले ही वह आ जाएंगे। उनका विमान दिन में 10.45 बजे बमरौली एयरपोर्ट पर उतरेगा और वहां से वह जार्जटाउन स्थित सांसद नागेंद्र सिंह पटेल के आवास पर आएंगे। वहां से वह आंदोलन के दौरान लाठीचार्ज में घायल हुईं पार्टी की प्रदेश प्रवक्ता ऋचा सिंह का हालचाल…
(ET) Finance minister Arun Jaitley said the government’s economic reforms programme had ensured that its benefits went to those sections that were worst-off and had traditionally been excluded from the gains that accrued from such policy changes. He also characterized allegations that the government was undermining institutions as fake and said the dispute with the central bank stemmed from the market being starved of credit. “The country is more important than any institution,” Jaitley said at the Global Business Summit (GBS) in New Delhi on Friday evening. The country’s top politicians and bureaucrats along with the leading lights of Indian…