(MP) GAIL (India) Limited, the largest state-owned natural gas processing and distribution company, is all set to make a fresh investment of Rs 5,000 crore for the construction of pipelines to supply gas and CNG in Bengal in the next 5-6 years. The project is being executed as a part of Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga Pipeline Project. A 555 km long pipeline will pass through eight districts in the state, such as Purulia, Bankura, Burdwan, Nadia, Hooghly, Howrah, East Midnapore and North 24-Parganas. S Bairagi, CGM (Marketing), GAIL, was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an interactive session on…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(AU) सुप्रीम कोर्ट की पांच सदस्यीय संविधान पीठ बृहस्पतिवार को अयोध्या में 2.77 एकड़ भूमि के विवाद की सुनवाई करेगी। संविधान पीठ बृहस्पतिवार को आगे होने वाली सुनवाई की रूपरेखा तैयार करेगी। अब तक इस मामले से जुड़ी 14 अपीलों की सुनवाई तीन सदस्यीय पीठ कर रही थी, लेकिन चीफ जस्टिस रंजन गोगोई ने इस मामले की सुनवाई के लिए पांच सदस्यीय संविधान पीठ गठित कर दी है। चीफ जस्टिस रंजन गोगोई की अध्यक्षता वाली संविधान पीठ में जस्टिस एसए बोबडे, जस्टिस एनवी रमण, जस्टिस यूयू ललित और जस्टिस डीवाई चंद्रचूड़ को शामिल किया गया है। बृहस्पतिवार को होने वाली…
(ET) India’s three oil marketing companies (OMCs) have invited applications for setting up fuel retail outlets at 23,946 locations in Rajashtan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram. Invitation for applications in these states had missed an earlier expansion round due to state elections. The last date for submission of applications is 12 January. The companies have offered 9,647 retail outlet dealerships in Rajasthan, 7,318 dealerships in Madhya Pradesh, 3,507 in Telangana, 3,347 in Chhattisgarh and 127 in Mizoram. In a bid to cement their market leadership and expand their footprint in other geographical areas of the country, the oil firms had…
Guest Article by Sanjay Gora, AGM, SAIL and Gold Medalist in Journalism. Authored a book “Know yourself for better work life balance.” Co-authored two other books. Views expressed are personal and non specific to any particular organisation. (Views expressed are personal) One often hears about public sector employees that they have an easy going well paid job with nothing much to do. As a public sector wala for more than two decades now, I have heard a lot of comments with underlying tone being the same. So I thought of highlighting few challenges that come with a public sector job.…
(FE) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it has decided to set up a high-level committee on deepening of digital payments with a view to encourage digitisation of payments and enhance financial inclusion through digitisation. The committee will be chaired by former Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) chairman Nandan Nilekani. The other members of the committee are former RBI deputy governor HR Khan, Kishore Sansi, former head of Vijaya Bank, Aruna Sharma, former secretary, ministry of information technology and steel, and Sanjay Jain, chief innovation officer, Center for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE), IIM Ahmedabad. The committee will…
(TH) Commending the Rajahmundry asset of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for installing a water ATM at Antarvedi, Collector Kartikeya Misra on Tuesday said the facility would benefit residents and help deal with drinking water shortage there. Along with local MLA G. Surya Rao and Asset Manager D.M.R. Sekhar, the Collector inaugurated the machine and a drinking water pipeline from Antarvedipalem to Antarvedi via Dantupuntha. Speaking on the occasion, he said each family could get 20 litres of potable water free by using water cards being distributed by the ONGC. “By submitting Aadhaar card details, residents of Antarvedi could procure…
(AU) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी आज आगरा में होंगे। वो यहां साढ़े तीन हजार करोड़ रुपये से अधिक की योजनाओं का लोकार्पण और शिलान्यास करेंगे। इस दौरान मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ व राज्यपाल राम नाईक सहित प्रदेश सरकार के कई मंत्री मौजूद रहेंगे। प्रधानमंत्री मोदी कोठी मीना बाजार मैदान पर 3571 करोड़ रुपये लागत की 12 योजनाओं का लोकार्पण व 7 योजनाओं का शिलान्यास करेंगे। लोकार्पण में 2887 करोड़ की गंगाजल योजना प्रमुख है। इसके बाद कोठी मीना बाजार मैदान में जनसभा संबोधित करेंगे। वहीं, शिलान्यास में स्मार्ट सिटी के तहत 285 करोड़ की एकीकृत कमांड एवं नियंत्रण केंद्र का निर्माण, 200 करोड़…
(AU) सभी धर्मों के सामान्य वर्ग के आर्थिक रूप से कमजोर लोगों को दस फीसदी आरक्षण देने के लिए 124वां संविधान संशोधन विधेयक मंगलवार को लोकसभा में पास हो गया। इसके पक्ष में 323 और विरोध में केवल तीन वोट पड़े। इसके साथ ही लोकसभा अनिश्चितकाल के लिए स्थगित कर दी गई। बुधवार को इसे राज्यसभा में पेश किया जाएगा। लोकसभा में सभी दलों का रुख देखकर भले इसकी राह आसान लगे लेकिन संख्याबल में कमजोर होने के कारण सरकार के लिए ‘असल परीक्षा’ इसे राज्यसभा से पास करवाना ही है। इस विधेयक के तहत सरकारी नौकरियों व शैक्षणिक संस्थानों…
(BS) The merger of two Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) subsidiaries — Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals (MRPL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) — is unlikely to happen in FY19. A source close to the development said, “At this pace, the deal is unlikely to happen in FY19. Neither the MRPL board has taken up the proposal nor a consultant has been appointed in this regard.” With this, it is almost certain the deal is unlikely to happen during the tenure of the current government, he said. The government holds an 88.58 per cent stake in MRPL. Of this, ONGC holds 71.63 per cent, while…
(FE) With general elections just a few months away from now, all political parties have started preparations in a big way. On Sunday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah Party president Amit Shah formed 17 different groups that will hit the ground running. The party president appointed senior leader and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singhas the head of 20-member Sankalp Patra (manifesto) committee. Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Piyush Goyal and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan are the other members of the committee. Arun Jaitley, who holds the Finance portfolio, has been appointed as…