(PTI) State-run power producer NTPC said it has acquired the 720 MW Barauni Thermal Power Station from Bihar State Power Generation Company Ltd. The coal-based power station, which has two units of 110 MW each and two units of 250 MW each under construction, is located in Begusarai district of Bihar. “The units of the power station will be progressively put under commercial operation,” NTPC Ltd said in a regulatory filing.
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(Times Now) Petrol, diesel prices rose on Monday tracking the recent fall in the value of rupee against the US dollar. While petrol became costlier by 19-20 paise per litre, diesel prices rose by 9-10 paise per litre across major cities of the country, according to data available on Indian Oil Corporation website. After Monday’s price revision, unbranded petrol, in the national capital Delhi is priced at Rs 70.53, up 19 paise compared to Sunday’s price of Rs 70.34 and diesel is retailing at Rs 64.47, 9 paise. In the country’s business capital Mumbai, petrol is sold at 19 paise higher at Rs…
(LiveMint) The Rahul Gandhi-led Congress named the party’s Chhattisgarh unit head Bhupesh Baghel as the next chief minister of the state. With this, the Congress has completed the process of selecting chief ministers for all three states it won last week, including Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The oath-taking ceremony in three states will take place on today. Interestingly, Sunday also marked Gandhi’s first anniversary as Congress president. The recent victories in the three north Indian states were a major boost for the party’s prospects as it prepares for the 2019 general elections. Gandhi tweeted on Sunday evening on the occasion and said he…
(LiveMint) Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday attempted to strike a fine balance between the old guard and young blood in Rajasthan, picking veteran Ashok Gehlot as the next chief minister and pushing young leader Sachin Pilot as his deputy. The move is significant as Gandhi has made a strong bid to accommodate the two factions in the new government. Gehlot is a veteran politician and a two-time chief minister, while Pilot has been credited with improving the party’s organizational strength at the ground level in the last four years. “Congress president Rahul Gandhi has decided to appoint Ashok Gehlot as the next chief…
(ET) The Congress leadership is expected to announce the name of the new Chhattisgarh chief minister on Saturday, after four aspirants who met Congress president Rahul Gandhi for consultations on Friday afternoon left the final decision to him. Ambikapur MLA Anurag Singh Deo,popularly known as TS Baba from the erstwhile royal family of Sarguja, and PCC president Bhupesh Baghel, elected from Patan and OBC leader, are front runners. Apart from them, those who attended Gandhi’s Friday afternoon deliberations included the other two aspirants, Charan Das Mahant and Tamradhwaj Sahu, central observer Mallikarjun Kharge and state incharge PL Punia. A sizeable section…
(ANI) The false political campaign of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government against Ujjwala Yojana shows their fear about the rising popularity of the scheme among the poor families in the state, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan. “The false political campaign of BJD/Government of Odisha against Ujjwala Scheme shows their fear about the rising popularity of Ujjwala Scheme among the poor families in the State. I will request them to cooperate to make Odisha 100% smoke-free state and not to do politics over a sacred scheme. Let’s not forget that Odisha had 19 lakh LPG connections till May 2014 which has increased to 72.5 lakhs including 41…
(PTI) There is no occasion to doubt the decision-making process in the procurement of 36 Rafale jets from France, the Supreme Court said on Friday and dismissed all the petitions seeking an investigation into alleged irregularities in the Rs 58,000 crore deal. There was no substantial evidence of commercial favouritism to any private entity, the bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said on the issue of an offset partner in its ruling on a batch of petitions. While one lot sought a court-monitored investigation into the deal, another asked for a direction to the CBI to register an FIR for…
(ET) The BJP has decided to shed all complacency and take on its political opponent head-on in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi set to address over two dozen rallies covering 122 seats the party has never won in states like Kerala, West Bengal, Odisha, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Assam and the other northeast states. Party chief Amit Shah held a meeting with the BJP’s central office-bearers, state unit presidents and general secretaries (organisation) of all the state units at the party headquarters here on Thursday. In a message to the leaders, he said…
(FE) With a new governor at the helm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the government, through its nominees, is unlikely to insist on immediate changes in the way the RBI is being governed at the central bank board’s meeting on Friday. Instead, it will likely seek a broad discussion on the need to tweak the governance structure to make it more consultative, an official source told. While there is no proposal yet to refer the RBI’s governance matter to an experts’ committee, the government is not averse to the idea of such a panel (along the lines of…
(AU) केंद्र सरकार जल्द ही स्वर्गीय पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री अटल बिहारी के नाम पर एक सिक्का जारी करेगी। यह सिक्का 100 रुपए का होगा। इस सिक्के का वजन 35 ग्राम होगा। सरकार इस सिक्के को उनके जन्मदिवस पर जारी कर सकती है। सरकार की तरफ से जारी एक नोटिफिकेशन के मुताबिक सिक्के पर प्रधानमंत्री अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी का फोटो होगा और उनका नाम देवनागरी लिपी में लिखा होगा। फोटो के नीचे उनकी जन्म तिथि 1928 से लेकर मृत्यु वर्ष 2018 भी अंकित होगी। नोटिफिकेशन के मुताबिक सिक्के के उलटे हिस्से पर अशोक स्तंभ होगा और मध्य में देवनागरी लिपी में सत्यमेव जयते लिखा…