(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…
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(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…
(ET) The Railways, for the first time, have started utilising the government’s rural job flagship scheme – MGNREGA – to undertake railway work, a senior official said. “The Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) has started works of widening railway embankment in Kishanganj area of Katihar division in Bihar and Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal under the MGNREGA,” NFR’s Chief Public Relations Officer Pranav Jyoti Sharma. He said that if the state governments of the northeastern states and concerned District Magistrates agree, similar works can be undertaken in the region where NFR has railway lines. The NFR serves seven districts in West Bengal and…
(AU) सुप्रीम कोर्ट शुक्रवार को 36 राफेल लड़ाकू विमानों की खरीद को लेकर फ्रांस के साथ हुए सौदे की जांच अदालत की निगरानी में कराने की मांग वाली याचिकाओं पर अपना फैसला सुनाएगा। राफेल सौदे को लेकर विपक्षी दलों ने मोदी सरकार के खिलाफ पिछले कई महीनों से मोर्चा खोल रखा है। इस लिहाज से सुप्रीम कोर्ट का यह फैसला काफी अहम साबित होगा। चीफ जस्टिस रंजन गोगोई, जस्टिस संजय किशन कौल और जस्टिस केएम जोसफ की पीठ शुक्रवार को राफेल सौदे पर अपना फैसला सुनाएगी। पीठ अगर अदालत की निगरानी में इस सौदे की जांच कराने का आदेश देती है…
(BS) Worried over delay in allotment of land to Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for putting up new plants, Union minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan has written to the Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to expedite the matter. It may be noted that IOCL is in the process of finalising Rs 400 billion of investments in new projects in Odisha such as PC (polypropylene complex)/PTA (purified terephthalic acid) project, petcoke gasification based projects and refinery capacity expansion project from 15 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) to 25 mtpa at Paradip. Besides, IOCL is also participating in the textile park proposed at Bhadrak. The oil marketing…
(AU) कांग्रेस के वरिष्ठ नेता कमलनाथ मध्य प्रदेश के नए मुख्यमंत्री होंगे। कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष राहुल गांधी की मुहर के बाद बृहस्पतिवार देर रात भोपाल में हुई विधायक दल की बैठक में उन्हें नेता चुना गया। बैठक में सीएम पद के दूसरे दावेदार ज्योतिरादित्य सिंधिया भी मौजूद थे। इससे पहले राहुल के घर दिनभर चली मैराथन बैठक में कमलनाथ के नाम पर सहमति बनी थी। हालांकि राजस्थान और छत्तीसगढ़ में सीएम पद के दावेदारों के अड़ने की वजह से नामों का एलान नहीं हो सका। इन दोनों राज्यों के सीएम के नाम की घोषणा शुक्रवार को दोनों राज्यों के वरिष्ठ नेताओं से…
(LiveMint) Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday admitted there were two-three areas of differences with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), but questioned how a mere discussion on its functioning could be considered “destruction” of an institution. Under attack politically for creating circumstances that led to the resignation of Urjit Patel as the RBI governor, Jaitley listed out a string of actions initiated by past governments, including Congress Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, asking RBI governors to resign. Speaking at the Times Networks India Economic Conclave, Jaitley said differences with the RBI included credit flow in the economy…
(ET) The Election Commission of India is preparing to pitch for the mandatory, legally backed, linking of voter IDs with the Aadhaar number.The commission will propose amendments to the Representation of the People Act, 1951, that will require citizens to link their Electoral Photo ID Card (EPIC) with the 12-digit Aadhaar, while ensuring privacy protection, said people with knowledge of the matter. The move is aimed at improving the accuracy of the electoral rolls, they said, adding that the commission will be sending its suggestion to the law ministry shortly. This marks a shift in the position of the commission,…
(MC) After weeks of deliberation, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) allowed mutual funds to segregate their holdings in stressed securities. Known as side-pocketing in mutual fund (MF) parlance, this refers to a practice where fund houses isolate risky assets from the rest of their holdings and cap redemption. Once segregated, a set of units will contain investments made in the troubled paper, while the other set of units will contain all other investments and cash holdings. This will ensure that if a paper gets downgraded to ‘default’ grade and the fund doesn’t receive the money from its underlying…