(PTI) Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah will launch the second phase of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh’s ‘vikas yatra’ tomorrow, the party said in a statement. During the ‘yatra’, BJP aims to highlight all the successes of the government in the state. Further, former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be commemorated during the yatra, which has been named ‘Atal Vikas Yatra’. A number of programmes have been planned during Shah’s day-long tour of the poll-bound state. He will visit a temple, launch a single number emergency service – 112 – and meet beneficiaries of different government schemes, the statement read.
Author: Aruna Sharma
(ET) :Power supply to North India including Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal is vulnerable to disruptions as fuel supply to 4,200 mw of generation capacity that feeds these states has fallen sharply heightening the risk of a shutdown from events like heavy rain. Coal India’s supply has fallen because the mine supplying coal to NTPC’s large plants in the east has almost run out of pit head stock, while land acquisition problems have stymied expansion. Coal India’s supply from Rajmahal mines in Jharkhand has fallen to 40,000 tonnes a day from about 55,000 tonnes. On a rainy…
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(PTI) A portion of the arterial Majerhat bridge in southern Kolkata collapsed Tuesday, trapping several people and crushing many vehicles, police said. State minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said she has heard about the death of five persons in the incident but it was yet to be confirmed. Another minister Firhad Hakim said six persons were taken to hospital. As crowds gathered at the spot in congested Alipore locality, where mangled cars were buried under the debris of the bridge, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the first priority is to rescue the injured and those who are trapped. The area has several under-construction buildings nearby. An…
Minister for Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu today launched Coffee Connect – India coffee field force app and Coffee KrishiTharanga – digital mobile extension services for coffee stakeholders at a function here today. The mobile app Coffee Connect has been developed to ease the work of field functionaries and to improve the work efficiency. This application provides solution by harnessing the power of mobility comprising the latest technology in easing the whole process of the field activities like digitization of Coffee Growers & Estates with Geo Tagging, collecting the Plantation details. It will also help in transparency…
(PTI) Shell Companies in India Chairman Nitin Prasad said Monday the company plans to open 1,200 retail stations across India in the next ten years. Terming it as one of the “most largest expansions” ever planned by Shell, he said “each one of those stations can easily accommodate about 100 workers. Simply put, one lakh jobs will get created…” These retail stations, in turn, will trigger several other jobs in terms of infrastructure building to supply those stations supply those stations with fuel and retail products, he said. “The infrastructure creation for supplying fuels and lubricant products to these retail stations could…
(DJ) रेल मंत्री पीयूष गोयल मंगलवार को लखनऊ में होंगे। वह सुबह मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ से मुलाकात करेंगे। दोपहर बाद वह गोमतीनगर स्टेशन आएंगे। यहां वह गोमतीनगर को विश्वस्तरीय बनाने की 1800 करोड़ रुपये की योजना की समीक्षा करेंगे। रेलमंत्री मंगलवार सुबह 6:35 बजे नई दिल्ली एयरपोर्ट से लखनऊ के लिए विमान से रवाना होंगे। लखनऊ एयरपोर्ट पर सुबह 7:45 बजे पहुंचने के बाद वह मुख्यमंत्री आवास जाएंगे। यहां सुबह 9:30 से 10:30 बजे तक वह मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ के साथ प्रदेश में रेलवे की योजनाओं पर चर्चा करेंगे। इस मौके पर उत्तर रेलवे, उत्तर मध्य रेलवे और पूर्वोत्तर रेलवे…
(DNA) The last few years have seen a fall in the number of infrastructure companies participating in National Highways Authority of India’s (NHAI) bids and the top ten companies in the fray are bagging more contracts value-wise as compared to earlier. While firms like Dilip Buildcon, Sadbhav Engineering and PNC Infratech have been increasing their pie of NHAI contracts, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), J P Associates and Gayatri Projects are being selective about the financial models they opt for. “Between 2003-2013, over 50 active players were in the fray. The top ten players had garnered about half orders value-wise. Whereas,…
(LiveMint) India is allowing state refiners to import Iranian oil with Tehran arranging tankers and insurance after firms including the country’s top shipper Shipping Corp of India (SCI) halted voyages to Iran due to US sanctions, sources said. New Delhi’s attempt to keep Iranian oil flowing mirrors a step by China, where buyers are shifting nearly all their Iranian oil imports to vessels owned by National Iranian Tanker Co (NITC). The moves by the two top buyers of Iranian crude indicate that the Islamic Republic may not be fully cut off from global oil markets from November, when US sanctions against…
(DJ) नीति आयोग के वाइस चेयरमैन राजीव कुमार ने आरबीआई के पूर्व गवर्नर रघुराम राजन पर गंभीर आरोप लगाया है। उन्होंने कहा कि आर्थिक सुस्ती के लिए राजन की नीतियां जिम्मेदार थीं नोटबंदी नहीं। राजीव कुमार ने कहा कि राजन की नीतियों के कारण उद्योगों की हालत ऐसी हो गई कि वो बैंकों से कर्ज नहीं ले पा रहे थे, जिसने बैडलोन की मात्रा को बढ़ा दिया। उन्होंने आगे कहा कि नॉन पर्फार्मिंग एसेट्स (एनपीए) पर राजन की जो नीतियां थीं वो ही अर्थव्यवस्था को सुस्ती की तरफ ले गईं, न कि सरकार की ओर से लिया गया नोटबंदी का फैसला…