(AU) मेघालय की दो विधानसभा सीटों के लिए गुरुवार को होने वाले मतदान में मुख्यमंत्री कोनराड संगमा की किस्मत का फैसला होगा। फिलहाल तूरा सीट से सांसद संगमा सत्तारूढ़ नेशनल पीपुल्स पार्टी (एनपीपी) के टिकट पर पश्चिम गारो पर्वतीय जिले के दक्षिण तूरा सीट से मैदान में हैं। पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री पी. ए. संगमा के पुत्र कोनराड ने भाजपा एवं क्षेत्रीय दलों की सहायता से सरकार का गठन कर पिछले छह मार्च को मुख्यमंत्री पद की शपथ ली थी। दक्षिण पश्चिम खासी पर्वतीय जिले की रानीकोट विधानसभा सीट पर एनपीपी के मार्टिन एम. डांगो का मुकाबला यूडीपी के पियूष मारविन, पीडीएफ अध्यक्ष…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(AU) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी गुरुवार को एक दिवसीय दौरे पर गुजरात जाएंगे जहां वह गुजरात फारेंसिक साइंस यूनीवर्सिटी के दीक्षांत समारोह सहित चार कार्यक्रमों में हिस्सा लेंगे। एक आधिकारी विज्ञप्ति में यह जानकारी दी गई। विज्ञप्ति में कहा गया है कि मोदी वलसाड़ शहर के निकट जुजवा गांव में एक जनसभा के दौरान प्रधानमंत्री आवास योजना (ग्रामीण) के लाभार्थियों के सामूहिक ई-गृहप्रवेश कार्यक्रम के साक्षी बनेंगे। यह केंद्र सरकार की सभी को आवास उपलब्ध कराने की योजना है। इसमें कहा गया है कि इस योजना के तहत एक लाख से अधिक मकान तैयार किए गए हैं। इसी स्थान से वह जलापूर्ति…
(PTI) India has sought re-negotiation of the natural gas price it is to source through a proposed USD 10 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline in view of the slump in global energy markets, a top source said. The four nations to the pipeline projects had in 2013 signed a gas sale purchase agreement (GSPA) that benchmarked the price of natural gas that Turkmenistan is to export at 55 per cent of the prevailing crude oil price. This translates into a price of about USD7.5 per million British thermal unit (mmBtu) at current oil prices at the Turkmen border. Added to this…
(ET) State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Ltd, which leads the country’s energy efficiency and conservation drive, has thrown open a challenge for entrepreneurs and startups to develop electric cars that are more efficient in terms of performance and cheaper than what it had sought in its ecars tender last year. As part of a two months-long innovation challenge based on a common streak of energy efficient solutions, Energy Efficiency Services (EESL), along with World Bank and World Resources Institute (WRI), has sought variants of electric cars that can run 200 km or more on a single charge and is priced not…
(PTI) In a relief to FPIs, markets regulator Sebi today extended the deadline by two months till December for providing a list of beneficial owners, and assured them that issues raised will be looked into by an expert panel. The regulator, in April, had asked Category II and III foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) to provide list of their beneficial owner (BO) in a prescribed format within six months. Now, in a circular issued today, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said it has extended the deadline to provide such list to December 31, 2018. The decision comes after Sebi received…
(ET) Talks between India and Iran over the rights to develop a gas field in the Islamic Republic have stalled in the wake of fresh US sanctions, people familiar with the matter said. A consortium of Indian state-owned oil companies, led by Oil & Natural Gas Corp, has been negotiating with Iran for two years for the development rights of Farzad B gas field it discovered in Iran a decade ago. The resurrection of sanctions prompted Indian companies to freeze the matter. Sanctions are a huge project execution risk because it would be hard to obtain finance and rope in oilfield…
(PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 1 will launch long-awaited India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) that will have at least one branch in every district and focus on financial services in rural areas, a senior official said. “The launch of India Post Payments Bank has been rescheduled for September 1. The Prime Minister will launch,” a senior government official told PTI. The launch of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) was recently rescheduled in the wake of seven-day national mourning declared after the demise of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to launch IPPB on August 21.…
Central assistance of Rs.500 crore, as announced by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, and Rs.100 crore, announced by the Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh, for flood affected Kerala has been released to the Government of Kerala today. The National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) met for the sixth time in a row today to review the rescue & relief operations in the state. Cabinet Secretary Shri PK Sinha, chaired the meeting. The Chief Secretary of Kerala participated in the meeting via video conference and informed that the situation is now improving by and large though there are some isolated…
(PTI) Bihar Governor Satya Pal Malik has been transferred to Jammu and Kashmir and he will replace N N Vohra, according to a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique today. Senior BJP leader Lal Ji Tandon has been appointed as the Governor of Bihar replacing Malik, and Satyadev Narayan Arya will be the new Governor of Haryana, it said. Baby Rani Maurya will be the new Governor of Uttarakhand, it said. Kaptan Singh Solanki, the Governor of Haryana, has been transferred to Tripura. Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy has been transferred to Meghalaya, it said. Ganga Prasad, the Governor of Meghalaya, has been transferred to Sikkim, it said.
(LiveMint) Delhi high court has agreed to hear a plea seeking damages from the operator of world’s largest biometric database for alleged failure to adopt adequate security measures that led to data leaks. A two-judge bench headed by Justice S. Ravindra Bhat of Delhi High Court has asked the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is providing digital ID to over a billion Indians based on their biometrics, to submit a written response to the petition filed by a law professor. The body has six weeks to reply and the court will hear the case next on 19 November. The government has…