(PTI) The Government is actively considering using Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a transportation fuel, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said. LNG is being imported under open general license on terms and conditions mutually agreed upon between buyers and sellers and it is being traded in the country on market-based mechanism. During Question Hour, Pradhan told the Lok Sabha that the government is actively considering using LNG as a transportation fuel. It is a new, cost-effective and clean proposal, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister said. To a query, he said that at present, there is no pipeline in the country to transport LNG in liquid…
Author: Aruna Sharma
As already four years have passed since the CSR spending was made mandatory, the government has now decided to go to next level for implementation of the Corporate Social Responsibility rule in true spirit. The government is seriously mulling to ask those companies which have defaulted in spending the prescribed 2% of their profits on CSR during the three previous years to deposit the unspent amount in various Central government funds designated to benefit society, like Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF), Swachh Bharat Kosh, Clean Ganga Fund etc. The MCA has initiated a process for compiling a database of…
(DC) In a fresh offensive, the Congress on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman of “lying” in Parliament on the Rafale deal, saying there was no secrecy clause in the 2008 Indo-French pact that binds the government from revealing price details of the fighter aircraft. The Congress is likely to raise the heat on the government on the issue and may move a privilege motion against PM Modi and Sitharaman for “misleading” the Lok Sabha. Days after Congress President Rahul Gandhi forcefully attacked the government in Parliament on the Rafale deal, the party fielded three…
(CNBC) he National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is gearing up to execute highway projects worth Rs 2.25 lakh crore and of 15,000 km in length. The NHAI will double down on these projects because the requisite clearances are in place allowing, the report said citing an unnamed senior official. Ahead of the next year general elections, the authorities will primarily focus on executing the existing projects, said the report. However, it added that the NHAI will not shy away from tendering new contracts. Last financial year, the NHAI had awarded 150 projects of 7,400 km, worth Rs 1.2 lakh crore.
Importantly, FY17 was the third year since CSR spending was made compulsory and the government also seemed to be a little lenient towards implementation of the prescribed limit of spending during the first two years but now things seem to be moving towards a more disciplined regime. First and foremost, huge efforts have made to compile a comprehensive CSR database of all companies registered in India so that companies which are defaulting in terms of CSR spending come under the government radar. There is no denying the fact that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) is doing commendable work in…
(ET) BJP president Amit Shah is said to have told party’s Maharashtra functionaries that they should be prepared for the possibility of contesting the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections without any alliance. Shah was speaking to BJP leaders at a closed-door meeting in Mumbai . Shah told state’s BJP leaders that the party should begin work on all 48 Lok Sabha seats and 288 legislative Assembly seats in Maharashtra, said sources in the BJP. They said Shah told the leaders that party workers should work hard to build networks in all constituencies in such a manner that even if the Shiv Sena (BJP’s current…
(Tribune) Heavy rain threw normal life out of gear in several parts of the state, triggering landslides, uprooting trees and disrupting power supply.About six roads in the interior areas of Sirmaur were blocked due to landslides and a car was washed away on the Dadahu-Koti-Deman road. Hundreds of vehicles and HRTC buses remained stuck.Heavy downpour in Renuka, which recorded 132-mm rain, caused landslides.Himachal Road Transport Corporation officials said over 12 roads were blocked, but some had been opened.Power supply was disrupted in the Sarahan area and could not be restored till evening. Tikker, Dharyar and Panva also witnessed power shutdown.A…
(LiveMint) With Assam scheduled to issue the second draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), on 30 July, Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday set out to assuage the panic that had begun to grip the state. In January, Assam released the first draft of the NRC containing 19 million names out of the state’s 32.9 million population, with panic and anxiety gripping those whose names were not part of the list. “NRC is being updated in Assam in accordance with the Assam Accord signed on 15 August, 1985. The entire process is being carried out as per directions…
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(ET) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a state visit to three African countries, namely Rwanda, Uganda and South Africa, over five days, starting today. The Prime Minister will first arrive at Rwanda, marking the first ever visit by an Indian Prime Minister, a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. Thereafter, Prime Minister Modi will proceed to Uganda, where he will undertake engagements from July 24 to 25.The visit will mark the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the country in over 20 years. Finally, Prime Minister Modi will pay a visit to South Africa from July…