(Hindustan) राज्य सरकार शहरों में अवैध निर्माण को नियमत: वैध करने के लिए शमन योजना 2018 लाने जा रही है। यह योजना मात्र छह महीने के लिए होगी और नियमत: जो भी अवैध निर्माण वैध होने की श्रेणी में आएंगे, उसे शुल्क लेकर वैध किया जाएगा। मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्य नाथ की अध्यक्षता में मंगलवार को होने वाली कैबिनेट की बैठक में करीब आठ प्रस्तावों को मंजूरी के लिए रखा जा सकता है। प्रदेश के शहरी क्षेत्रों में अवैध निर्माण होने की वजह से प्राधिकरणों को परेशानियों का सामना करना पड़ रहा है। इसलिए मुकदमों का बोझ कम करने व अवैध…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(Hindustan) समाजवादी पार्टी के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष अखिलेश यादव ने कहा है कि जनता का भाजपा से मोहभंग हो रहा है। बदलाव के लिए साल 2019 और साल 2022 में दो बड़े अवसर मिलेंगे। जनता तैयार रहे। कार्यकर्ता भी इस बात का ध्यान रखें कि यह मौका हाथ से निकल न जाए। अखिलेश ने सोमवार को पार्टी मुख्यालय में कार्यकर्ताओं से यह बात कही। उन्होंने कहा कि राज्यपाल बार-बार कानून-व्यवस्था में सुधार की बात कह रहे हैं लेकिन प्रदेश सरकार इसे गंभीरता से नहीं ले रही है। अखिलेश ने कहा कि भाजपा ने इतना झूठ बोला है कि अब उनका कोई…
(LiveMint) Russia’s largest oil company Rosneft filed an 89 billion rouble ($1.41 billion) lawsuit on Monday against participants of the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project operated by ExxonMobil subsidiary Exxon Neftegaz Ltd. The suit, received by an arbitration court in the Sakhalin region in Russia’s Far East, seeks to recover funds gained by parties between 10 July 2015, and 31 May 2018, through “unjust enrichment and interest gained by using other people’s money”, according to paperwork issued by the court. The lawsuit has been filed against five entities, claiming 10 billion roubles from Sakhalinmorneftegaz, 7.5 billion from RN-Astra, 26.7 billion from…
(DJ) मॉब लिंचिंग की बढ़ती घटनाओं पर कारगर नियंत्रण और इसके दोषियों को कड़ी सजा सुनिश्चित करने का उपाय सुझाने के लिए सरकार ने दो उच्च स्तरीय समिति का गठन किया है। केंद्रीय गृह सचिव की अध्यक्षता में गठित कमेटी जहां चार हफ्तों में अपने सुझाव देगी, वहीं गृहमंत्री राजनाथ सिंह अध्यक्षता में गठित मंत्रिमंडलीय कमेटी इन सुझावों पर विचार कर उन्हें अमल लाने का रास्ता बताएगी। दरअसल पिछले दिनों सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने मॉब लिंचिंग के खिलाफ सख्त रूख अख्तियार करते हुए सरकार को कड़े कानून बनाने का आदेश दिया था। इसके साथ ही कई दिशा-निर्देश भी जारी किये थे।…
(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…
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…