(Tribune) The Gangotri national highway in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand was blocked by rain-triggered landslides leaving a large number of pilgrims stranded.The Thursday night rains led to landslide at around 5 am on Friday at Dharasu bend-Nalupani stretch completely halting traffic movement in Gangotri national highway that connects Uttarkashi district headquarters to Gangotri. District and Border Roads Organisation authorities are working on a war footing to remove the debris and clear the road. It was expected that traffic movement will be restored by late night.Further, authorities removed debris from Yamunotri highway that was blocked at Ojri due to landslides. However,…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(DJ) आज ओडिशा के पुरी और गुजरात के अहमदाबाद में भगवान जगन्नाथ की रथयात्रा निकाली जा रही है। रथयात्रा को लेकर मंदिर और पुलिस की ओर से कड़े सुरक्षा इंतजाम किए गए हैं। भारी संख्या में सुरक्षाबल के जवानों की भी तैनाती हो रखी है। बता दें कि गुजरात के मुख्यमंत्री विजय रुपाणी ने रथ को खींच कर इस रथयात्रा की शुरुआत की। – अहमदाबाद में रथयात्रा भगवान जगन्नाथ के मुख्य मंदिर से सरसपुर के रणछोड़दास मंदिर तक जाएगी।भगवान जगन्नाथ, बलभद्र और सुभद्रा के रथ यहां करीब दो घंटे रुकेंगे। सरसपुर के रणछोड़दास मंदिर को भगवान जगन्नाथ का ननिहाल कहा…
(FE) To mark its 25th anniversary of listing as well as to increase the liquidity of its shares, Infosys on Friday announced a bonus issue in the ratio of 1:1 along with its April-June quarter earnings. “The board of directors has considered, approved and recommended a bonus issue of one equity share for every equity share held and a stock dividend of one American depositary share for every ADS held, as on a record date to be determined,” the company said. The bonus shares once allotted shall rank pari-passu in all respects and carry the same rights as the existing…
(Tribune) While reviewing the development works for Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts covering five Assembly segments, Chief Minister TS Rawat on Friday gave a go-ahead for revival of a hot spring in Kedarnath and expansion of a helipad in Gairsain. But his announcements left the opposition Congress dissatisfied.“A go-ahead has been given for the expansion helipad in Gairasin -Bhararisain so that ample space was available for landing of four helicopters,” said Madan Kaushik, Uttarakhand government spokesperson and Minister for Department of Urban Development.He said that in order to revive the hot spring in Kedarnath, the Chief Minister has also asked the…
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(TH) NTPC has signed a term loan agreement for Rs 1,500 crore with HDFC Bank. An NTPC statement said, “The loan facility is extended at an interest rate linked to 3-months MCLR of the bank. This loan has a door to door tenure of 15 years and will be utilised to part finance the capital expenditure of NTPC.”
(LiveMint) India’s fuel demand rose 8.7% in June compared with the same month last year. Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 17.99 million tonnes, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed. Sales of gasoline, or petrol, were 14.9% higher from a year earlier at 2.38 million tonnes. Sales of bitumen, used for making roads, were 28.6% up, while fuel oil use edged lower 2.7% in June.
(TH) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has pointed to the fiscal stress that States are facing due to several factors including farm loan waivers, and said higher borrowing by them could crowd out private investment. In a report ‘State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2017-18 and 2018-19,’ the central bank noted that States’ consolidated gross fiscal deficit (GFD) overshot the budget estimates in 2017-18 due to shortfalls in own tax revenues and higher revenue expenditure.“In recent years, signs of pressures on the fiscal position of States have re-emerged,” the RBI said. While States budgeted a gross fiscal deficit…
(MC) Singapore-headquartered financial services giant DBS will begin commercial banking operations in India in October this year. “We are looking to start the operations in October,” DBS Group CEO Piyush Gupta told .DBS Bank India (DBS India), part of Asia’s leading financial services group DBS Group Holdings, received in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in September last year to convert its existing India franchise to a locally incorporated wholly-owned subsidiary (WOS) in India. DBS Bank India will be the latest entrant in India’s rapidly evolving banking space that is seeing many legacy financial institutions struggling with disruptions caused…
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