(ET) The administered prices of subsidised household fuels has risen sharply, with kerosene up 65% and cooking gas up 17% in the past two years, but the subsidy on both products, which the government tried to cut with regular price hikes, has also risen sharply because of soaring oil prices. Kerosene, a cooking and lighting fuel which the rural poor purchase from the public distribution system, rose to Rs 25.03 a litre on June 1 in Mumbai from Rs 15.02 a litre on July 1, 2016 as state oil firms are increasing the price by 25 paise every fortnight. However,…
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The Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC) on Monday set August 31 as the deadline for the submission of Rs 930-crore Kol Dam lift drinking water and sewerage project to World Bank.“The project will be readied within five years and is expected to meet the water demand of the city till 2050,” said SMC engineers.Sources said World Bank had asked the state government to formulate a policy on how the SMC would supply 24×7 water supply to the city and its peripheries.“We are finalising the water policy and the government has set August 31 as the deadline for submitting it,” Dharmender Gill,…
(Tribune) Chief Minister TS Rawat on Saturday began stocktaking exercise of the development works in constituencies falling under Dehradun district.The Chief Minister was forced to redraft the programme, as earlier he had announced that monitoring of development works would be carried in 57 constituencies, which are with the BJP MLAs. But after raising objections by the Opposition Congress, the programme was redesigned with focus on districts.PCC chief Pritam Singh said he was not invited for the exercise, though, he is MLA from Chakrata, that falls under Dehradun district.During the exercise, the Chief Minister called upon the officials concerned to complete…
(LiveMint) Union minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said trains in India still ran behind schedule because previous governments committed resources for political gains instead of investing them to improve the efficiency of the railways. Addressing the media, the minister for railways said governments before 2014 did not invest in “upgrading infrastructure”. They kept making “political announcements” without providing capital for the promised projects, according to Goyal, who also holds charge of various other ministries including finance and coal. As a result, projects did not get implemented on time, and the “entire network got overloaded”. “Sadly, some sections are running at 150%…
(LiveMint) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will soon form the government in Tamil Nadu, party president Amit Shah said at a meeting of party workers in Chennai on Monday attended by BJP members from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Shah’s claim comes against the backdrop of the party having no representation in the assembly and only one MP from the state. The BJP is trying to strengthen itself in South India and also forge alliances with regional parties ahead of the 2019 general elections. “The discussions regarding forging alliance with parties in the state will happen around…
(AU) उत्तर प्रदेश की योगी आदित्यनाथ सरकार के मंत्रिमंडल का विस्तार इस महीने नहीं होगा। भाजपा अध्यक्ष अमित शाह के व्यस्त कार्यक्रम और प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के जुलाई माह में सूबे की ताबड़तोड़ यात्रा के कारण मंत्रिमंडल विस्तार पर अंतिम विचार विमर्श नहीं हो पाया है। शाह अब अगस्त में मंत्रिमंडल विस्तार पर माथापच्ची करेंगे। इस क्रम में वह मुख्यमंत्री, संगठन के वरिष्ठ पदाधिकारियों और सहयोगी दलों के साथ संवाद करेंगे। दरअसल, पार्टी नेतृत्व की योजना कर्नाटक विधानसभा चुनाव के तत्काल बाद मंत्रिमंडल विस्तार को हरी झंडी देने की थी लेकिन कैराना और नूरपुर उपचुनाव में मिली हार के बाद…
(AU) खरीफ फसलों के न्यूनतम समर्थन मूल्य के ऐलान के बाद अब सरकार इसे भुनाने में जुट गई है। सरकार ने एमएसपी समेत कृषि कल्याणकारी योजनाओं को जमीनी स्तर पर गांवों और किसानों तक पहुंचाने के लिए मल्टीमीडिया अभियान चलाने की भी योजना बनाई है। साथ ही, प्रधानमंत्री मोदी ने भी इसके प्रचार का जिम्मा संभालते हुए खास किसान रैलियों को संबोधित करने की योजना बनाई है। जिसकी शुरूआत 11 जुलाई को पंजाब के मुक्तसर में कृषि कल्याण रैली से होगी। मोदी इन रैलियों में रबी फसलों पर भी एमएसपी का ऐलान कर सकते हैं। सरकार ने इसके लिए एक…
(LiveMint) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have inaugurated Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd’s mobile phone factory in Noida—the largest in the world. The facility is spread over 35 acres in Noida’s Sector 81. Said to be built at a cost of ₹ 4,500 crore, the Samsung’s Noida plant can produce 12 crore mobile phones every year, ranging from low-end smartphones to its flagship Samsung Galaxy S9, and will create 15,000 local jobs. The factory will also help Samsung to compete with rivals such as China’s Xiaomi, which became India’s biggest smartphone brand by shipments earlier this year.Under intense competition from…
(FE) Construction of highways inched up to touch 26 km per day during the April-June period of the current year from 25 km in the year-ago period. The improved rate, however, is a far cry from road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari’s target of building these roads at a scorching pace of 45 km per day for the current fiscal. Among them, all agencies responsible for highway construction built 2,345 km of roads in the first three months of the current financial year, compared with 2,260 km in the corresponding period last year, sources in the Ministry of Road…
(PTI) The Competition Commission has dismissed a complaint alleging unfair business practices against oil marketing companies — IOCL, BPCL and HPCL — with regard to terms and conditions in the tenders for transportation of liquified petroleum gas through tank trucks. In an order, the fair trade regulator said “no case of contravention under Section 3 or Section 4 of the (Competition) Act” is made out against Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL). While Section 3 pertains to anti-competitive agreements, Section 4 relates to abuse of dominant market position. The complainants, whose…