(PTI) Infrastructure lender IFCI has recovered Rs 280.30 crore and has been allotted over 5.79 lakh equity shares of debt-ridden Bhushan Steel (BSL), which has been acquired by Tata Steel, under the insolvency process. “IFCI as one of the financial creditors to BSL had filed its claim with the resolution professional which was duly accepted. Under the resolution plan (RP) envisaging payment of Rs 35,200 crore to all the financial creditors, IFCI has since received its share of Rs 280.30 crore,” IFCI said in a BSE filing. Further, as part of the RP, IFCI said it has also been allotted…
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(TOI) With petrol and diesel rates skyrocketing on a daily basis, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday advocated bringing fuel under the GST to curb the price hike. “Petrol and diesel should have been brought under the Goods and Services Tax. I asked officials during a presentation if we bring fuel prices under GST will it benefit the states or not. “They said ‘yes’, they will benefit,” Gadkari said at a news conclave here on the four years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. He said, however, the states were wary of losing revenue on account of taxes they…
(PTI) BJP president Amit Shah today said the Modi government’s welfare schemes in its four years have benefitted 22 crore poor families and set an example of how a pro-people dispensation is run. In his brief address to the media on the fourth anniversary of the BJP-led NDA government, Shah claimed that the current dispensation has taken the country’s self-pride to the highest level. The party on the occasion also unveiled a new slogan ‘Saaf Niyat, Sahi Vikas’ (clean intentions, right development) as it launches a nation-wide drive to highlight the government’s works. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had led the BJP to its maiden…
(AU) अंतरराष्ट्रीय बाजार में कच्चे तेल की कीमतें पिछले तीन दिन से लगातार घट रही हैं। ऐसे में उम्मीद की जा सकती है कि शनिवार को भारतीय तेल कंपनियां पेट्रोल और डीजल के दाम में मामूली कमी करें। एक सप्ताह में कच्चे तेल की कीमतों में 2.34 डॉलर प्रति बैरल की गिरावट दर्ज की गई है। शुक्रवार को कच्चे तेल की अंतरराष्ट्रीय कीमत 76.96 डॉलर प्रति बैरल रही, जबकि बृहस्पतिवार को इसकी कीमत 78.79 डॉलर थी। एक ही दिन में कच्चे तेल की कीमतों में 1.83 डॉलर प्रति बैरल की गिरावट आई है। शुक्रवार को एक डॉलर की कीमत 67.87…
(PTI) State-run Power Grid Corporation today said it will complete by the first week of next month the restoration work of transmission lines damaged in windstorms. “Work for restoration of balance 12 transmission lines is in full swing with mobilisation of 39 gangs consisting of 1,000+ persons and is expected to be restored by the first week of June 2018,” PowerGrid said in a statement. PowerGrid has restored 54 transmission lines on war footing within 24 to 30 hours that had been damaged in the severe windstorms of speed up to 130 km/hr that hit several parts of India this…
(TNIE) With petrol and diesel rates rising daily, the Central government on Friday advocated bringing transport fuel under the GST to curb the price hike. While Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said that bringing petrol and diesel under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will benefit the states, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal said if the GST Council decides to go for it, the Centre will welcome the move. “Petrol and diesel should have been brought under the GST. I asked officials during a presentation if we bring fuel prices under GST will it benefit the states or not. They…
(PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel in an open jeep on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway on Sunday and also inaugurate India’s first smart and green highway, the Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE), built at a cost of Rs 11,000 crore, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said today. The Prime Minister’s road show will commence from the Nizamuddin Bridge, the start of the about 9 km first leg of the Delhi-Meerut Expressway, and after a 6-km travel on the stretch, he is scheduled to fly to Baghpat for dedicating the EPE to the nation. “The Prime Minister will travel in an open jeep on Delhi Meerut Expressway…
(ET) As part of the government’s plans to connect all northeastern states with gas pipelines, there is to be a 721 kilometre pipeline running from Guwahati to Barauni in Bihar by 2021. S Rath, a member of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), who was in Guwahati on Thursday, said, “Guwahati will be connected to national gas grid by a pipeline. The Haldia-Paradip- Barauni pipeline will connect Guwahati. This pipeline, with a cost of Rs 3,000 crore, is likely to be by 2021. The project will be executed by GAIL.” Rath further elaborated that there is a plan to…
(DJ) केंद्र की सत्ता में मोदी सरकार के चार साल शुक्रवार को पूरे हो रहे हैं और अगले दिन पांचवें साल की शुरुआत होगी तो झारखंड में पांच बड़ी योजनाएं धरातल पर उतर रही होंगी। शिलान्यास कार्यक्रम के साथ ही काम शुरू करने की तैयारी पहले से ही हो चुकी है। सिंदरी खाद कारखाने का पुनरुद्धार, पतरातू में 6400 मेगावाट सुपर थर्मल पावर प्लांट, देवघर में एम्स की स्थापना, देवघर में ही एयरपोर्ट का निर्माण और विकास एवं रांची में गैस पाइपलाइन परियोजना वो पांच बड़ी परियोजनाएं हैं जो शिलान्यास के साथ ही तेजी से शुरू होंगी। कुछ योजनाएं तो…
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