(AU) देश के कम से कम 13 राज्यों और दो केंद्र शासित प्रदेशों में सोमवार को आंधी-तूफान, भारी बारिश और ओलावृष्टि होने की आशंका है। गृह मंत्रालय ने रविवार को इस संबंध में चेतावनी जारी की। भारतीय मौसम विभाग के हवाले से गृह मंत्रालय के एक अधिकारी ने बताया कि जम्मू कश्मीर और हिमाचल प्रदेश के कुछ स्थानों में सोमवार को आंधी-तूफान और ओलावृष्टि के साथ बारिश हो सकती है। वहीं जम्मू कश्मीर, उत्तराखंड, हिमाचल प्रदेश, पंजाब, हरियाणा, चंडीगढ़, दिल्ली और पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश के कुछ स्थानों पर भी गरज-बरज के साथ बारिश हो सकती है और तेज हवाएं चल सकती…
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(FE) The government’s stated plan to provide electricity connections to 3.63 crore households by December this year, if implemented, will raise the power distribution companies’ (discoms) supply cost by an annual Rs 32,200 crore or roughly a quarter. Since the discoms aren’t recovering their full costs from household consumers, the additional supplies under the Saubhagya scheme could add some Rs 3,800 crore to their annual losses, if all the new ones to be electrified have a consumption pattern like that of the average electrified household. Without the subsidies provided by state governments, the extra losses could even be over Rs 7,100…
(ET) Patanjali Ayurved Limited has been ranked as India’s most trusted Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brand in the TRA’s Brand Trust Report 2018. Baba Ramdev took to his Twitter handle to make the announcement as he wrote, “Patanjali is India’s number #1 trusted FMCG Brand accordingly to ‘The Brand Trust Report’, India Study 2018 #BTR2018 – @TRA_Research.”
(ET) LPG (cooking gas) penetration in Odisha has reached to 58.55 per cent, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday. “LPG penetration in Odisha has reached to 58.55 per cent by May 1 this year against 20% in June 2014. The Government of India has set a target of providing gas connections to 80 lakh household by the end of December 2018,” he said at the Pradhan Mantri LPG Panchayat at Mangalajodi in Khurda district organized by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. Pradhan said as of now a total 24.23 lakh connections released under Prime Minister Ujjwala Yojna. Last year, 177…
(ET) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said all crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh given to farmers in Karnataka would be waived when a BJP government comes to power in the state. Election to the 224-member Karnataka assembly is due on May 12. Campaigning for the BJP here, Singh claimed that over 3,800 farmers had committed suicide during the five-year rule of the Congress government in Karnataka. “Our party will waive all crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh given to farmers after coming to power in Karnataka,” he said. Singh said crop loans were given at zero per cent interest…
(DJ) कर्नाटक में चुनावी शोर अब और तेज होता जा रहा है। सत्ता बचाने के लिए जहां कांग्रेस अपनी पूरी ताकत झोंक रही है, तो वहीं भाजपा भी एक और राज्य में कमल खिलाने के लिए बेकरार है। जहां भाजपा की ओर से प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी चुनाव प्रचार की कमान संभाले हुए हैं, तो वहीं कांग्रेस ने अब मैदान में सोनिया गांधी को उतारने का फैसला किया है। अभी तक वे चुनाव प्रचार से दूर थीं, लेकिन अब यूपीए अध्यक्ष सोनिया गांधी ने चुनाव प्रचार से दूर रहने के फैसले को उलट दिया है। सोनिया गांधी अब 8 मई को…
(LiveMint) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will buy government bonds worth up to Rs10,000 crore on 17 May, a move that could bring some relief to the bond market which is reeling under the pressure of rising yields despite a slew of regulatory measures. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions. The purchase of securities will be made under the central bank’s open market operations (OMOs), RBI said on Friday. The decision is based on the “assessment of prevailing liquidity conditions and also of the durable liquidity needs going forward”. Last week, RBI withdrew the clause that forced foreign…
(DJ) कर्नाटक विधानसभा चुनाव को लेकर प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी का धुआंधार प्रचार जारी है। आज पीएम चार रैलियों को संबोधित करेंगे। कर्नाटक के चित्रदुर्ग, रायचूर, जमखंडी और हुबली में पीएम हुंकार भरते नजर आएंगे। इससे पहले शनिवार को भी पीएम ने चार रैलियां की थी। बता दें कि मई की शुरुआत से ही राज्य में पीएम की एक के बाद एक रैलियां हो रही हैं। पीएम की रैली में बढ़ती भीड़ के चलते उनकी रैलियों की संख्या भी बढ़ा दी गई है। भाजपा ऐसा अनुमान लगा रही है कि पीएम की रैली में मौजूद जनसैलाब वोट में बदलेगा। जाहिर है…
(LiveMint) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina will share the dais for the inauguration of Bangladesh Bhawan at Santiniketan on 25 May, officiating vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Sabujkali Sen said on Saturday. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will also be invited to the programme, Sen said. Modi will also attend the convocation ceremony of Visva-Bharati University. It would be his maiden visit to the varsity after becoming its ‘acharya’ or chancellor. As per the rules of the university, a prime minister is its chancellor and the president of the country its ‘paridarshaka’ (visitor), who appoints the…
(PTI) Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan today said the government had proposed a tax rate of five per cent on ethanol to the GST Council. “We have proposed to the GST Council to reduce the GST on ethanol to 5 per cent from 18 per cent,” Paswan said, adding that the sugar industry was facing problems due to a crash in prices. It was decided in the GST Council meeting, held yesterday, that a separate group of ministers would look into the issue of levy of cess on sugar as well as reduction…