(PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address about 20 rallies in Karnataka to boost the BJP’s campaign in a state where his party is locked in a keen fight with the Congress. Party sources said Modi, BJP’s biggest crowd-puller, is likely to kick off a series of rallies in the southern state from May 1. Though he had address public meetings in the state earlier, he has not hit the campaign trail since the Election Commission announced the assembly election schedule on March 27. The election is scheduled for May 12 and the counting of votes will take place…
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(LiveMint) The spike in Brent crude prices could cause a major headwind for Indian markets and upset the country’s macroeconomic balance in financial year 2019. Oil rose above $75 a barrel on Tuesday to its highest since November 2014, supported by production cuts led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), strong demand and the prospect of renewed US sanctions on Iran. Brent crude prices have surged 11.92% so far this year. Analysts said rising crude prices may hurt the margins of Indian companies amid growing expectations of an earnings revival spurred by consumption in rural sectors. According to Ravi Gopalakrishnan,…
Mr Dharmendra Pradhan, Hon’ble Minister of Petroleum & Natural and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship attended the ‘ONGC Solar Chulha Challenge’ exhibition. The challenge is aimed at developing cost effective and efficient solar power stove systems in line with the vision of Hon’ble Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi to touch poor lives by providing them safe and low cost alternatives for clean household cooking. This is the first-of-its-kind initiative taken up by any corporate to promote solar chulha in order to reach out to the last mile of the society. The genesis of the challenge lay in the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s…
(LiveMint) A report by State Bank of India (SBI) has claimed that cash withdrawals rose sharply the second half of 2017-18. While withdrawals in the second halves of fiscal years have always been higher than the first, the SBI report said the increase in FY18 was unusual. When we look at the data posted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), some interesting patterns emerge in terms of cash withdrawals from ATMs. Firstly, if we look at the number of cash withdrawals from ATMs per month, we see that the number of withdrawals is still lower than what it used to be…
(PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a scheme that seeks to strengthen the country’s Panchayati Raj system and address critical gaps that hinder its success. He launched the Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan at Ramnagar in this tribal-dominated district of Madhya Pradesh on the occasion of National Panchayati Raj Day. The Central government scheme aims at making rural local bodies self-sustainable, financially stable and more efficient. The programme seeks to address critical gaps that hinder the success of Panchayats by enhancing their capacities and effectiveness, and promote devolution of powers and responsibilities. On the occasion, Modi unveiled a roadmap for development of tribal…
(LiveMint) The centre will introduce a steel scrap policy this year which, in conjunction with the much-awaited vehicle scrappage policy, will lay out the rules and regulations for using scrap from old vehicles to produce steel.This policy will be out by this December, Aruna Sharma, secretary, ministry of steel, told Mint on the sidelines of an industry event.Earlier this month, Mahindra MSTC Recycling, a joint venture between state-run metal scrap trading firm MSTC and Mahindra Intertrade Ltd, started pilot runs for dismantling and selling scrap from old commercial vehicles in Greater Noida. “Four more such centres are in the pipeline, and three…
(DJ) कनाडा के टोरंटो में एक ट्रक ने पैदल यात्रियों को कुचल कर मार डाला। इस हादसे में 9 लोगों की जान चली गई, जबकि 16 अन्य घायल हो गए। पुलिस ने आरोपी ट्रक ड्राइवर को गिरफ्तार कर लिया है। वहीं, मामले की जानकारी मिलते ही घटनास्थल पर पहुंची पुलिस ने घायलों को नजदीकी अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया। जहां ज्यादातर घायलों की हालत गंभीर बताई जा रही है। यह घटना योंग स्ट्रीट और फ़िंच एवेन्यू में सोमवार को स्थानीय समयानुसार दोपहर डेढ़ बजे हुई। फिलहाल पुलिस ने अब तक यह नहीं बताया है कि घटना को जानबूझकर अंजाम दिया गया या…
(PTI) The meetings of the defence and foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), being attended by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, began here on Tuesday. The two meetings are being held around the same time. Sitharaman who arrived here last night attended the defence ministers’ meeting and Swaraj took part in the foreign ministers’ meeting. The two meetings were being held as part of the preparations for the SCO summit to be held in the Chinese city of Qingdao in June. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to attend it. These are the first top ministerial-level meetings of the SCO after the admission of India and Pakistan as members last year. A host of…
(PTI) Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today accused the Congress of running the country through courts based on “half-baked, false and sponsored litigations”, alleging that it used the death of judge B H Loya as a political tool to settle scores. His remarks came in the backdrop of Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu rejecting a notice by seven opposition parties led by Congress to impeach Chief Justice of India Dipak Mishra. “The Congress, being defeated by the people repeatedly, can’t run the country through corridors of courts based upon half-baked, false and sponsored litigations,” he claimed. He said the Congress’ use…
(Hindustan) उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार ने सोमवार को 26 सहायक पुलिस अधीक्षकों (एएसपी) का तबादला कर दिया है। मुख्यमंत्री सुरक्षा में तैनात एएसपी आरएस गौतम को यूपी 100 सेवा लखनऊ में स्थानान्तरित किया गया है। तबादलों की इस जद में शामिल आरएस गौतम के अलावा प्रमोद कुमार तिवार को एएसपी ग्रामीण बुलंदशहर से एएसपी प्रशिक्षण अकादमी मुरादाबाद, राम बदन सिंह को एएसपी डीजीपी मुख्यालय से एएसपी ग्रामीण इटावा, अजय कुमार को एएसपी बागपत से एएसपी एसआईटी लखनऊ, जय प्रकाश सिंह को एएसपी ग्रामीण कानपुर नगर से एएसपी एटीएस लखनऊ, प्रद्युम्न सिंह को एएसपी डीजीपी मुख्यालय से एएसपी ग्रामीण कानपुर नगर, अरविंद मिश्र को…