(FE) An earthquake hit the North Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday morning. The India Meteorological Department confirmed the news and stated that the quake was measured 4.5 on the Richter scale. This is a low-density earthquake and no damage to life or property has been reported so far. The local media, however, reports that there was a situation of panic and people had to come out of their residences to protect themselves. The Indian Meteorological Department said that the depth of the quake was 10 kilometres and it resulted in jolts for a few seconds across most parts of…
Author: Aruna Sharma
Amidst stiff international competitive bidding (ICB), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won a Rs.11,700 Crore order for setting up a 3×800 MW supercritical thermal power plant in Jharkhand. The order for setting up the 3×800 MW Patratu Super Thermal Power Station Expansion, Phase-I (3x 800 MW) has been placed on BHEL by Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited (PVUNL – a subsidiary of NTPC Ltd. in Joint Venture with Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited). Significantly, this is the single largest order ever placed by NTPC or its subsidiaries and the second largest order ever won by BHEL. Located at Patratu in…
(FE) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) ministers who resigned from the Union Cabinet that he is with Andhra Pradesh.This was informed by Y.S. Chowdary at a press conference in presence of Ashok Gajapathi Raju. Union Aviation Minister Raju and Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Y.S. Chowdary submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Modi on Thursday evening amid the ongoing TDP-BJP tussle over the special status for Andhra Pradesh. They resigned on the directions of TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. “Prime Minister Modi received us cordially…
(Tribune) While in the Opposition, the BJP had trained guns on the Congress for its poor budget spending, but now in power in the state, the track record of the BJP government is no different. Instead of spending 100 per cent, the government has only spent about 66 per cent of the budget (2017-2018) and the financial year is about to end.Soon after taking up the reins of the state last year, the BJP government had made a provision of Rs 40,080.94 crore in its first budget with a promise that the entire budget would be spent by departments. However, the…
(AT) फूलपुर उपचुनाव में उत्तर प्रदेश के उप मुख्यमंत्री केशव प्रसाद मौर्य की प्रतिष्ठा दांव पर लगी हुई है. ऐसे में केशव प्रसाद मौर्य अपनी छोड़ी हुई सीट पर जी जान लगा रहे हैं. सपा और बसपा के एक साथ आने के बाद फूलपुर में मुकाबला कड़ा हो गया है, लेकिन केशव मौर्य अपनी जीत को लेकर आश्वस्त हैं. उन्होंने इस उपचुनाव को लेकर आजतक से खास बातचीत की. जानिए आखिर केशव मौर्य ने क्या-क्या कहा? साल 2014 में ये सब अलग-अलग चुनाव लड़े थे. इसके बावजूद हम 52 फीसदी वोट पाए थे और ये सब मिलकर भी हमारे बराबर नहीं…
(ET) Nearly 80 per cent of Indian households now have access to clean cooking gas, a big jump from 56 per cent three years ago, as state-run oil firms are enrolling new customers at a record pace to meet the target set by the Modi government. These firms added as many as seven crore LPG customers between April 2015 and December 2017, expanding the active customer base by about 50 per cent, an unheard-of rate in the past. The key driver of such expansion has been the government determination to wean all homes off hazardous traditional cooking fuel such as firewood…
(LiveMint) Call it the Patanjali effect. If you are in the packaged consumer goods business and the market is India, the pace setter is Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, the company set up by yoga guru-turned businessman Baba Ramdev and the mantra for success is to launch herbal and ayurvedic products, never mind your multinational antecedents. Amway India Enterprises Pvt. Ltd, the local unit of American direct-selling company Amway, is the latest to join that bandwagon, having launched a bouquet of dietary supplements that consist of traditional Indian herbs like tulsi, brahmi, ashwgandha, amlaki, vibhitaki and haritaki, under the Nutrilite brand. Nutrilite accounts…
(AU) अखिलेश यादव व शिवपाल सिंह यादव के बीच सब कुछ सामान्य नहीं चल रहा है ये तो होली के एक कार्यक्रम में दिख ही गया। वहीं, शिवपाल भी मौका मिलने पर अखिलेश को बख्शने के मूड में नही हैं। गोरखपुर व फूलपुर के उपचुनाव में बसपा, सपा के उम्मीदवारों का समर्थन कर रही है, लेकिन लोकसभा चुनाव 2019 में दोनों पार्टियों के गठबंधन पर मायावती ने अभी स्पष्ट रुख नहीं दिखाया। कहा तो ये तक जा रहा है कि मायावती ने राज्यसभा की दसवीं सीट के लिए अंतिम समय में अपनी रणनीति बदलते हुए भीमराव अंबेडकर को प्रत्याशी बनाया।…
(FE) Biplab Kumar Deb will be sworn in as the chief minister of Tripura on Friday, officially ushering the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the Left bastion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all the chief ministers of the BJP-ruled states have been invited. “The swearing-in ceremony will be on March 9 at 10.30 am. We have sent an invitation to the Prime Minister and all the chief ministers of the BJP government. I hope Prime Minister accepts the invitation,” said Deb, while addressing the media on Thursday. Former chief minister Manik Sarkar was personally invited by Deb and BJP National General…
(ET) The power ministry has asked the two state-run power sector financiers Power Finance Corp and Rural Electrification Corp to be cautious in lending to power distribution companies that have high distribution losses making it difficult for them to repay the loans. Power minister RK Singh on Wednesday took a review of the institutions and directed them to exercise prudential norms before granting of loan either for capital expenditure or for non-capital expenditure, an official san official statement said. “The minister directed that discoms, which are making losses above 15 per cent, will not be granted any loans for capital…