(LiveMint) Reviving an old tradition of the party, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday interacted with delegations of its leaders and workers from across the country at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in New Delhi. According to party officials, Gandhi came to the party headquarters at Akbar Road in New Delhi at around 9:15am and met delegations of workers from various states, including Delhi, Rajasthan and poll-bound Karnataka. These delegations were listed for appointments with the party chief earlier. Easy accessibility of the Congress president was an issue of debate in the past. The Congress chief’s office at…
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(DJ) राष्ट्रपित रामनाथ कोविंद के अभिभाषण पर लोकसभा के बाद राज्यसभा में धन्यवाद प्रस्ताव पर चर्चा का जवाब देते हुए प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने कांग्रेस पर जमकर हमला किया। पीएम मोदी ने कहा कि आरोग्य के क्षेत्र में अभी बहुत कुछ करने की जरूरत है। कांग्रेस मुक्त भारत का विचार महात्मा गांधी जी का था। हमने दल से आगे देश को रखा है, हमारे निर्णय का आधार देश हित रहता है। हमारी सरकार देश के विकास को ध्यान में रखकर योजनाए ला रही है। हम न्यू इंडिया के मिशन पर है, लेकिन कांग्रेस कहती है कि उसे न्यू इंडिया नहीं…
(LiveMint) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday kept interest rates unchanged but hinted that monetary conditions are likely to remain tight because of rising risks to inflation. It raised its March-end Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation forecast to 5.1% and projected an inflation range of 5.1-5.6% in the first half of the next fiscal year. The monetary policy committee of the central bank decided to keep repo rate—at which the RBI infuses liquidity in the banking system—on hold at 6%. Five members of the panel voted to keep rates unchanged, while Michael Patra, executive director at the central…
PM Modi’s reply to the ‘Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address’ in the Rajya Sabha
(LiveMint) The opposition Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra on Tuesday indicated they were ready to jointly fight the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the next general and assembly elections. At a joint meeting in Mumbai on Tuesday, state-level leaders from the two parties agreed to work together to prevent division in the “secular votes”, according to Maharashtra Congress president Ashok Chavan and his NCP counterpart Sunil Tatkare. The Congress and the NCP had decided to split just ahead of the assembly elections in October 2014. In that election, the Congress won 42 seats and the NCP 41…
(ET) Delhi reported 785 cases of short-delivery of fuel at petrol pumps between April 2014 and December 2017, ranking third among all the states in the number of such cases. The national capital was only behind Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh with 1,560 and 913 cases, respectively, data shared by oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan in Parliament shows. India has a total of 61,381 retail fuel outlets. Uttar Pradesh with 7,069 retail outlets has the highest number of petrol pumps followed by 5,684 in Maharashtra. Delhi’s third rank on short-delivery assumes importance given the less number of total outlets (396) in the…
In so far as the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Department of Consumer Affairs) is concerned, a portal called “Grievance Against Misleading Advertisements (GAMA)” has been launched to deal with the complaints relating to misleading advertisements. Under an MoU, the Department has assigned the task of processing the complaints received through the GAMA portal to the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) as per its code. Complaints received through this portal are evaluated by ASCI and are processed through its Consumer Complaints Council. In cases where the complaints are upheld, the advertisers are asked to modify or…
(NDTV) The Supreme Court today came down heavily on the centre for filing an 845-page affidavit containing incomplete information about solid waste management across the country and said that the Supreme Court of India is not a “garbage collector”. The top court declined to take the affidavit on record and said that the government cannot dump “junk” before it. “What are you trying to do? Are you trying to impress us? We are not impressed. You are trying to dump everything on us. We are not going to accept it,” a bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta…
The Government introduced new Consumer Protection Bill, 2018 in the Lok Sabha on 05.01.2018. The salient features of the bill include establishment of an executive agency to be known as the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) to promote, protect and enforce the rights of the consumers and will be empowered to investigate, recall, refund and impose penalties; provision for product liability action in cases of personal injury, death, or property damage caused by or resulting from any product; provision for mediation as an Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) making the process of dispute adjudication simpler and quicker and simplification of the…
(DJ) भारतीय विशिष्ट पहचान प्राधिकरण (यूआईडीएआई) ने आम जनता को आगाह किया कि वह प्लास्टिक वाले या लेमिनेटेड आधार स्मार्ट कार्ड न बनवाए और ना ही इनका प्रयोग करें। क्योंकि इनकी अनाधिकृत छपाई से क्यूआर कोड काम करना बंद कर सकता है या उनकी सहमति के बिना ही किसी कि भी व्यक्तिगत जानकारी सार्वजनिक हो सकती है। यूनीक आईडेंटिफिकेशन अथॉरिटी ऑफ इंडिया के अनुसार आधार कार्ड या इसका कटा हुआ भाग, सामान्य कागज पर आधार का इंटरनेट से निकाला गया संस्करण या एम आधार पूरी तरह वैध है। यूनीक आईडेंटिफिकेशन अथॉरिटी ऑफ इंडिया का कहना है कि आधार स्मार्ट कार्ड…