(Amar Ujala) विधानसभा चुनाव में भितरघात पर हिमाचल कांग्रेस ने हाईकमान के निर्देश पर दो पूर्व मंत्रियों और दो पूर्व विधायकों समेत 37 नेताओं को पार्टी से बाहर कर दिया है। छह साल के लिए निष्कासित किए नेताओं में पूर्व मंत्री रंगीला राम राव, पूर्व विधायक टेक चंद डोगरा, मनजीत डोगरा और रघुवीर सिंह भी शामिल हैं। एनएसयूआई प्रदेशाध्यक्ष करुण शर्मा समेत कांग्रेस के कई पदाधिकारी भी पार्टी से निकाल दिए गए हैं। कांग्रेस से बाहर किए इन नेताओं में ज्यादातर पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री वीरभद्र सिंह के करीबी हैं। राहुल गांधी के कड़े रुख के बाद हिमाचल कांग्रेस के प्रदेशाध्यक्ष सुखविंद्र…
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(PTI) The Union budget for fiscal 2018-19 has proposed electrification of 881 km of rail network in West Bengal at a proposed cost of Rs 771.54 crore, a senior railway official said here today. The project will be undertaken in seven zones of West Bengal, under the jurisdiction of Kolkata-based Eastern Railway, South Eastern Railway (SER) and Maligaon-based North Frontier Railway (NFR), he said. Among these seven areas, the New Jalpaiguri-New Mal Jn-Alipurduar-Samuktala section and Alipurduar-New Coochbehar section, including New Mal Jn-Changrabandha, New Changrabandha-New Coochbehar, New Coochbehar-Bamanhat and New Coochbehar-Fakirgram-Dhubri routes, will see the most extensive work. The electrification work,…
(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…
(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…