(AU) बिहार के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री और राजद प्रमुख लालू प्रसाद यादव के खिलाफ चारा घोटाले के देवघर मामले में बृहस्पतिवार को सजा का एलान हो सकता है। दो वकीलों के निधन पर बुधवार को आयोजित शोकसभा की वजह से कोर्ट के सामने मामला नहीं आ पाया। विशेष सीबीआई कोर्ट ने 23 दिसंबर को लालू और 15 अन्य लोगों को देवघर मामले में दोषी करार दिया था और पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री जगन्नाथ मिश्र समेत छह लोगों को बरी कर दिया था। कोर्ट ने सजा के एलान के लिए 3 जनवरी की तिथि निर्धारित की थी। रांची की बिरसा मुंडा जेल से लालू और अन्य दोषियों को…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(PTI) Indian Oil Corp (IOC), the nation’s biggest oil firm, has adopted 2018 as the ‘Year of Trust’ as it earned belief in the delivery potential in programmes like PMUY, and decision of early implementation of BS-VI fuel norms. Every second Indian is served by the company as it commands half of the auto fuel and cooking fuel market share. “From Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) to daily price revision of petrol and diesel, to the decision to leapfrog BS-VI fuels supply in Delhi by April 1, 2018, two years before its actual implementation date, are a few instances where…
(AU) चीन अपनी हरकतों से बाज नहीं आ रहा है। 73 दिन चला डोकलम विवाद अभी शांत ही हुआ है कि उसने अरुणाचल में घुसपैठ कर दी। सरकार के सूत्रों के अनुसार, चीन की सड़क निर्माण टीमें दिसंबर के आखिरी हफ्ते में अरुणाचल के तूतिंग में एक किलोमीटर अंदर तक घुस आईं। भारतीय सैनिकों से सामना होने पर वे सामान छोड़कर चले गए। हालांकि सरहदी गांववालों का दावा है कि वहां चीनी सैनिक सड़क बनाने के लिए कटान कर रहे थे। सूत्रों के अनुसार, चीनी दल जो सामान छोड़कर भागा है, उनमें सड़क बनाने वाले औजार व खुदाई करने वाले उपकरण शामिल हैं। घटना 28…
(TOI) Amid talks of merger of public sector oil and gas companies, the government is considering a proposal to split GAIL (India) with the marketing operations spun off into a separate company. Sources told TOI that the plan is being discussed in the petroleum ministry as the Centre is unhappy with the state-run player’s performance in building a pipeline network in addition to a possible conflict of interest in its role as the infrastructure provider as well as a carrier. “It is like building a road and also deciding who can ply and at what cost,” said a source, who did not…
(NDTV) As the Aam Aadmi Party announced its nominees for elections to three Delhi Rajya Sabha seats that it will win, its senior leader Kumar Vishwas went public with his battle against party chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying he has been “punished for speaking the truth.” Kumar Vishwas’ supporters had picketed the party office demanding that their leader, who founded AAP along with Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, be sent to parliament. But his frequent run-ins with Mr Kejriwal, who accuses Mr Vishwas of plotting to overthrow him as AAP chief, cancelled the chances…
(FE) The Finance Ministry has approved a capital infusion of Rs 7,577 crore in six weak public sector banks (PSBs) as part of its Indradhanush bank recapitalisation plan to boost their capital adequacy ratio. All the six banks are those banks that been put under Reserve Bank of India’s watch for high non-performing assets (NPA). These banks are Bank of India, IDBI Bank, Central Bank of India, Dena Bank, Bank of Maharashtra and UCO Bank. Under the Indradhanush Plan, the government allocated Rs 70,000 crore for four years — Rs 25,000 crore each for FY 15-16 and 16-17 and Rs 10,000 crore each…
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved amendments in the Model Concession Agreement (MCA) to make the Port Projects more investor-friendly and make investment climate in the Port Sector more attractive. Salient features: The amendments in the MCA envisage constitution of the Society for Affordable Redressal of Disputes – Ports (SAROD-PORTS) as dispute resolution mechanism similar to provision available in Highway Sector. The other salient features of the revised MCA include the following:- Providing exit route to developers by way of divesting their equity upto 100% after completion of 2 years from the Commercial Operation Date(COD). This…
(FE) Reliance Industries is likely to see a big cash-flow boost as projects of over $40 billion start to deliver in full swing this fiscal while capex falls, international brokerage house CLSA said today. In a report, CLSA said that the stabilisation of just-commissioned refinery off-gas cracker (ROGC) and petcoke gasification projects would boost EBITDA, PTI reported. ROGC is the latest addition to the RIL’s portfolio as the world’s first ever and the largest. The ROGC complex is a core component of RIL’s most innovative and world-scale J3 project at its integrated Refinery-Petrochemicals complex at Jamnagar. With the commissioning of ROGC…
Indian Railways has tested the bio-diesel of different feed stock (Jatropha, Mahua, pongamia, waste cotton seed, Fish Oil, Soyabeen oil, Palm stearin etc.) in the different blending ratio such as B5, B10, B20, B50 and B 100 on its 16 cylinder ALCo and EMD engine test beds. The power performance of engine has been found satisfactory without any adverse impact on engine working. Besides, bio-diesel is found to reduce certain emission parameters which would have otherwise caused pollution in environment. Key Advantages of Bio-Diesel: (i) Renewable Energy source (ii) Derived from Vegetable oil (iii) Non-toxic & Biodegradable (iv) Contains no…
(AU) चारा घोटाला मामले में लालू यादव समेत 16 आरोपियों के खिलाफ स्पेशल सीबीआई कोर्ट में आज सुनवाई नहीं हो पाई। कोर्ट ने एडवोकेट बिंदेश्वरी प्रसाद के निधन की वजह से मामले की सुनवाई कल (4 जनवरी) तक के लिए टाल दी। अब इस मामले में गुरुवार को सुनवाई होगी। कोर्ट ने रघुवंश प्रसाद सिंह, तेजस्वी यादव और मनोज झा को अवमानना के कारण 23 जनवरी को तलब किया है। आरजेडी के मनोज झा ने कोर्ट की अवमानना के दोषी पाये जाने के मामले में कहा कि यह हैरान करने वाला है क्योंकि हमने न्याय व्यवस्था और फैसले के खिलाफ कुछ भी नहीं…