(ET) Diesel prices have flared up to a new record level in Delhi while petrol, kerosene and jet fuel prices continue to rise in the country in line with the surge in global crude oil prices. State-owned oil companies sold diesel to retail consumers for Rs 59.70 a litre in Delhi on Monday at the highest ever price in the city. In Kolkata and Chennai, diesel prices were the highest since September 2014. In Mumbai, prices were the highest since March 2017. Petrol prices in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and many other cities were the highest since October 3, 2017, when the…
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(ET) Yogi Adityanath is headed for the United States in May on his first trip as Uttar Pradesh chief minister where he is expected to engage with heads of leading companies and promote the state as an investment destination. The CM could visit Silicon Valley along with half a dozen American cities, hold roadshows and meet nonresident Indians from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar during the trip which includes neighbouring Canada. UP health minister Siddharth Nath Singh told ET that he would be leading a team to the US in March to prepare the ground for the CM’s visit. The CM’s…
(AU) केंद्रीय चुनाव आयोग ने सीएम त्रिवेंद्र सिंह रावत की संपत्ति का ब्योरा मांगा है। संपत्ति को लेकर की गई शिकायत पर सीएम ने शनिवार को पहली बार प्रतिक्रिया भी दी। उन्होंने कहा कि जांच एजेंसी इस मामले में अपना काम करेगी। जनसंघर्ष मोर्चा के अध्यक्ष रघुनाथ सिंह नेगी ने सीएम की संपत्ति पर सवाल उठाते हुए इसकी शिकायत निर्वाचन आयोग से की थी। आयोग ने इस मामले को सेंट्रल बोर्ड ऑफ डायरेक्ट टैक्स को रेफर किया है। मोर्चा के अध्यक्ष ने पिछले दिनों सीएम की संपत्ति और उनकी जन्मतिथि को लेकर सवाल उठाते हुए प्रेस कान्फ्रेंस की थी। उन्होंने कहा…
(LiveMint) Over 350 planes flying into and out of Delhi were delayed, diverted or cancelled as the season’s “worst” fog reduced visibility to 50 metres at the Indira Gandhi International Airport on New Year’s eve. Over 270 flights were delayed, nearly 50 diverted and an estimated 35 cancelled. No flight could take off from the airport here for nearly four hours between 7.30am and 11.05am on Sunday, according to an airport official. Take-offs from the IGI Airport require a minimum visibility range of 125 metres. However, as Delhi airport has advanced technology for low-visibility landings, called the CAT IIIB system…
(AU) जम्मू और कश्मीर के पुलवामा में आतंकियों और सेना के बीच हुई मुठभेड़ पर गृहमंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने कड़ी नाराजगी जताई है। राजनाथ ने कहा कि आतंकियों ने कायराना हरकत की है, लेकिन शहीद हुए जवानों का बलिदान हम व्यर्थ नहीं जाने देंगे। राजनाथ ने कहा कि उन्हें बहादुर जवानों पर गर्व है। दरअसल, आतंकी संगठन जैश ए मोहम्मद के फिदायीन दल ने सीआरपीएफ ट्रेनिंग सेंटर पर हमला कर दिया था, जिसमें पांच जवान शहीद हो गए। जवाबी कार्रवाई में दो आतंकियों को ढेर कर दिया गया। करीब 12 घंटे चली मुठभेड़ में तीन जवानों के घायल होने की खबर भी है। रविवार सुबह…
(LiveMint) Gujarat deputy chief minister Nitin Patel took charge on Sunday after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah agreed to Patel’s demand that an important portfolio be alloted to him. According to a state government statement, Patel was given the finance portfolio that had been earlier allotted to Saurabh Patel. It was not immediately known if Saurabh Patel, who also has the energy portfolio, would be given any additional department. “My demand was not for any position or portfolio, for that is for the party to decide. I had communicated to the party earlier and even during the…
(FE) In a first, BJP government in Assam has come up with first draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) at the stroke of midnight. The list includes the names of 1.9 crore people out of the 3.29 crore total applicants, recognising them as legal citizens of India. The rest of the names are under various stages of verification, according to reports. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has also asked the ‘genuine citizens’ who had been left out to not panic as they could still get their names included in the final list. “This is going to be a historic moment, not…
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(ET) State-run power giant NTPC Group’s capacity will cross the 51,000-MW mark on Sunday midnight with the beginning of commercial operations of Unit-2 of the Kudgi Super Thermal Project. “Unit-2 of 800 MW of Kudgi Super Thermal Project, Stage-I (3 X 800 MW) will be declared on commercial operation from midnight on December 31, 2017,” the NTPC Ltd said in a BSE filing today. With this, the commercial capacity of Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project, NTPC and NTPC Group would reach 1,600 MW, 44,492 MW and 51,383 MW, respectively. In a separate BSE filing, NTPC Ltd said its board of directors in…
(DJ) जम्मू कश्मीर, हिमाचल प्रदेश और उत्तराखंड में शुक्रवार को शीतलहर ने कहर बरपाया। इन राज्यों में कई जगहों पर न्यूनतम तापमान शून्य डिग्री सेल्सियस से नीचे रिकॉर्ड किया गया। कोहरे की वजह से हरियाणा, पंजाब, उत्तर प्रदेश और दिल्ली मेंं दृश्यता कम रही। हालांकि दोपहर बाद धूप निकली और लोगों ने राहत की सांस ली। जम्मू कश्मीर और हिमाचल प्रदेश में कई जगहों पर तापमान शून्य से नीचे कश्मीर में काफी समय से शुष्क चल रहे मौसम के मिजाज छह जनवरी से फिर से बदलने वाले हैं। मौसम विभाग की मानें तो पश्चिमी हवाएं फिर से सक्रिय हो रही…