The Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Shri Arun Jaitley said that despite subdued global economic growth, India’s growth remains impressive and one of the best in the world during the last three years. He said that India has recorded an average growth of 7.5% from 2014-15 to 2016-17, significantly higher as compared to the growth in the previous two years. The Finance Minister Shri Jaitley was making the Opening Remarks during his 5th Pre-Budget Consultation Meeting with the leading Economists here in New Delhi today. The Finance Minister Shri Jaitley further said that the growth of Second Quarter of the…
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Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon’ble Minister of Law & Justice and Electronics & Information Technology inaugurated the “NIC-CERT”, a setup of National Informatics Centre, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on 11thDecember 2017. During the inauguration, Hon’ble Minister said that as part of its Digital India initiatives, the Government has introduced a lot of its services online. Although this has made services very accessible to the citizens, it has also exposed them to the threats and vulnerabilities which are an inherent part of cyberspace. He mentioned that in the recent past there has been an exponential growth in cyber attacks…
(PTI) Infra major NCC Ltd expects to start development and operation of Talaipalli coal block from 2019-20 onwards and contribute about Rs 190 crore to topline during the first year of its commercial operation. The company is also betting big on infrastructure and housing projects from Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh which is under development stage. The Talaipalli coal block is located in Chhattisgarh. “The work (on the project) will start in FY18. Commercial production may start from 2019-20. In the first year of commercial operations, we are aiming at 4 million tonnes of coal extraction and supply,”…
(AU) पिछले 17 महीने में 19 किस्तों में एलपीजी घरेलू गैस सिलेंडर के दाम में 76.5 रुपये की वृद्धि करने के बाद देश की तेल कंपनियों ने इस महीने कीमतों में बदलाव न करने का फैसला किया है। सरकारी स्वामित्व वाली इंडियन ऑयल कार्प, भारत पेट्रोलियम और हिंदुस्तान पेट्रोलियम कार्प लिमिटेड पिछले साल जुलाई से हर महीने एलपीजी का दाम बढ़ा रही हैं। उनका लक्ष्य 2018 तक सरकारी सब्सिडी को खत्म करना है। पर गुजरात चुनाव से पहले इस महीने कीमतों में वृद्धि नहीं की गई।इन तीन कंपनियों में से एक के उच्च अधिकारी ने कहा, हां यह सच है कि हमने…
(PTI) GAIL India Ltd will import about 5 million tonnes (MT) of LNG from the US next fiscal, replacing the volumes the state-owned utility buys from the spot market, a senior company official said. GAIL has contracted 5.8 MT per annum of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US, some of which it has swapped – either by exchanging the gas with someone having it nearer to India or by time-swapping it. “We expect to receive about 5 million tonnes of LNG from US next fiscal (2018-19),” the official said. This will be used for replacing the LNG that GAIL…
(PTI) The BJP will see the impact of demonetisation and GST in poll results of Gujarat where people have “made up their mind against the party”, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav today said.He said the BJP’s graph was coming down as its policies were “anti-farmer and anti-trader”. “The decision of demonetisation and GST has impacted traders and the entire business and the economy is ruined. In Gujarat poll results, the BJP will see its impact as people have made up their mind to vote against it,” Yadav said while addressing a traders’ conference at the party headquarters here.On the civic…
(PTI) BSP chief Mayawati today challenged the BJP to conduct Vidhan Sabha and Lok Sabha elections on ballot paper instead of electronic voting machines (EVM).Addressing a rally at Nagpur, Mayawati said, “If BJP thinks that they are honest and transparent then they should conduct all the upcoming elections in the country with ballot paper instead of EVM.” She said that the BJP’s silnece on the issue showed that EVMs had irregularities in elections that were conducted in various parts of India since 2014. Mayawati claimed that the BSP had to suffer heavy losses in elections to the Lok Sabha in 2014…
(First Post) Heavy snow and rainfall is likely to hit Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir in the next week due to Western Disturbances in the weather systems. According to Skymet Weather, light to moderate rainfall and snowing is expected in parts of northern states of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. The intensity will increase as time progresses. The report also predicted light rainfall in Uttarakhand in the next 24 hours as well. The reason for this is an active Western Disturbance developing over north Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir. Rains in the hilly states is likely to be followed by snowfall which will pick up…
(DJ) भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक (आरबीआइ) की ओर से आपको दो करोड़ रुपये देने के लिए चुना गया है। अपना विवरण दीजिए और पैसा घर ले जाइए।’ ऐसे लुभावने एसएमएस या ईमेल भेजकर लोगों को ठगने के मामले तेजी से बढ़ रहे हैं। आमजन को इस तरह की ठगी से बचाने के लिए अब खुद रिजर्व बैंक ने कमर कस ली है। केंद्रीय बैंक ने लोगों को जागरूक करने के लिए एसएमएस और मिस्ड कॉल हेल्पलाइन की व्यवस्था शुरू की है। रिजर्व बैंक समय-समय पर ऐसे फ्रॉड को लेकर चेतावनी जारी करता रहता है। बावजूद इसके मामले कम होने का नाम…
(LiveMint) Rahul Gandhi is set to be named as the next president of the Congress on Monday, a role that will need him to take along the old guard while breathing new life into the party in order to face up to the challenge of a resurgent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Monday is the last date for withdrawal of candidature, and Gandhi is the only candidate in the race to fill his mother Sonia Gandhi’s shoes as party president.The 47-year-old leader will become the sixth member of the Nehru-Gandhi family to take over the top…