(LiveMint) After over one year of consultations and heated debate, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will issue its much-awaited recommendations on net neutrality. “We will issue the recommendations on net neutrality tomorrow,” Trai chairman R.S. Sharma told reporters on Monday. Net neutrality requires telecom service providers to treat all internet traffic equally, without regard for the type, origin, or destination of the content or the means of its transmission.The issue has been debated upon globally as well as in India, with activists arguing the case for an open internet without any restrictions on speed. The recommendations that the regulator…
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(Hindustan) गुजरात में चुनाव प्रचार के लिए बीजेपी ने अपने दिग्गजों को उतार दिया है। कल प्रधानमत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने भुज में जनसभा को संबोधित किया और आज से यूपी के मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ गुजरात दौरे पर हैं। मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ मंगलवार दोपहर को फिर गुजरात के चुनावी दौरे पर जाएंगे। सीएम मंगलवार को गुजरात के उमरगांव और परडी में जनसभा करेंगे । सीएम का रात्रि निवास वलसाड में ही होगा। अगले दिन 29 को भाजपा के स्टार प्रचारक के तौर पर योगी आदित्यनाथ पटदी, जामनगर, रनावव और पोरबन्दर में जनसभा करेंगे। योगी रात में पोरबन्दर में रुकेंगे। 30 दिसंबर…
(TOI) Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan will inaugurate a terminal of Indian Oil Corporation, state’s biggest, on November 29. IOCL officials said the automated terminal at Jharsuguda has been built at a total investment of Rs 140 crore. The oil terminal has a capacity to store 49,000 Kilo Litre, (coverage 22 days) with 2,200 KL per day sale of petrol, diesel and kerosene to cater more than 350 sale points within a radius of 550 km round the year supply.
(PTI) Tata Power Solar said today that it has commissioned India’s first solar carport on the rooftop of mall in the national capital. The company said it has reached a landmark by commissioning an unprecedented rooftop project in India – a solar carport on the rooftop of the sprawling 70,000 sq mt Unity One mall in Rohini. It said in a statement that the unique rooftop carport is estimated to set off 438 tonne of carbon emission annually. Tata Power Solar won the bid in the open tender process fielded by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for multi-level car parking. The project…
(FE) Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday suffered severe stomach pain, following which he was admitted to Breach Candy hospital in South Mumbai in the evening. Goyal was about to address a press conference at 6.30 pm at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station when he was rushed to the hospital. Minister had to cancel his meetings with senior railways officials midway. Senior Railway officials claim that Goyal suffered severe stomach pain and even throat issues. Before hospitalisation, Goyal visited suburban Elphinstone Road and Currey Road stations to take stock of ongoing construction of the Foot Over Bridges (FOBs) by the…
The Government of India, with the approval President of India, has constituted Fifteenth Finance Commission in pursuance of clause (1) of article 280 of the Constitution, read with the provisions of the Finance Commission (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1951 w.e.f. 27thNovember, 2017. The Commission will make recommendations for the five years commencing on April 1, 2020. This Commission will be headed by Shri. N.K.Singh, former Member of Parliament and former Secretary to the Government of India. Shri Shaktikanta Das, former Secretary to the Government of India and Dr. Anoop Singh, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University shall be the members of the Commission. Dr. Ashok Lahiri, Chairman (Non-executive, part time), Bandhan…
(PTI) The income tax department will launch full-fledged assessment proceedings from January next year against those assessees who have deposited “suspicious” amounts of money in banks, post demonetisation, but have not filed their income tax returns (ITRs) till now. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), which frames policies for the department, has asked the taxman to finish the process of serving notices to such entities by 31 December. “The department will initiate full-fledged assessment proceedings against these assessees from the later part of January, after the replies to the I-T notices are received. The cases, where the replies to the…
PM Shri Narendra Modi Addresses Public Meeting In Kamrej, Gujarat
(FE) The disinvestment of troubled state-run carrier Air India is unlikely in the fiscal year 2017-18, a divergence from the initial plan of completing the process by early 2018. CNBC-TV18 reported citing government source that the disinvestment process may not complete in the current fiscal. Although, the capital infusion from the government will continue until the privatisation. The government has decided on strategic disinvestment of loss-making Air India, which is guzzling up taxpayers’ money ridden with inefficiencies and mismanagement. The national carrier, under intense competition from more efficient and often-cheaper private airlines, is reeling under a debt of over Rs 52,000 crore.…
(PTI) The Aam Aadmi Party was today served a notice of Rs 30 crore by the Income Tax department over the donations received by it, a move Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal dubbed as the “height of political vendetta”.”In the history of India, all donations to a political party have been declared illegal. All these were accounted for and shown in books of accounts. This is a height of political vendetta,” Kejriwal tweeted. Income Tax Department sources said the notice was issued by the assessing officer under section 156 (notice of demand). They said it was issued in the “normal course”, where…