(FE) Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office, Jitendra Singh on Friday said Uttar Pradesh civic poll results show that the Indian public trusts Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The Indian public has time and again shown support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies and the BJP government formed under his supervision in Uttar Pradesh,” Singh told reporters here, adding that the Prime Minister’s graph is going higher with every passing year. BJP is currently leading the counting of votes in the Uttar Pradesh civic polls by a huge margin. Assured of another win of BJP in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections, Singh said…
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(PTI) Ruling BJP swept the Uttar Pradesh civic polls bagging nine of the ten mayoral seats for which results were declared till evening today while leading in six others where the counting was in progress. Opposition Congress again fared poorly, including in its bastion of Amethi, while the BSP had some reason to cheer as its candidate snatched the Aligarh mayoral seat, a traditional BJP stronghold. In what was being dubbed as Yogi Adityanath’s first electoral test after he became the chief minister, the BJP bagged several prestigious mayoral seats including Ayodhya, Varanasi, Lucknow, Gorakhpur and was leading in several others.…
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has entered into 2 Bilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) during the month of November, 2017. These Agreements are the first ever Bilateral APAs with The Netherlands. With the signing of these Agreements, the total number of APAs entered into by the CBDT has gone up to 186. This includes 171 Unilateral APAs and 15 Bilateral APAs. These two APAs pertain to the Electronics and Technology sectors of the economy. The international transactions covered in these agreements include Distribution, Provision of Marketing Support Services, Provision of Business Support Services, etc. The APA provisions were…
(LiveMint) BJP on Friday surged ahead of its rivals, leading on 14 of the 16 mayoral seats in Uttar Pradesh civic polls 2017 that were held in three phases. In the remaining two places, the BSP was leading, according to trends from these seats in the first four hours of counting of votes for all the 652 urban local bodies that began at 8am.The civic polls are being seen as a referendum of Yogi Adityanath government’s performance in the past seven months. Polling was held for 16 nagar nigams, 198 nagar palika parishads and 438 nagar panchayats with an average…
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi yesterday has approved setting up of National Nutrition Mission (NNM) with a three year budget of Rs.9046.17 crore commencing from 2017-18. Features: The NNM, as an apex body, will monitor, supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition related interventions across the Ministries. The proposal consists of mapping of various Schemes contributing towards addressing malnutrition introducing a very robust convergence mechanism ICT based Real Time Monitoring system incentivizing States/UTs for meeting the targets incentivizing Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) for using IT based tools eliminating registers used by AWWs introducing measurement of height of…
Shri Upendra Prasad Singh, IAS (OR:85) assumed the charge of Secretary Ministry of Water Resources, River Development in New Delhi today. He will also hold additional charge of CEO, National Mission for Clean Ganga. Shri Singh who originally hails from Bihar is a mechanical engineer-turned IAS. He has served in various Ministries such as Ministry of Steel, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and also as MD of Oil India Ltd. Shri Singh succeeds Dr. Amarjit Singh, IAS (GJ:82) who superannuated on November 30, 2017.
(DNA) The result of the Uttar Pradesh civil polls on Friday will have a bearing on the forthcoming Gujarat Assembly elections and Lok Sabha polls 2019. The civil polls were held for over 198 nagar palika parishads (municpal council), 438 muncipal boards (nagar panchayats) and 16 municipal corporation (nagar nigams) in 75 districts. Around 3.3 crore have exercised their voting rights with 79,113 candidates. This poll is a big test for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath after an emphatic win during Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Now, the result of civil polls will reveal whether his hardline Hindutva image has gone down…
(HT) गांधीनगर पुलिस ने बगैर अनुमति मनसा में रैली आयोजित कर कानून तोड़ने और शांति में खलल डालने के लिए पाटीदार नेता हार्दिक पटेल और छह अन्य के खिलाफ मामला दर्ज किया है। गांधीनगर के पुलिस अधीक्षक, वीरेंद्र सिंह यादव ने मीडिया से कहा, ‘हमने हार्दिक पटेल, मनसा रैली के आयोजक उमिया डेकोरेटर्स के मालिक धर्मेश पटेल, और पांच अन्य के खिलाफ जिला प्रशासन से अनुमति के बगैर रैली आयोजित करने के लिए मामला दर्ज किया है।’ पुलिस ने हार्दिक पटेल और अन्य के खिलाफ भारतीय दंड संहिता की धारा 188 के तहत प्रशासनिक आदेश को न मानने के लिए मामला…
State Run oil explorer ONGC has distanced itself from “any plan” to go to court in the matter of off loading its stakes in 11 hydrocarbon blocks as planned by Directorate General of Hydrocarbon (DGH). Some media reports earlier suggested that ONGC may take some legal option against DGH, if it goes ahead with its plan to sell 60% stake in 15 hydrocarbon blocks, of which 11 are of ONGC and 4 of Oil India. Soon after a Mint report that quoted a 2 top officials for taking legal action, ONGC tweeted- “ONGC makes clear tht news abt farming out…
(NDTV) Former US President Barack Obama, who is in Delhi today for a townhall for the Obama Foundation, is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the visit. The two leaders had developed a warm rapport during Mr Obama’s tenure as the President. In a Facebook message, Mr Obama has said, “I will be conducting a townhall with young leaders of India who can share with me some of the works they are trying to do to make communities better and also answer questions on how Obama Foundation can help.” At the townhall, scheduled to be held at 3:45 PM…