(AU) बुधवार को जारी ताजा सर्वे में कहा गया कि प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी अब भी भारतीय राजनीति में सबसे लोकप्रिय नेता हैं। ये नवीनतम सर्वे भारत में 2464 उत्तरदायी के बीच किए गए। सर्वे इस साल 21 फरवरी और 10 मार्च के बीच कराए गए थे। सर्वे में 88 फीसदी लोगों ने मोदी को सबसे लोकप्रिय नेता माना जबकि उनसे 30 अंक कम (58 फीसदी) राहुल गांधी दूसरे लोकप्रिय नेता हैं। वहीं कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष सोनिया गांधी तीसरे स्थान पर हैं, जिन्हें मोदी से 31 अंक कम मिले। मोदी की लोकप्रियता की तुलना में दिल्ली के मुख्यमंत्री अरविंद केजरीवाल 49 अंक (37 फीसदी) नीचे हैं।…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(ET) Ever since the government launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) in May 2016, non-discretionary inflation, which is essentially food fuel and housing inflation, has almost halved from 6.44% in May’16 to 3.05% in October’17 “ While the crash in food prices has been one of the reasons, we believe such decline is also fueled by the big impetus that has been given to PMUY that almost coincided with the beginning of such decline (launched in May 2016)” said S K Ghosh, group chief economic advisor, State Bank of India. PMUY aims at empowering poor women who are forced…
(PTI) President Ram Nath Kovind today said that Jharkhand is progressing fast and is ahead of many other states in ease of doing business. Kovind, who was chief guest at the programme celebrating the 17th foundation day of Jharkhand, thanked former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for founding Jharkhand.”Jharkhand is progressing fast and looking at its development and the new energy and enthusiasm in the people present here, I bow in respect and thank the former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who had taken a path-breaking decision of founding Jharkhand as a new state.” The president said it is “a matter…
(AU) गुजरात विधानसभा चुनाव नया मोड़ लेता जा रहा है। गुजरात के युवा दलित नेता जिग्नेश मेवानी ने दिल्ली में प्रेस कांफ्रेस कर राज्य की मौजूदा सरकार पर निशाना साधते हुए कहा कि वह अपने विरोधियों को बदनाम करने के लिए साजिश रच रही है और जानबूझकर सीडी जैसी चीजें सामने लाई जा रही हैं। प्रेस कांफ्रेंस में उन्होंने बताया कि विकास का मॉडल गलत है। जिग्नेश ने इस संबंधा में भाजपा को एक खुला खत भी लिखा। खत में उन्होंने पिछले दिनों वायरल हुई पाटीदार नेता हार्दिक पटेल की सीडी को राजनीति से प्रेरित बताया और इसे फर्जी करार दिया। उन्होंने भाजपा पर निशाना…
(PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar today resolved to put in “sustained efforts” to check pollution and discussed measures to ensure smog does not envelop the national capital in the winter of 2018. Kejriwal held a nearly 90-minute meeting at Khattar’s residence here and it primarily centred around air pollution and stubble burning that is a major contributory factor to smog, which has engulfed the national capital and parts of Haryana and Punjab over the past nearly two weeks. A joint statement was issued after the meeting, in which their environment ministers and other…
The Government of India has been making concerted efforts in line with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s Commitment at COP 21, to reduce vehicular emissions and improve fuel efficiency with an aim to reduce the carbon footprints and keep a healthy environment. India has followed the regulatory pathway for fuel quality and vehicle emissions standards termed as Bharat Stage (BS). The Ministry of Petroleum and natural Gas has successfully introduced the BS-IV grade transportation fuels across the country w.e.f April 1st 2017. With the launch of BS-IV grade fuel, a new era of clean transportation fuels has begun which will benefit all…
(NDTV) Amarinder Singh, Punjab Chief Minister, has refused to meet his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, who had tweeted him Tuesday morning requesting an appointment to discuss the deadly smog that has enveloped Delhi for more than a week. Mr Singh has reiterated his stand that a meeting will be of no use and said he does not have “the same luxury of time” as Mr Kejriwal. Arvind Kejriwal has blamed the burning of crop stubble by farmers in neighbouring Punjab and Haryana as the major cause of the spiking pollution in Delhi. “Sir, I am coming to Chandigarh on Wed to meet Haryana CM.…
(ET) Solar developers are up in arms over Tamil Nadu’s decision not to pay for power they produce by achieving higher efficiencies, which they claim has already cost them over Rs 100 crore. In a memorandum to the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Co (Tangedco), the National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI) has protested its decision not to pay for the excess power generated by any solar plant which exceeds a capacity utilisation factor (CUF) of 19%. CUF is the ratio of the actual output from a solar plant to the maximum possible output from it under ideal conditions. Most…
(DJ) गुजरात में पहले चरण के चुनाव के लिए आज अधिसूचना जारी होने के साथ ही राज्य में चुनाव प्रक्रिया शुरू होगी। इसके साथ ही राज्य के कुल 33 जिलों में से 19 जिलों में पहले चरण के मतदान वाली 89 सीटों के लिये उम्मीदवार आज से नामांकन पत्र दाखिल कर सकेंगे। इस चरण के लिये नामांकन की अंतिम तारीख 21 नवंबर और नामांकन वापस लेने की समयसीमा 24 नवंबर तय की गयी है। दूसरे चरण में बाकी 93 सीटों पर चुनाव के लिये 20 नवंबर को अधिसूचना जारी की जायेगी। दूसरे चरण के लिये उम्मीदवार 20 से 27 नवंबर…
(ET) Reliance Industries (RIL) has prima-facie not complied with one clause of the government’s coal bed methane (CBM) marketing policy because it sold the gas it produced to its own unit after participating in auctions, the oil ministry has found in its preliminary assessment. RIL said it has abided by CBM pricing policy’s stated objective of discovering the best possible price that maximises state revenue and royalty, which was achieved by its participation in the transparent auctions conducted by CRISIL. Officials say the policy allows sale of CBM to an affiliate only if another buyer is not found but RIL…