(PTI) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said his government was working on the principle of “sabka saath sabka vikas” to help make the country free of all social evils by 2022. “The state government is working on the principle of sabka saath sabka vikas on the lines of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to free the country of all problems by 2022,” Adityanath said at an event in Lucknow. “The New India will be free of poverty, corruption, communalism and casteism… It will be Ram Rajya,” the CM said. Asked if he would realize the dream of his mentor and guru Mahant…
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(PTI) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) today said it would examine at 2 PM today the Delhi government’s decision to roll out odd-even car rationing scheme for five days starting from November 13. The AAP government had yesterday announced introduction of the odd-even scheme as part of a Graded Response Plan to tackle the alarming pollution situation in the national capital. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the Delhi government to submit before it the details of the ambient air quality during the earlier implementation of the odd-even scheme. The Green panel directed the counsel appearing for the…
(ET) Provident fund subscribers are likely to get a lower rate of interest on their retirement corpus this fiscal year, but a senior official said the total returns would be on a par with or more than last time as they stand to gain from the fund’s move to unitise its equity investment. The central board of trustees of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation will meet on November 23 to consider an 8.5 per cent interest rate for fiscal 2017-18, the official saidLast year, the fund had paid 8.65 per cent . At the meeting, the board will also give its…
(Hindustan) अगला आम बजट भी एक फरवरी को ही पेश किया जाएगा। पिछले साल शुरू हुई इस परंपरा के तहत वित्त मंत्री अरुण जेटली पांचवीं बार आम बजट पेश करेंगे। ऐसी अटकलें लगाई जा रही थी कि इस बार बजट की तारीख को जनवरी में किया जा सकता है। मगर एक वरिष्ठ अधिकारी ने तमाम अटकलों पर विराम लगा दिया है। 2016 में बदला है नियम 2019 के लोकसभा चुनावों से पहले यह एनडीए का आखिरी बजट होगा। पिछले साल 2016 में केंद्र सरकार ने आम बजट की तारीख को महीने के आखिरी से बदलकर फरवरी माह के पहले दिन…
(Zee News) Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said entrepreneurship is going to be a strength of the Indian economy as jobs in the public as well as organised private sectors are not enough for the country`s huge working population.”The strength of the Indian economy is going to be entrepreneurship. There is relevance of both skilling and entrepreneurship in India. In the government, both at Centre and the states, as also public sector enterprises, there is limited capacity of job creation,” Jaitley said. He was speaking at the National Entrepreneurship Awards 2017 event held on the occasion of the…
(AU) प्रधानमंत्री के आर्थिक सलाहकार परिषद के अध्यक्ष एवं नीति आयोग के सदस्य बिबेक देबराय ने कहा है कि भ्रष्टाचार को खत्म करना और काले धन पर रोक लगाना रातोंरात नहीं हो सकता है लेकिन इसके लिए एक प्रक्रिया शुरू हो चुकी है और इसके अच्छे नतीजे सामने आ रहे हैं। जो इसकी आलोचना कर रहे हैं वे माने बैठे हैं कि यह सभी रोगों का इलाज है, लेकिन सरकार ने कभी यह दावा नहीं किया। प्रख्यात अर्थशास्त्री देबराय ने कहा कि नोटबंदी के बाद भ्रष्टाचार के खिलाफ किए गए उपायों के कारण ही बेनामी संपत्तियां जब्त की जा रही हैं।…
(FE) The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council could bring down the tax rate on as many as 140 items from the highest slab of 28% as it meets in Guwahati on Friday, leaving only 40-odd items in this category, according to government officials. The items most likely to see a lower rate include sanitaryware, detergents, furniture, electrical switches, and plastic and ceramic pipes, among others. The council will deliberate on a key proposal made by a group of state finance ministers (GoM) which called for allowing all taxpayers to file returns quarterly even as they pay taxes on a…
(AU) दिल्ली-एनसीआर में स्मॉग का कहर जारी है। दिल्ली-एनसीआर में जहरीली हवा के कारण अगले 48 घंटे तक का आपातकाल (एयर इमरजेंसी) घोषित कर दिया गया है। राष्ट्रीय राजधानी में पीएम 2.5 और पीएम 10 का स्तर अभी भी सामान्य सीमा से कई गुना ज्यादा है जिससे प्रदूषित हवा में सांस लेने को मजबूर लोगों को कई तरह की स्वास्थ्य समस्याओं से जूझना पड़ रहा है। विजिबिलिटी इतनी कम हो गई है कि 10 मीटर तक भी दिखाई नहीं दे रहा है। विजिबिलिटी ने गाड़ियों की रफ्तार पर ब्रेक लगा दिया है। लगातार हादसे हो रहे हैं। बुधवार को धुंध की वजह से यमुना…
(FE) The Narendra Modi government’s flagship Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), which has provided more than 3 crore liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections to poor households over the last one and a half years, has had a multiplier effect on the manufacturers of equipment such as cylinders, pressure regulators, stoves and tubing — most of which fall in the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) segment. The number of cylinder makers across the country in 2014-15 was 102, which has gone up to 146 in 2016-17 and this industry’s turnover has surged from Rs 3,491 crore to Rs 5,258 crore during the…
Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) registered 21% growth in net sales revenue which stood at Rs. 13,442 Crore for the second quarter of FY17-18 (Q2FY18) as against Rs. 11,080 in CPLY. SAIL’s emphasis on increasing the share of high value products in its basket has begun to positively influence revenue earnings. SAIL recorded 4% growth in domestic sales in H1FY18 (Apr-Sept’17) with 21% improvement in sales of high value products like Cold Rolled and galvanized products. There has also been a sizeable 30% improvement in sales of railway products during H1 FY18. Registering positive EBITDA for the sixth consecutive…