(DC) It may take three weeks before operations can resume at the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited plant at Cherlapally, where a blast took place on September 14. The investigative authority— Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) has issued approvals to HPCL to clean its premises. Deputy chief controller of PESO Dr R. Venugopal said that samples from the plant were sent to the Government of India’s lab at Bangalore. “It may take two more months before we get the report. Based on the report we will take further action. We have not restored the licence of the HPCL plant. During investigation,…
Author: Aruna Sharma
The first US crude oil cargo of 1.6 million barrels bought by Indian Oil Corporation from the US was received at Paradip Port today. A sample of the crude was symbolically presented to Shri Sunjay Sudhir, Joint Secretary (International Cooperation) in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, by Shri Anish Aggarwal, Director (Pipelines), IndianOil. Shri Munu Mahawar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India; Ms. Katherine B Hadda, US Consul General in Hyderabad, Senior Officials from Ministry of External Affairs and IndianOil were also present at the ceremony. Calling it as a new chapter in the history…
(FE) Indian and Pakistan troops traded heavy fire on Monday on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. Police sources said heavy shelling and firing started between the two armies in Kerni area. “After the Pakistan Army resorted to unprovoked shelling and firing at Indian positions, Indian military retaliated strongly and effectively. “Shelling and firing exchanges are going on,” the sources added. Meanwhile, ANI reported three civilians are injured in Keri and Digwar areas of Poonch.
(PTI) BJP chief Amit Shah today accused three generations of the Congress party of having “insulted” Gujarat, as he virtually sounded the bugle for the Assembly polls in the state from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s native place. In a gesture loaded with symbolism, Mr Shah paid tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at his ancestral home in Karamsad with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and his deputy Nitin Patel in tow, before invoking icons of Gujarat, including Patel, Morarji Desai and Narendra Modi, to mount an offensive against the Congress. He also launched the ‘Gujarat Gaurav Yatra’ (March for Gujarat’s Honour). “Rahul Gandhi comes here…
(PTI) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today hinted that there is scope for lesser slabs under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) once there is revenue buoyancy. “We are in first 2-3 months (of GST implementation). We have almost by the day, space and scope for improvement. We have space for improvement and need for improvement to reduce compliance burden as far as small taxpayers are concerned,” he said. “We have space for improvement, eventually once we become revenue neutral, to think in terms of bigger reforms such as lesser slabs, but for that we have to become revenue neutral…,” he said at…
(AU) रिजर्व बैंक ऑफ इंडिया के पूर्व गवर्नर सी रंगराजन ने आने वाले महीनों में अर्थव्यवस्था में मजबूती की उम्मीद जताते हुए कहा कि बेहतर वार्षिक वृद्धि बनाए रखने के लिए अर्थव्यवस्था को तेजी से पटरी पर लाने की जरूरत है। इसके लिए सरकार को त्वरित उपाय करने पर उन्होंने जोर दिया है। एक कार्यक्रम के दौरान रंगराजन ने कहा कि, कुछ मायनों में यह कहा जा सकता है कि अर्थव्यवस्था अब गिरावट से उबर रही है, क्योंकि दो तिमाही के लिए वृद्धि दर 5.7 फीसदी पर बनी हुई है। उन्होंने कहा कि जीएसटी को लेकर समस्याएं खत्म हो सकती है। साथ ही…
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversary. “गांधी जयंती पर बापू को शत्-शत् नमन! I bow to beloved Bapu on Gandhi Jayanti. His noble ideals motivate millions across the world. जवानों एवं किसानों के प्रणेता एवं देश को कुशल नेतृत्व प्रदान करने वाले शास्त्री जी को नमन! Remembering Lal Bahadur Shastri ji on his Jayanti”, the Prime Minister said.
(PTI) A fresh wave of flood has hit Assam, submerging five districts and affecting over 78,000 people, an official said on Sunday. The north-eastern state, which has been recuperating after several rounds of floods this year, saw 306 acres of land submerged in the fresh wave. Around 16,000 animals have also been affected, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority official said. Rains across the state and in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya have caused flooding in Assam’s Lakhimpur, South Salmara, Goalpara, Hojai and Karbi Anglong. Some 86 villages in seven revenue circles have been affected by the fresh wave of…
(FE) Facing questions over the privacy and security of the Aadhaar systems in the Supreme Court, the government has decided to conduct an independent audit of all 50,000-odd Aadhaar enrolment centres and inspect them in person. Three independent auditors will assess if enrolment centres are adhering to UIDAI processes and guidelines, if the hardware and software deployed at the enrolment centres are as per UIDAI specifications and check if the enrolment centre is not involved in any involved in any corrupt practices and people are not being overcharged for Aadhaar services. Photographs of all staff at the enrolment centre and…
(FE) Today on the 148th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, India pays tribute to the Father of the Nation and organises cleanliness drives to promote ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, a flagship mission of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to make people aware about the advantages of cleanliness. The abhiyan completes its three years today. “Cleanliness is Godliness” had been the mantra of Mahatma Gandhi’s life. Mahatma Gandhi, in his lifetime, demonstrated, propagated and insisted for individual and community cleanliness. Following his footsteps, the Government of India, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, launched ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ on October 2, 2014 with…