(PTI) Now senior citizens will have the option to avail either the full concession provided to them on rail tickets or half of it. The Railways is exploring ways to reduce the Rs 1,300 crore subsidy burden in the senior citizen category. The new system will be operationalised shortly after upgrading the ticketing software. The Railways bears 43 per cent of the cost of train fare even as the state-run transporter incurs a loss of about Rs 30,000 crore a year in subsidising passenger fares out of which Rs 1,600 crore is for concessional fares. Though there are many categories…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(AT) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी और विश्व की अन्य शीर्ष अर्थव्यवस्था वाले देशों के नेता शुक्रवार को हैम्बर्ग में दो दिवसीय जी-20 शिखर सम्मेलन के लिए एकत्रित होंगे तो आतंकवाद से मुकाबला, जलवायु परिवर्तन और विश्व व्यापार जैसे मुद्दे चर्चा के केंद्र में होंगे. पीएम मोदी इस सम्मेलन में हिस्सा लेने के लिए अपने तीन दिवसीय दिवसीय इजरायली दौरे को समाप्त कर आज शाम जर्मनी के लिए रवाना हो गए. शी चिनफिंग और मोदी की नहीं होगी बात सिक्किम में भारत और चीन की सेनाओं के बीच गतिरोध की पृष्ठभूमि में इस सम्मेलन से इतर प्रधानमंत्री मोदी और चीन के राष्ट्रपति…
BIO-ENERGY URJA UTSAV – INAUGURAL CEREMONY National Bio-Energy Conference and Exhibition in Pune Under the aegis of the Government of India, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Oil Marketing Companies viz. HPCL, BPCL & IOCL in association with Maratha Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA), and National Yuva Co-operative Society (NYCS) are organizing a conference and exhibition titled ‘Bio-Energy Urja Utsav’ in Pune at Balewadi Sports Complex on 7th & 8th July, 2017. Hon’ble Minister of State, P&NG along with Hon’ble Union Minister Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister from Govt. of Maharashtra, Hon’ble MPs, MLAs and other dignitaries will grace…
(Tribune) Patting Chief Minister TS Rawat for taking stern measures to curb corruption in the mining sector, state BJP chief Ajay Bhatt today said zero tolerance towards corruption by the Chief Minister had resulted in the Department of Mining earning a total revenue of Rs 40.46 crore from the districts of Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital in April, May and June this year. Bhatt said in Haridwar, the revenue earned through mining in April, May and June was Rs 65,54,300 in 2016 whereas under the BJP rule this year, it was Rs 34,18,74,252. “The increase this year in comparison…
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is being implemented across the country, particularly, in States having historical deficit of rural roads (Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, J&K and Utttrakhand ) as never before. The pace of construction of PMGSY roads reached a 7 year high of 130 kms per day in 2016-17 as against an average of 73 kms during the period 2011 to 2014. In the present financial year 2017-18, the target is to construct 57,000 kms of PMGSY roads, at an average per day rate of 156 kms and to provide…
(TOI) State-run ONGC has rescinded the initial pacts for outsourcing production from its ageing fields in Gujarat and Assam to international service providers Schlumberger and Halliburton after the oil ministry objected to the contract being handed over without bidding. Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) had on December 7 last year signed Summary of Understanding (SoU) to give its Kalol field in Gujarat to Halliburton and Gelekifield in Assam to Schlumberger to help in raising production above the current baseline output. Though the agreements were signed in presence of Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan during the bi-annual Petrotech Conference, the ministry felt it was not proper to give away such contracts on nomination basis, sources privy to the development…
(MP) Buoyant over the success of ‘Give It Up’ LPG subsidy scheme, the Ministry of Railways has also decided to launch similar scheme for giving up the subsidy being paid by the Indian Railways for a passenger’s journey. According to a senior official, the ministry is planning to roll out the scheme from August. So from the next month, while booking a train ticket, a passenger would get options to opt out the subsidy being provided by the Ministry of Railways. “The travellers would get the option to either give it up the 100 per cent of the subsidy or…
(TIE) THE J&K ASSEMBLY Wednesday passed a resolution to pave the way for the implementation of GST, with Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu saying that constitutional safeguards would be put in place to protect the special status of the state in the new tax regime. “There would be enough safeguards to the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir,” Drabu said in his reply on the second day of heated debates on GST in the state assembly. Following the passage of the resolution in the assembly, the J&K Cabinet met and approved the implementation of GST. This will now be forwarded to the…
(AU) तिहाड़ जेल से निकलकर पिछले एक साल से पैरोल पर बाहर निकले सहारा प्रमुख सुब्रत रॉय सहारा को सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने फिर से राहत दे दी है। कोर्ट ने कहा है कि सुब्रत राय 20 जुलाई तक 552 करोड़ रुपये जमा करें। अगर वो ऐसा नहीं करते हैं तो एक तरफ उनको वापस तिहाड़ जेल जाना होगा और दूसरी तरफ कोर्ट मुंबई के पास लोनावला में स्थित ऐंबी वैली को नीलाम करने की तैयारी शुरू कर देगी। इससे पहले 19 जून को सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने सहारा प्रमुख सुब्रत राय सहारा को 10 दिनों के भीतर 709.82 करोड़ रुपये सहारा-सेबी खाते में जमा करने के…
(TIE) “THIS IS a marriage really made in heaven and we are implementing it here on Earth,” declared Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the golden and indigo-hued ambassador’s hall at the historic King David Hotel here. Modi laughed. Minutes later, India and Israel decided to elevate their relationship to a “strategic partnership”, after negotiations and last-minute changes in the joint statement. It was apt that the two leaders chose the hotel, where 91 people were killed in a bomb attack in 1946, to flag terrorism in their short statements. “India and Israel live in complex geographies. We are aware…