With a view to promote and create awareness about the National Pension System (NPS) and improve the quality of services provided to the subscribers, PFRDA is observing NPS fortnight from 27th June, 2017 to 11th July, 2017 successfully. Keeping in view the demand raised by Government Nodal Offices and also benefits to the NPS subscribers, PFRDA has decided to extend the NPS Service Fortnight from 11th July, 2017 to 21st July 2017. During this extended period also all the nodal offices, Pay and Account Offices and DDOs under the Central and State Governments, Points of Presence/ banks/ aggregators/ banking correspondents etc. will be involved…
Author: Aruna Sharma
Shri Amit Shah’s speech at Panna Pramukh Sammelan, Mahuva, Surat, Gujarat, 09.07.2017
(PTI) Reliance Industries has pulled out of the last oil block it held in Peru, trimming its overseas assets to just two properties in Myanmar. The billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led firm had in 2007 set up Reliance Exploration and Production (REP) DMCC primarily for acquiring overseas assets. It had steadily acquired 16 conventional oil and gas assets, including four in Peru, three in Yemen (one producing and two exploratory), two each in Oman, Kurdistan and Colombia and one each in East Timor and Australia. It last bagged two oil and gas exploration blocks in Myanmar in 2014. But the company slowly…
(DJ) राज्यपालों की कथित दखलंदाजी और राजनीतिक भूमिका को लेकर सामने आ रहे विवादों को विपक्षी दलों ने संसद के मानसून सत्र में बड़ा सियासी मुद्दा बनाने की तैयारी कर ली है। इस मुद्दे को गरमाने के लिए विपक्षी खेमे की ओर से राज्यपाल पद को ही खत्म करने की मांग करने से भी परहेज नहीं किया जाएगा। मणिपुर से लेकर पुड्डुचेरी, पश्चिम बंगाल से लेकर गोवा और त्रिपुरा से लेकर दिल्ली के राजभवन और वहां की सरकारों के बीच जारी खींचतान के वाकयों का हवाला देकर संसद में विपक्ष इसे संघीय ढांचे पर प्रहार बताएगा। राज्यपालों की भूमिका पर…
(PTI) ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), has got a two-year extension to explore a Vietnamese oil block in the contested waters of the South China Sea. This is the fifth extension for OVL to explore Block-128, the licence for which is now valid till June 15, 2019, sources said on condition of anonymity as the information is not public yet. While India wants to maintain its strategic interest in the South China Sea, Vietnam wants an Indian firm to counter China’s interventions in the contested waters. Sources said OVL had in May…
(TOI) PM Narendra Modi will meet top officials of all states and union territories on Monday at a conference to take states on board for expediting development work as less than two years remain for the next Lok Sabha elections. Soon after coming back from his foreign visit, Modi plunged into work and had a detailed discussion with key officials for over an hour on Sunday about the conference on ‘States as Drivers for Transforming India’. The PM will be present in the meeting, to be attended by chief secretaries and other officials of all states and UTs. State officials are crucial for successful…
(DJ) वित्त वर्ष 2017-18 के लिए सरकारी सॉवरेन गोल्ड बॉन्ड की पहली खेप आज लॉन्च होगी। बॉन्ड की बिक्री बैंकों और स्टॉक होल्डिंग कार्पोरेशन ऑफ इंडिया लिमिटेड के जरिए की जाएगी। साथ ही इसे डाकघर और स्टॉक एक्सचेंजों के जरिए भी खरीदा जा सकता है। बीते वित्त वर्ष एसजीबी स्कीम 2016-17 की सीरीज IV के लिए सब्सक्रिप्शन 27 फरवरी से 3 मार्च 2017 तक खुली रही थी। आवेदनकर्ताओं को 17 मार्च 2017 को बॉन्ड पेपर जारी किये गए थे। सॉवरेन गोल्ड बॉन्ड फिजिकल गोल्ड में निवेश करने का विकल्प है। इस स्कीम को पिछले वर्ष नवंबर में लॉन्च किया गया…
(ABP News) Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday held meeting with the US Secretary of State and Energy Ministers around the world at the opening ceremony of 22nd World Petroleum Congress (WPC) International Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. Pradhan, who will be in Istanbul till July 12, represented India at the WPC International Conference. Earlier, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas informed that Pradhan will hold several bilateral meetings with petroleum ministers of other countries. “During the conference, Pradhan will chair a ministerial session on the subject ‘Current Economic Strategies in Indian Oil and…
(AT) बिहार के उप मुख्यमंत्री तेजस्वी यादव के खिलाफ सीबीआई की तरफ से एफआईआर दर्ज कराए जाने के बाद से बीजेपी और दूसरे विपक्षी दल उन्हें मंत्रिमंडल से हटाने की मांग कर रहे हैं. बिहार के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री जीतनराम मांझी ने अब इस मामले में नीतीश कुमार की चुप्पी पर कड़ा बयान दिया है. मांझी ने कहा, मुझे नीतीश कुमार ने पांच दिनों के भीतर मंत्रिमंडल से बाहर का रास्ता दिखा दिया था, तो फिर तेजस्वी यादव को क्यों बाहर नहीं कर रहें हैं. दरअसल वर्ष 2005 में जीतनराम मांझी नीतीश कुमार के मंत्रिमंडल में शामिल हुए थे. मांझी पर 90 के…
(FE) The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has given Indian Railways an ambitious target to increase the transporter’s non-fare revenue (NFR) to 15% of the total receipts in the financial year 2017-18. To meet the target, the railways will have to earn Rs 28,350 crore as NFR in the current fiscal, almost three times the level achieved in the last financial year. Though NFR increased 70% in 2016-17 to Rs 10,181 crore, its share was still just 6.17% of the total earnings. During 2015-16, NFR constituted only 3.62% of the total revenue. The PMO has identified stepped-up advertising the of government-sponsored programmes and…