(ET) The decision by Indian motor-fuel companies to revise prices everyday wouldn’t financially hurt retailers, state-run Hindustan Petroleum said Monday, seeking to address concerns that the move would inflate administrative costs for the dealers. Executives at state-run oil companies plan to meet petrol pump dealers Tuesday to explain the benefits of daily price revision. Dealers are protesting the decision to daily revise the prices of petrol and diesel from June 16, arguing that filling stations would incur additional costs in implementing the changes, and such frequent price fluctuations could dent their profit. At present, companies change prices fortnightly across the…
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(PTI) The Centre is committed to fast tracking the development initiatives in the northeastern region, especially in border areas, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. Addressing a meeting of the chief ministers of the four northeastern states which share border with Myanmar, Singh said the region is immensely rich in human and natural resources and its ethnic and linguistic diversities enrich India’s cultural heritage. “Our government is committed to fast tracking of development in the northeastern region. Work on road and rail network extension is going on. We want to extend these networks to border areas,” he said in his opening…
(PTI) Embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will become Pakistan’s first sitting premier to depose before a Joint Investigation Team probing the high-profile Panamagate graft case when he appears before it on Thursday. The unprecedented development will make Sharif the first incumbent to appear before such a panel, let alone one probing allegations of financial irregularities or fraud against nearly his entire family, going back three generations, Dawn newspaper reported. Joint Investigation Team (JIT) chief Wajid Zia, in a letter dated Saturday, asked the prime minister to appear before the six-member probe team at 11:00 AM (11:30 IST) on June 15…
(LiveMint) Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said the idea of Universal Basic Income proposed in the Economic Survey 2016-17 may not be politically feasible in today’s India. Inaugurating a one-week teachers’ workshop on Indian economy at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Jaitley said this year, the survey sparked an important debate on subsidies. “Should we put money into the bank accounts (of the poor) as we are intending to do at the moment, or should we substitute the entire set of subsidies and instead to a defined section below a certain poverty line, we give them a universal…
(ANI) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti will be appearing before the Income Tax department on Monday, in connection with the money laundering case registered against her. Earlier on June 6, the IT department issued a show cause notice for penalty to Bharti owing to absence during the interrogation procedure, and was fined Rs. 10,000 for the same. Prior to this, Bharti and her husband were summoned by the IT department in connection with a ‘benami’ assets case. The summons were issued days after the arrest of Bharti’s Chartered Accountant (CA) Rakesh Agrawal, in connection…
(The Tribune) Former Chief Minister Harish Rawat today accused the BJP government in Uttarakhand of presenting a “cut-copy-paste budget” by just renaming many schemes launched during its rule. He also described the budget as thoughtless, visionless and intentionless.Rawat said the BJP government shortly after assuming power had already taxed people on several counts whether it was through hiking electricity and water charges or though introduction of cess on various commodities. “It is a myth that this budget is taxless whereas the state government has already taxed the people of the state to the tune of Rs 1,300 crore before even presenting…
(Nagaland Post) Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu along with Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and state’s Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Kamlung Mossang on Sunday launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) for Arunachal Pradesh in a function at State Banquet Hall. Expressing gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for launching the people-oriented scheme, Khandu said the scheme would benefit Arunachal Pradesh immensely as more than half of the population, especially in the rural areas, still use firewood for cooking purposes and hence indirectly impacts the state’s rich forest cover. On June 2nd Union MoS (Independent…
(AT) ईवीएम टेपरिंग विवाद के बाद अब अदालतों की तरह ही चुनाव आयोग को भी अवमानना की कार्रवाई का अधिकार चाहिए. यानी चुनाव आयोग जैसी संवैधानिक संस्था की मर्यादा का उल्लंघन करने और आयोग को खिलाफ अनाप-शनाप बोलने वालों पर अवमानना की कार्रवाई के अधिकार की मांग की गई है. आयोग ने कानून मंत्रालय को इस बाबत लिखा है. अपने संवैधानिक अधिकारों को लेकर अब तक लगभग सन्तुष्ट चुनाव आयोग ने परिस्थितियों के मद्देनजर यह पत्र सरकार को लिखा है ताकि लोग संवैधानिक संस्थाओं पर बेबुनियादी आरोप लगाकर उनकी छवि खराब न करें. हाल के दिनों में खासकर विपक्षी पार्टियों…
(PTI) BJP president Amit Shah has postponed his visit to Arunachal Pradesh due to start today and the party is likely to defer its national executive meeting scheduled for July 15-16 as it works to finalise a candidate for the Presidential election. Mr Shah is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior leaders to discuss president election. Mr Shah’s presence in the capital is required as the BJP is likely to begin the process of finalising the name of its presidential nominee any time now, a party leader was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.…
(AU) पेट्रोल और डीजल की होम डिलीवरी के लिए पेट्रोलियम एवं प्राकृतिक गैस मंत्रालय पिछले कई महीनों से होमवर्क कर रहा है। इस दिशा में काफी खोज-बीन हो चुकी है। उम्मीद है कि इस योजना का पायलट परीक्षण अगले महीने से शुरू हो जाए। यह जानकारी मंत्रालय के वरिष्ठ आधिकारिक सूत्रों से मिली है।उल्लेखनीय है कि पेट्रोल पंपों पर लगने वाली लाइनों से निजात दिलाने तथा दूर-दराज के इलाकों में आसानी से पेट्रोल-डीजल की पहुंच सुनिश्चित करने के लिए सरकार इन ईंधनों की होम डिलीवरी की योजना बना रही है। इससे पहले सरकार पेट्रोल और डीजल की कीमतें रोज तय…