(PTI) The Army on Friday killed six militants near the Line of Control (LoC) as it foiled fifth infiltration bid from Pakistan into Kashmir in three days, raising to 12 the total number of infiltrators gunned down during this period. The six militants were killed in Uri sector during a counter-infiltration operation launched on Friday after the troops detected movement of ultras trying to sneak into the valley, an Army official said With this operation, the total number of infiltrating militants killed over the last three days in various sectors has gone up to 12. A defence spokesman had on Thursday…
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(Tribune) Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prakash Pant today cited the ongoing Char Dham yatra and incomplete construction work as the reasons behind the Trivendra Singh government’s decision not to hold the Budget session at Gairsain.Pant said, “It was not practical to take the entire establishment to Gairsain for conducting the proceedings of the House when the Char Dham yatra was already on,” he said in his reply to the Opposition’s charge of dishonouring the resolution on holding the Budget session in Gairsain, passed last year, when the Congress government was in power.Pant raised doubts over the intentions of the previous Congress…
(FE) Finance minister Arun Jaitley will review the performance of public sector banks (PSBs) on June 12 here, amid mounting pressure to resolve the vexed issue of massive toxic assets that have eroded the banks’ ability to lend, hurting investments. Major issues to be discussed in the meeting include non-performing assets (NPAs) of PSBs, status of credit to small and medium enterprises, StandUp India (launched to support entrepreneurship among women and Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe communities) and Mudra Yojana (through which the government provides funding to the non-corporate small business sector). Non-performing assets reached nine per cent of total advances…
(DC) Petrol and fuel prices will undergo daily revision by state-run oil marketing companies (OMC) from June 16. A pilot project of daily revision of oil prices has already been implemented in Udaipur, Jamshedpur, Vishakhapatnam, Chandigarh and Puducherry from May 1. “After its successful implementation, public sector oil companies have now decided to start daily revision in retail selling prices of petrol and diesel in the entire country with effect from 16th June, 2017,” Indian Oil said. At present, the state-run OMCs – Indian oil, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) revise retail fuel prices on a fortnightly basis…
(TH) BSES, a joint venture between Reliance Infrastructure and the Delhi government, and the central public sector undertaking, NTPC, have agreed for another round of liquidation of dues, according three officials aware of the decision. “NTPC had issued a fresh regulation notice to BSES Yamuna for restricting power supply from NTPC’s joint venture company Aravali Power Company Ltd (APCPL) in March 2017,” a government official told BusinessLine. After power supply to BSES was restricted, a resolution was reached to liquidate dues and pay the outstanding amount in tranches, another official aware of negotiations between the two parties said. NTPC owns…
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(AU) ईरान में चाबहार बंदरगाह को विकसित करने में लगे भारत को पश्चिमी देशों की कंपनियां निर्माण सामग्री मुहैया कराने से हिचक रही हैं। उन्हें डर है कि ट्रंप प्रशासन फिर से ईरान पर प्रतिबंध लगा सकता है। ऐसे में निवेश करना उनके लिए जोखिम भरा हो सकता है।पिछले साल प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के ईरान दौरे के समय भारत और ईरान के बीच चाबहार समझौता हुआ था। चाबहार के जरिए अफगानिस्तान पहुंचने के लिए भारत को पाकिस्तान के सहारे की जरूरत नहीं रह जाएगी। 2015 में अमेरिका के ईरान पर प्रतिबंध हटाने के बाद भारत ने 2016 में इस पोर्ट…
(ET) To address shortage of gas which is impeding the commissioning the fourth plant of the Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corporation Limited (BVFCL), Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal sought the intervention of the Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan and requested him to use his good office to release required natural gas to the plant. In a telephonic request made to the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Chief Minister Sonowal said that because of the non-availability of natural gas, the fourth plant which was set up involving an outlay of Rs. 4500 crore could…
(PTI) State-owned fuel retailer Hindustan PetroleumBSE 0.13 % has received environment clearance for expansion of Ramanmandi Bahadurgarh Petroleum Products Pipeline (RBPL), whose project cost is Rs 230 crore. Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) operates a 243 km long cross-country pipeline RBPL for transportation of various petroleum products. Its existing capacity is 4.71 million tonnes per annum and the company has proposed to enhance up to 8 million tonnes per annum for transportation of additional petroleum products. This pipeline is catering to the demand of Bahadurgarh and other northern areas via Bathinda-based Guru Gobind Singh Refinery in Punjab.
(PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the validity of the law making Aadhaar mandatory for allotment of PAN and filing of Income Tax(IT) returns but exempted those without it for now until the larger privacy issue is decided. In effect, those who possess an Aadhaar card must link it to their Permanent Account Number(PAN) card and those who have enrolled and not yet got their Aadhaar card are also exempted from mandatory linkage and the penalising invalidation of their PANs if they don’t link it. The apex court while upholding the validity of a fresh provision in the Income…