(ET) The government will formulate a bold new policy this year to bring private capital and technology to substantially increase crude oil production in major oilfields such as Mumbai High that were given to state-run firms ONGC and Oil India Ltd without an auction or a production sharing contract. The new policy, in which private companies will be able to bid for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) contracts in line with best global practices, will be announced in the current fiscal year. It is based on oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s decision to regularly monitor each nominated field. That’s a major departure…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(Samachar Jagat) वित्तीय सेवा कंपनी स्टैंडर्ड चार्टर्ड की एक रपट के अनुसार माल एवं सेवा कर (जीएसटी) लागू होने से सभी सभी राज्यों का राजस्व सुधरेगा और उनकी आय में 350 अरब रुपए से 450 अरब रुपए तक की वृद्धि हो सकती है। वित्तीय कंपनी के एक विश्लेषण में कहा गया है कि चालू वित्त वर्ष में केंद्र और राज्यों का सम्मिलित घाटा जीडीपी के 6 प्रतिशत या उससे नीचे ही रहेगा। देशव्यापी नई जीएसटी कर व्यवस्था इस साल जुलाई से लागू करने का लक्ष्य है जिसमें केंद्रीय उत्पाद शुल्क और राज्य स्तर के वैट सहित अनेक अप्रत्यक्ष कर उसमें समाहित…
(Hindustan) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी चार देशों की अपनी छह दिन की यात्रा के दूसरे चरण में आज स्पेन की राजधानी पहुंचे। उनकी इस यात्रा का उद्देश्य इन देशों के साथ द्विपक्षीय आर्थिक संबंधों को बढ़ावा देना और भारत को बदलने के लिए वहां से और निवेश आकर्षित करना है। मोदी ने स्पेन की राजधानी पहुंचने के बाद ट्विटर पर अंग्रेजी और स्पेनिश में लिखा, स्पेन पहुंच गया जिसके साथ ही एक बेहद महत्वपूर्ण दौरे की शुरूआत की जिसका उददेश्य स्पेन के साथ आर्थिक एवं सांस्कृतिक संबंधों को बेहतर करना है। 1988 के बाद से यह किसी भारतीय प्रधानमंत्री का स्पेन…
(FE) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be visiting Ayodhya today. His visit comes a day after an CBI court in Lucknow framed charges against BJP stalwarts L K Advani, M M Joshi, Union minister Uma Bharti and other accused in connection with Babri Masjid demolition case. It has been learned that CM Adityanath will attend the the birth anniversary programme of Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas head Mahanat Nritya Gopal Das, according to Indian Express report. Das is one of the accused against whom charges were framed by the CBI court on Tuesday. Adityanath is likely to offer puja at…
(OTV) Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today stressed on adopting new strategies to reach out to the people of the State. He urged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders to work towards turning the youth into ambassadors of the government’s public welfare schemes while addressing hundreds of Youth Ambassador Monitors at the ‘New Odisha Youth Ambassador Meet’ here. Organised under the chairmanship of Bharatiya Yuva Jana Morcha (BYJM) president Tankadhar Tripathy at the State Headquarters, the meeting discussed various issues relating to youths and their aspirations. The youth ambassador monitors came from all 30 districts of the…
(FE) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon put into circulation currency notes in Re 1 denomination, it was revealed today. The Re 1 notes have been printed by the Government of India, the central bank revealed. These currency notes will be legal tender as provided in Coinage Act 2011. The circulation of these notes will in no way affect the fate of the previous currency in the same denomination. In fact, the existing currency notes in this denomination in circulation will continue to be legal tender. RBI statement revealed that the dimensions and paper composition of one rupee…
(PTI) The Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan has approached President Pranab Mukherjee seeking rehabilitation of those affected by the Sardar Sarovar project in Madhya Pradesh in line with a Supreme Court order. The Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan (BAA) is an umbrella body of various organisations working on issues relating to land acquisition. The delegation comprising BAA leaders including former Lok Sabha MP Hannan Mollah met Mukherjee yesterday and accused the BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government of “forcibly” trying to evict people living in the dam area before July 31. The delegation requested the president to direct the state government to provide alternative livelihood, respect the…
(PTI) Senior BJP leaders L K Advani, M M Joshi and Uma Bharti were today charged with criminal conspiracy in the 1992 Babri mosque demolition case by a special CBI court here. The court, which earlier rejected their discharge petition, framed charges against Advani (89), Joshi (83), Union minister Bharti (58) and three others under Section 120 (B) of the IPC (criminal conspiracy). The three others are the BJP’s Vinay Katiyar (62), VHP’s Vishnu Hari Dalmiya, who is in his late eighties, and one-time Hindutva firebrand Sadhvi Rithambara (53). The accused had argued against the framing of charges against them, asserting that…
(Energy Sector) GAIL India will invest.Rs 1,000 crore on the liquified natural gas terminal at the Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private (RGPPL) to make it an ‘all-weather’ port by 2019, said BC Tripathi, chairman, GAIL. RGPPL, the second avatar of the troubled Dabhol power project, is in the process of demerging the power plant and the LNG terminal to make the project financially more viable as the project continues to struggle to keep afloat even after a decade since banks and public sector units stepped in to revive it. “We will hold over 70% in the demerged LNG terminal and our…
(BS) Billionaire Mukesh Ambani has invested Rs 12,725 crore more in his unlisted gas pipeline company, Reliance Gas and Transportation Infrastructure (RGTIL), by way of share capital and unsecured loans, helping the loss-making firm’s net worth turn positive at Rs 877 crore in 2016-17 from a negative net worth of Rs 2,519 crore in the previous financial year. The company, which transports gas from the Andhra Pradesh coast to its clients in western India, is making huge losses .