The Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari has said that an investment of Rs 2 lakh 50000 crore is being made in Tamil Nadu under Sagarmala. Of this Rs.39,000 crore will be for port modernization, Rs.55,000 crore for port connectivity and Rs.1,50,000 crore for port led industrialization. The minister said this at Kamarajar Port in Chennai today, where he inaugurated several new projects. The projects include a New Container Terminal worth Rs.1270 crore, a new multi cargo terminal worth Rs.151 crores, Railway line to Container and Multi cargo terminal worth Rs. 60 crore, and RFID…
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, held bilateral meetings with the leaders of Kazakhstan, China and Uzbekistan, on the sidelines of the SCO meeting in Astana. In his meeting with President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan on Thursday, the Prime Minister congratulated Kazakhstan for membership of the UN Security Council in 2017-18. President Nazarbayev received the Prime Minister warmly and recalled his earlier visit to Kazakhstan in 2015. Both leaders reviewed progress on decisions and agreements made during that visit. Kazakhstan is currently the largest supplier of uranium to India, and both sides agreed to maintain the partnership. Cooperation in this area…
(Tribune) The 13-day budget session of the Uttarakhand Assembly will commence here on Thursday.Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prakash Pant, who also holds the Finance portfolio, would present the budget for 2017-2018 on the opening day of the house, which would then come up for discussion on the following days.Speaker Prem Chand Agarwal convened an all-party meeting today ahead of the session and called upon the representatives of the political parties to cooperate so that the House can work smoothly. “I have asked the representatives of both the Opposition and the treasury benches to cooperate for the smooth functioning of the House.…
(AT) राष्ट्रपति प्रणब मुखर्जी ने बुधवार को आगाह किया कि हर वर्ष रोजगार बाजार में प्रवेश करने वाले एक करोड़ लोगों के लिए पर्याप्त मात्रा में रोजगार सृजन नहीं हो रहे हैं जो देश के जनांकिकीय लाभांश का सही लाभ उठाने के रास्ते में बाधा की तरह है. ऑल इंडिया मैनेजमेंट एसोसिएशन के हीरक जयंती साल पर विशेष कार्यक्रम में प्रणब मुखर्जी ने कहा कि देश में उद्यमिता के लिए पूर्ण प्रशिक्षण देने वाली प्रबंधन शिक्षा की तत्काल जरूरत है. उन्होंने कहा, हर वर्ष एक करोड़ लोग रोजगार बाजार में आते हैं लेकिन उनके लिए पर्याप्त मात्रा में रोजगार सृजित नहीं…
(AT) मध्य प्रदेश के मंदसौर जिले 5 किसानों की मौत के बाद से ही हिंसा और तनाव की चपेट में है. राज्य में गुस्साएं प्रदर्शनकारियों ने मंदसौर, देवास, नीमच, धार और इंदौर सहित कई हिस्सों में लूटपाट, आगजनी, तोड़फोड़ और पथराव किया. इस बीच कांग्रेस उपाध्यक्ष राहुल गांधी पुलिस गोलीबारी में मारे गए किसानों के परिवारों से मिलने मंदसौर के लिए रवाना हो चुके हैं. इससे पहले खबर आई थी कि कांग्रेस उपाध्यक्ष बुधवार को ही पीड़ित परिवारों से मिलने मंदसौर जाने वाले थे, लेकिन प्रशासन ने उनके हेलीकॉप्टर को लैंडिंग की इजाजत देने से इनकार कर दिया था. हालांकि…
(FE) SCO summit: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for Kazakhstan’s Astana to attend crucial two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meet today. PM Modi has said that he was looking forward to deepening India’s association with SCO. Apart from India, Pakistan, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will also attend the summit of the six-nation, according to report. It has been learned that India and Pakistan will be become full members of the Eurasian grouping in the Astana summit. The Prime Minister has expressed that he wanted to take India’s long-standing relations with the SCO members to another level…
(TH) Another gas leak took place in Malikipuram mandal on Tuesday keeping the people of the village on tenterhooks and gripping them with fear for few hours. This is the seventh leak in a row in the last four months particularly in Sakhinetipalli mandal. According to ONGC officials, around 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday a leak was observed from KV 10 due to choke jam and villagers pressed the panic button. Sand ingress The incident happened at a well Antervedikara (near ZP High School) under the Mori gas collection station. The leak was due to sand ingress from the well along with water. “The…
The Central Government in the last three General Budgets viz 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 has gradually abolished various cesses on goods and services in order to prepare the ground for smooth roll- out of Goods and Service Tax (GST) from 1st July, 2017. The Central Government has taken this step in stages by abolishing various cesses so that it is easier to fit in various goods and services in different tax slabs for GST. The Central Government in its General Budget 2015-16 had abolished Education Cess, including Secondary and Higher Education Cess on taxable services, and exempted Education Cess on excisable…
(PTI) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today embarked on a four-day visit to Paris during which he will address foreign investors and sign the OECD pact that aims to check cross border tax evasion by MNCs. Jaitley will deliver the keynote address at the OECD meeting tomorrow and participate in a panel discussion on ‘Stocktaking on Globalisation’. Other participants in the panel discussion include OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria and Denmark Minister of Foreign Affairs Anders Samuelsen. He will also participate in discussion sessions on ‘The Challenges of Globalisation and the OECD’ and ‘Cashless Society and Fintech’. He will also hold a bilateral…
(Nai Duniya) ईपीएफओ ने एक अच्छी खबर देते हुए पीएफ अकाउंट से आधार लिंक करने की तारीख 30 जून तक बढ़ा दी है। इसके बाद कर्मचारी अपने आधार को आसानी से लिंक कर पाएंगे। हालांकि पूर्वोत्तर के राज्यों के लिए इसकी आखिरी तारीख 30 सितंबर 2017 है। गौरतलब है कि शुरुआती तौर पर ईपीएफ ने इसके लिए 30 अप्रैल 2017 की समयसीमा तय की थी। हालांकि काफी सारे सदस्यों के आधार कार्ड बनने में देरी से इस समय सीमा को बढ़ाना पड़ा। संगठन ने जारी किया परिपत्र ईपीएफओ ने इस संबंध में परिपत्र जारी करते हुए कहा कि सभी फील्ड…