(PTI) Fire broke out today in the North Block, which houses the ministries of home and finance, due to a short-circuit in the underground cable, leading to complete darkness in the heritage building for nearly an hour.The fire broke out near gate number eight of the North Block at around 3 PM but nobody was injured in the incident. At least four fire tenders were called to douse the blaze. Sources said the fire broke out due to a short-circuit in underground cables in the basement.There was no electricity for around 50 minutes leading to complete darkness in the wing where…
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(DNA) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today rued that successive governments had sought to forget India’s traditional medicinal systems instead of promoting them. Little was done to promote the traditional systems of medicine and wellness disciplines such as yoga in the pre- and post-independence eras, Modi said after inaugurating a research institute at yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth here. “In the pre-independence era the gems of our traditional systems of medicine and healthcare were deliberately kept under wraps because we were a slave country. But even in the post-independence era, unfortunately, there was an effort on the part of successive…
(PTI) Top ministers in the Modi government, including Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today discussed issues related to operationalisation of proposed anti-corruption ombudsman Lokpal. The meeting came after the Supreme Court said on Thursday that the Lokpal Act was a “workable piece of legislation” and that it was not justifiable to keep it pending. The meeting, which was held at Singh’s North Block office, was also attended by Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh, official sources said. “Some issues related to operationalisation of Lokpal were discussed during the meeting,” a…
(AU) बिहार में महागठबंधन के अंदर जहां मुखिया एकजुटता की अपील कर रहे हैं, वहीं नेताओं और प्रवक्ताओं के बीच बयानबाजी का तीखापन बढ़ता जा रहा है। जदयू नेता आरसीपी सिंह के बेनामी संपत्ति पर दिए बयान के बाद राजद नेता बीरेंद्र और जदयू के मुख्य प्रवक्ता संजय सिंह के बीच बयानबाजी गठबंधन के शीर्ष नेतृत्व को असहज कर रहा है। जदयू का नेतृत्व तो इस मामले में खामोश है, लेकिन राजद और कांग्रेस ने इसे गंभीरता से लिया है। कांग्रेस के प्रदेश अध्यक्ष अशोक चौधरी ने जहां इन बयानबाजी को गठबंधन के खिलाफ बताया है, वही राजद के प्रदेश…
(AU) जम्मू कश्मीर के मेंढर के मनकोटे क्षेत्र में आज सुबह पाकिस्तान ने फिर से सीजफायर का उल्लंघन किया। क्षेत्र में अभी भी रुक-रुक के गोलीबारी जारी है।इससे पहले दक्षिण कश्मीर के शोपियां में आतंकियों ने जम्मू कश्मीर पुलिस की एक पोस्ट पर हमला करते हुए हथियार लूट की एक बड़ी घटना को अंजाम दिया है। सूत्रों से मिली जानकारी के अनुसार मंगलवार रात करीब 11.30 बजे शोपियां के कोर्ट कॉम्पलेक्स के बाहर सुरक्षा के लिए बनाई गई एक पोस्ट पर अज्ञात आतंकियों ने हमला करते हुए 5 राइफलें लूट लीं।
(TH) The major units commissioned recently at BPCL-Kochi Refinery under Integrated Refinery Expansion Project (IREP) are designed to enhance the company’s refining capacity by six million tonnes. “We have mechanically completed the entire work for IREP that began in 2013 by commissioning five units out of the total nine units. This involves new crude distillation unit of 10.5 million tonnes capacity, the diesel hydro treater unit and a vacuum gas oil hydrotreating unit to remove sulphur from diesel and petrol etc,” said Prasad K Panicker, Executive Director. Remaining projects The remaining projects such as delayed coker unit to recover value-added…
(ET) The Indian Oil Corporation will set up a Rs 600-crore plant for the production of second generation ethanol in Haryana. The Haryana Government has accepted the investment proposal which approved by the empowered executive committee at its meeting held here, today. The plant will use plant waste, stubble, husk and straw to produce 100 kilo litres of ethanol every day. The state government has agreed to provide land either on nominal lease or free of cost. Billed to be the largest such plant in the country, it is expected to generate hundreds of jobs. The plant which would help…
(FE) To boost the corpus of the proposed Ujjwala Plus scheme for free LPG connections, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government may allow corporate donations for the scheme to be considered as mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending. “The legal and internal teams are working out the details to check which options can be included in the scheme,” an official from the ministry of petroleum and natural gas said, requesting not to be named. The other options being looked at are providing benefit for individual donors under section 80G of the income tax Act and accepting international donations conforming to…
(NDTV) In April, the Reserve Bank of India advised banks to closely monitor loans to telecom operators after Airtel, Vodafone and Idea got caught up in a price war with Reliance Jio. The apex bank had asked banks to consider setting aside higher provisions for loans in stressed sectors by June 30. The advisory is part of RBI’s efforts in the past year to address the problem of non-performing loans more proactively and highlighted the growing concern among policy makers that banks are yet to fully identify their bad loans. With Indian banks sitting on about Rs. 7 lakh crore…
(PTI) Aadhaar numbers and personal information of as many as 135 million Indians could have been leaked from four government portals due to lack of IT security practices, the Centre for Internet and Society has claimed. “Based on the numbers available on the websites looked at, estimated number of Aadhaar numbers leaked through these four portals could be around 130-135 million,” the report by CIS said. Further, as many as 100 million bank account numbers could have been “leaked” from the four portals, it added. The portals where the purported leaks happened were those of National Social Assistance Programme, National Rural…