(FE) The much-hyped Goods and Services Tax and BHIM app are likely to be elaborately discussed at the two-day meeting of the working committee of the BJP’s UP unit beginning here tomorrow. Party insiders said that the upcoming civic bodies’ election along with the 2019 Lok Sabha election will also come up for discussion. “Special sessions will be held on Goods and Services Tax (GST) and BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) app at the two-day meeting of the state working committee here. In addition to this the party will also discuss on different aspects of the Uttar Pradesh urban local…
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(PTI) The new Congress president should be appointed through consensus and not election as it helps to bind the party and Rahul Gandhi is certainly up to it, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said today. He also said that it was up to Sonia Gandhi whether she will continue as party chief for another term and the party will be happy if she decides so.Amarinder, however, favoured projection of regional leaders in Congress and making them the party’s face in each state ahead of assembly elections. “Elections are always bitter and consensus keeps the party together. There should be a…
(FE) Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) today raised petrol price by 1 paisa a litre and diesel by 44 paise a litre following the fluctuations in crude prices which have been swinging between the push and pull from coordinated output cuts by major producers on one side, and rising US stockpiles on the other. The petrol and diesel price hikes, which will be effective from midnight today, comes on the back of Rs 1.39 per litre increase in petrol and Rs 1.04 a litre raise in diesel rates that was announced on April 16. Consumers should know that the actual increase…
आज यूपी के रिटायर्ड डीआरआई कर्नल देवेंद्र कुमार के मेरठ निवास पर छापा मार गया। कर्नल के घर से भारी मात्रा में लाइसेंसी और बिना लाईसेंसी राइफल, कारतूस, जानवरों का माँस , सींग, जानवरों की खाल बरामद हुए। रिटायर्ड कर्नल का बेटा प्रशांत बिशनोई नेशनल लेवल के शूटर हैं। पिछले साल प्रशांत ने करीब ५०० नील गाये मारी थी ।सबसे आश्चार्य की बात हैं कि कर्नल का घर मेरठ के सबसे पॉश इलाके में आता हैं, और उनके घर के सामने महिला थाना भी आता हैं। प्रशासन की नाक के नीचे यह गैर कानूनी काम चल रहा था, उनको इस…
(NDTV) A huge racket of poaching, illegal wildlife hunting and arms smuggling has been uncovered in joint raids carried out by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), wildlife department and local police, in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut. Four people have been detained for questioning. Raids were carried out at home of retired army personnel – a colonel, who owns a college in Bareilly. Also in question is the army officer’s son, Prashant Bishnoi, who is a national level shooter. At least 140 weapons, licensed and illegal, locally and foreign made, around 50,000 cartridges, skin and carcass of a leopard, blackbuck and extinct…
(TIE) Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman today assured there would be no imposition of Hindi and lashed out at the DMK for accusing the Centre of “wanton thrusting” of the language. “There is no thrusting of Hindi” as alleged by DMK working president M K Stalin, she said here. Sitharaman, the Union minister of state for commerce and industry, sought to turn the tables on him, asking what his party was doing when it was part of the previous Congress-led UPA regime, indicating there was imposition of Hindi then. She referred to the ‘Ek Bharat Shresht Bharat’ scheme launched by Prime…
(FE) Former Union Minister Ram Shankar Katheria, who has stirred controversies in the past with his remarks, is likely to be the Bharatiya Janata Party’s next Uttar Pradesh chief, informed sources said. Sources in the BJP told IANS that Katheria’s name is learnt to have been finalised after consultations with Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), the ideological mentor of the party. They said that RSS General Secretary Bhaiyaji Joshi and Joint General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale held discussions with BJP’s Uttar Pradesh in-charge Om Mathur on the new BJP state chief, and Katheria’s name was later suggested to BJP chief Amit Shah.…
(DJ) गोरखपुर विश्वविद्यालय परिसर में मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ के मंच पर हत्यारोपी विधायक अमनमणि त्रिपाठी भी नजर आए। विकास कार्यक्रमों से जुड़े आयोजन के लिए बनाए गए इस भव्य मंच से योगी ने 261 करोड़ की योजनाओं का शिलान्यास एवं लोकार्पण किया। इसी मंच पर उन्होंने यूपी में कानून का राज स्थापित करने की बात कही। उल्लेखनीय है कि नौतनवा विधायक अमनमणि त्रिपाठी पहले भी योगी से मिल चुके हैं। विधायक निर्वाचित होने के बाद उन्होंने सबसे पहले परिवारीजनों के साथ गोरखनाथ मंदिर जाकर योगी का आशीर्वाद लिया था। वह भाजपा सरकार को बिना शर्त समर्थन की घोषणा कर चुके हैं। आज…
(HT) Firing salvos at arch-rival Congress, BJP president Amit Shah said on Saturday evening that a party that caters to the interests of one family cannot work in the country’s interest. Embarking on the BJP’s Vistaar Yatra from Jammu, Shah sought optimum support from intellectuals, youth and workers of the party in the BJP’s quest to make Jammu and Kashmir one of its bastions. Addressing a gathering of prominent citizens in the evening, Shah traced the history and ideology of the BJP to Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee and said the BJP was based on principals and upholds its internal constitutional…
(AU) केंद्रीय वित्त मंत्री अरुण जेटली ने शनिवार को कहा कि नियमों का अनुपालन नहीं होने वाले मामलों में प्रवर्तन निदेशालय (ईडी) को अपनी पॉवर का तुरंत इस्तेमाल करना चाहिए ताकि मनी लॉन्ड्रिंग करने वालों व टैक्स चोरों के लिए एक उदाहरण किया पेश किया जा सके।जेटली यहां प्रवर्तन दिवस पर आयोजित कार्यक्रम को संबोधित कर रहे थे। उन्होंने एजेंसी से आह्वान किया कि कानूनों का ‘कड़ाई’ से पालन करें ताकि राजकोष में राजस्व की बढ़ोतरी हो। उन्होंने माना कि कर कानूनों का अनुपालन नहीं होने से बड़े पैमाने पर हमेशा जनहित व देशहित का ही नुकसान होता है। जेटली…