(AU) केंद्र सरकार ने आधार कार्ड के डाटा को लीक होने से बचाने के लिए राज्यों को डाटा के इस्तेमाल करने के विषय में चेताया है। केंद्र की मोदी सरकार ने कहा है कि लोगों की पर्सनल जानकारी और आधार डेटा को उपयोग करने में सावधानी बरती जाए, जिससे किसी भी हालत में डेटा सार्वजनिक न होने पाए।केंद्र की ओर से यह भी कहा गया कि यदि ऐसा कोई मामला संज्ञान में आता है तो उसे तीन साल की सजा दी जा सकती है। लगातार आधार डाटा के लीक होने की आ रही खबरों को मद्देनजर रखते हुए केंद्र ने…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(BS) India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has affirmed ONGC Petro Additions Limited’s (OPAL) Long-Term Issuer Rating at ‘IND A+’. The Outlook is Positive. India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has affirmed ONGC Petro Additions Limited’s (OPAL) Long-Term Issuer Rating at ‘IND A+’. The Outlook is Positive. Plant Commissioning: Ind-Ra has maintained a Positive Outlook on OPAL to reflect the commissioning of OPAL’s greenfield petrochemicals complex in FY17 and the company’s expectations that the operations will be stabilised in FY18. The performance guarantee test runs are underway. Commercial operations at the petrochemical plant’s polypropylene unit were started in June 2015. Linkages with…
(ET) Sharon Furtado and her three friends who work with media firms in Parel, car-pool every day from Borivali to their workplaces. Saturday’s hike in petrol prices will add at least Rs 120 to each one’s monthly travel bill. But what has upset Sharon the most is a little-known detail: they are now paying 153% in taxes over the per litre price at which petrol is sold by refineries to oil companies. Given today’s crude price and dollar-rupee exchange rates, the cost of petrol supplied by oil companies inclusive of their marketing charges is Rs 29.54 per litre (see graphic).…
(FE) The MCD election results 2017 is set to be declared in a few hours from now. After weeks of heated campaigns by leaders of competing parties — AAP, BJP, Congress, BSP, JD(U), Shiv Sena, Swaraj India etc– and a literally hot election day on April 23, the results today would not only affect the lives of the common men and women of the national capital for the next five years but also the political parties trying to strengthen their hold on Delhi. A win today for Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would prove that his famous victory in…
(ET) India’s production of Coal Bed Methane (CBM), a clean energy source extracted from coal seams, grew more than 44 percent last financial year to around 565 million standard cubic metres (MMSCM) as compared to 393 MMSCM in 2015-2016. This comes as a major boost for the government’s efforts to cut down India’s import dependence for energy supply. The huge growth in CBM output in 2016-17 was, however, lower than the government’s projections. India’s upstream regulator DGH had last year informed a parliamentary panel India’s CBM production was pegged to quadruple to 1,449 MMSCM at the end of 2016-2017. Oil…
(PTI) Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel has said the Indian banking system could be better off if some public sector banks are consolidated to have fewer but healthier entities, as it would help in dealing with the problem of stressed assets. “As many have pointed out, it is not clear that we need so many public sector banks. The system could be better off if they are consolidated into fewer but healthier banks,” Dr. Patel said while delivering the Kotak Family Distinguished Lecture at Columbia University here. He said since there were cooperative banks and micro-financial institutions to…
(FirstPost) The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday cancelled 15 public holidays in marking the birth or death anniversary of eminent personalities. Most of the holidays had been declared by the previous Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) governments apparently to keep certain sections of the society in good humour, often with an eye on the vote bank. However, the state Cabinet at its meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday decided to cancel 15 such public holidays in educational institutions. “Instead, students in schools and colleges would now be taught about the great personalities on these days,” Cabinet minister Shrikant Sharma said while briefing media persons…
The Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the 47th Foundation Day of Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd. (HUDCO) today and said that HUDCO is playing an important role in taking financial inclusion forward in the country, as it is taking care of the housing finance needs of the economically deprived sections. Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu said that in the last 47 years, HUDCO had constructed 16 million residential units across the country and over 92 per cent of these dwelling units have benefited the economically weaker sections and low income groups. He further…
(AU) घाटी में लगातार बिगड़ते हालात से चिंतित पीडीपी प्रमुख महबूबा मुफ्ती ने कहा है कि यदि केंद्र ने बातचीत में लगातार देर की तो उन्हें मुख्यमंत्री पद की कुर्सी छोड़ने में किसी प्रकार झिझक नहीं होगी।सूत्रों का कहना है कि यूनिफाइड कमांड की बैठक से पहले गुपकार रोड स्थित आवास पर पार्टी की कोर ग्रुप की बैठक में घाटी के हालात पर चर्चा की गई। साथ ही प्रधानमंत्री तथा गृह मंत्री के साथ हुई मुलाकात की उन्होंने जानकारी दी। सूत्रों ने बताया कि बैठक में उन्होंने साफ शब्दों में कहा कि वे पार्टी की रीति-नीति से किसी प्रकार का…
(Tribune) Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat today met Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh in New Delhi. He apprised him of agriculture-related schemes in the state in detail. The Chief Minister urged the Union Minister to approve a cluster-based farming project, to be funded by the World Bank, worth Rs 71,470.00 lakh for a period of seven years for Uttarakhand. The Chief Minister informed the Union Agriculture Minister that 88 per cent agricultural land was non-irrigated in the state, besides the fact that agriculture was a major source of livelihood of the people of the state and 91 per cent…