(AU) इस साल के अंत में होने जा रहे गुजरात विधानसभा चुनाव भाजपा प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी के चेहरे पर लड़ेगी। यह जानकारी पार्टी के वरिष्ठ नेताओं ने दी। उनका मानना है कि मोदी के गृह राज्य में होने जा रहा चुनाव भाजपा के लिए ‘प्रतिष्ठा की लड़ाई’ है।पार्टी राज्य विधानसभा चुनाव में खराब प्रदर्शन का जोखिम नहीं उठा सकती है, क्योंकि मोदी की देशभर में लोकप्रियता का आधार ही ‘गुजरात का विकास मॉडल’ है और इसी के चलते देश के मतदाताओं ने उन्हें वर्ष 2014 में प्रधानमंत्री के पद पर बैठाया। मोदी के प्रधानमंत्री बनने और उनके करीबी अमित शाह के…
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(TH) The creation of ‘integrated energy major’ will not affect the proposed mega refinery project, which is a combined initiative of three public sector oil refining-cum-retailing companies. Takeover proposal “There will no overlaps or conflicts. As and when work takes place on integrated energy major it will be a smooth transition of business,” Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Petroleum & Natural Gas, told BusinessLine. Under active consideration is a proposal that public sector energy giant ONGC will take over one of the refiner-cum-retailers such as Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL). In all likelihood the government will adopt…
PM Modi & PM Sheikh Hasina at a programme to honour Indian soldiers martyred in the 1971 war
(HT) Terming the invalidation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes as a “bold move” to check black money, the finance ministry today said no serious attempt of this scale was made in the past. “No serious attempt at this scale has been attempted in the past. In the two attempts of demonetisation made in 1946 and 1978, the scale of operation was not as expansive,” the finance ministry annual report 2016-17 released today said. The present scheme under Section 26 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, is a bold move of the government to eradicate black money…
(BS) Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari today said the minimum and most essential expectation of the people from the Smart City initiative is round the clock availability of drinking water. “It is high time that 24×7 drinking water supply is made available in different parts of the country. Nagpur has successfully implemented such project by carrying out water audit and plugging leakages in the system,” said Gadkari. He was speaking at the valedictory function of the two-day ‘Smart and Sustainable City Summit’ organised jointly by Nagpur Municipal Corporation(NMC) and Elets Techno Media Private Limited here.
(LiveMint) State-owned power sector companies will raise over $1 billion in debt from the UK market for a “rapid expansion of energy projects” this financial year, power minister Piyush Goyal said after the first India-UK energy dialogue. At a joint briefing with Greg Clark, the UK’s secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, Goyal said the two nations had agreed to boost ties on a reciprocal basis. India’s Energy Efficiency Services Ltd has already opened offices in the UK and has invested £7 million in energy-saving projects there. Clark described the dialogue as a “tremendous success”. He promised the…
(PTI) Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharti today said Ram temple in Ayodhya was a matter of belief for her and she was ready to go to jail for it. “Ram temple is a matter of belief for me and I have immense pride in it…if I have to go to jail for it I will go, if I have to hang myself for it I will do it,” the firebrand BJP leader, who was part of Ram temple movement, told newspersons after meeting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Asked if the issue of Ram temple construction in Ayodhya…
(PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today assured Bangladesh of an “early solution” to the emotive Teesta water sharing issue, a pact on which has remained elusive for nearly seven years. The two sides inked nearly two dozen pacts in key areas of defence and civil nuclear cooperation after “productive” talks between Modi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here. Modi held extensive discussions with Hasina on ways to strengthen ties between the two countries after which he announced a line of concessional credit of USD 4.5 billion for implementation of projects in Bangladesh. Announcing an additional line of credit of USD…
(HT) After three failed auctions, banks have finally managed to sell the Kingfisher Villa in Goa belonging to businessman Vijay Mallya to actor-producer Sachiin Joshi for Rs 73 crore through a private treaty. The harried lenders to Kingfisher Airlines have ended the jinx to recover the dues of over Rs 9,000 crore by monetising assets of the airline under their custody by selling the villa. The sale of the villa finally took off earlier this week after three failed auctions, the last being on March 6. With this, the lenders’ only other asset is the Kingfisher House in Mumbai, which had…
(Tribune) Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday reiterated his commitment to the waiver of farm debts, saying his government would soon find ways and means to bail out the debt-ridden farmers, with or without the help of the Centre. The Chief Minister was interacting with the media after inaugurating D-Mart’s first post-IPO store in Punjab here. Assuring that his government was duty-bound to keep every promise made to the people in its election manifesto, Amarinder said the state government had approached the Union Government for waiver of farmers’ loans; but even if it failed to get any support from the…