(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…
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(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…
(HT) वित्तमंत्री अरुण जेटली ने शुक्रवार को बताया कि नोटबंदी के बाद ऐसे 18 लाख खातों का पता चला है, जिनमें जमा राशि खाताधारकों की आय के स्रोतों से मेल नहीं खाती है। उन्होंने साथ ही कहा कि ऐसे खाताधारकों को कानूनी नोटिस भेजा जाएगा। उन्होंने कहा कि साइबर अपराध के डर से डिजिटलीकरण से मुंह नहीं मोड़ा जा सकता। वित्तमंत्री ने लोकसभा में प्रश्नकाल के दौरान बताया कि नोटबंदी के बाद निष्क्रिय पड़े खातों या जनधन योजना के तहत खोले गए खातों के दुरुपयोग के संबंध में सरकार जांच कर रही है। इसके लिए विशेषज्ञों की भी मदद ली…
(DJ) केंद्रीय जलसंसाधन मंत्री उमा भारती ने कहा है कि योगी जी का सीएम बनना एक युग परिवर्तन है। उन्होंने कहा कि मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ की भी गंगा की सफाई को लेकर गहरी रुचि है। अब गंगा की सफाई का काम तेजी से आगे बढ़ेगा। वहीं, राम मंदिर मुद्दे पर उन्होंने कहा कि राममंदिर निर्माण में अपनी भूमिका के लिए मुझे कोई खेद नहीं है। मंदिर के लिए मुझे जेल जाना पड़े या फांसी पर लटकना पड़े तो भी मैं तैयार हूं। उमा भारती ने बताया कि वे आज मुख्यमंत्री से मिलीं और उनसे कहा कि गंगा-यमुना और सहायक नदी…
(PTI) The Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman today said the politics needs more women. Participating in an interactive session with members of Young Ficci Ladies Organisation here, Sitharaman said, “This (politics) may not be the first choice profession for women.In my family they asked me if I was sure to end up in politics. But politics needs more women. I would say that we need more women. “We do not want the stereotyped male or female in politics. Today our aspirational youngsters do not want the politics (which was) seen 20 or 30 years ago. They…
(Tribune) The Uttarakhand Government is planning to withdraw political cases pending against several BJP leaders.The immediate beneficiaries of the move would be Uttarakhand School Education Minister Arvind Pandey, BJP MLAs Puran Singh Fartyal, Ganesh Joshi and Rajkumar Thukral.Chief Minister Trivender Singh Rawat made this announcement yesterday at a public function to mark the BJP’s foundation day.Though the decision of the Chief Minister no doubt has made the party workers happy, it is not without legal tangles and would eventually have to go through the courts. However, the decision is not unprecedented as in the past too, the Congress government had…
(HT) भारत ने बांग्लादेश के साथ अपने रिश्तों को क्षेत्र की जनता की खुशहाली एवं समृद्धि के लिये समर्पित करते हुए 4.5 अरब डॉलर का आसान कर्ज देने और परमाणु ऊर्जा के शांतिपूर्ण उपयोग के लिये सहयोग सहित 22 समझौतों पर हस्ताक्षर किये तथा कोलकाता से खुलना के लिये बस एवं रेल सेवा और राधिकापुर-बीरोल रेललिंक का उद्घाटन किया। रक्षा क्षेत्र में हुए समझौते – तमिलनाडु के वेलिंगटन स्थित डिफेंस सर्विस स्टॉफ कॉलेज और बांग्लादेश के मीरपुर स्थित डिफेंस सर्विसेज कमान एंड स्टॉफ कॉलेज के बीच रणनीतिक सहयोग बढ़ाना। – बांग्लोदश और भारत के डिफेंस कॉलेज के बीच राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा के…
(Tribune) Uttarakhand Minister of State for Higher Education (independent charge) Dr Dhan Singh Rawat is now mulling making mandatory daily singing of Vande Mataram in universities and colleges of the state.Barely a week after he issued diktat directing all universities for compulsory daily hosting of the Tricolour in their campuses for which he was even identified as Tiranga Mantri, Dr Dhan Singh Rawat has now announced the singing of the national song compulsory soon in colleges and universities across the state.Dr Rawat said if one wanted to stay in Uttarakhand, he would have to sing Vande Mataram (Uttarakhand main rehna…
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated an All India Seminar on “Economic Reforms With Reference to Electoral Issues” organised by the Confederation of the Indian Bar today (April 8, 2017) in New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that a strong electoral system is necessary to strengthen the democratic structure of India. Timely reforms are necessary which not only would give justice to the people but also to the ideals enshrined in the Constitution of India. Hence it is necessary to undertake a dispassionate analysis of the way in which our electoral process is functioning with…