(BS) The Income Tax department, Enforcement Directorate and other agencies have seized Rs 141.13 crore worth of new currency notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 crore while acting in different parts of the country, Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. Of this amount, Rs 110 crore was seized by the IT Department, Rs 4.54 crore seized by ED, Rs 26.21 crore by the CBI and Rs 38 lakh by the DRI, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said during Question Hour.”All new Indian currency notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 denominations seized by the ED are deposited in SBI or any…
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(HT) उत्तर प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ के प्रधान सचिव आईएएस अधिकारी अवनीश अवस्थी होंगे। वे आज से पदभार संभाल सकते हैं। उन्होंने देर रात सीएम योगी से मुलाकात भी की। अवनीश अवस्थी 1987 बैच के आईएएस अधिकारी हैं। अवनीश अवस्थी की प्रमुख सचिव पद पर नियुक्ति के लिए सीएम योगी ने केंद्र से मांग की थी। वे वर्ष 2013 से केंद्र सरकार में सामाजिक न्याय मंत्रालय में बतौर संयुक्त सचिव के पद पर तैनात थे। इसके अलावा वे पहले गोरखुपर, मेरठ, बदायूं, वाराणसी, फैजाबाद, आजमगढ़, ललितपुर के डीएम भी रह चुके हैं। आईएएस अधिकारी अवनीश अवस्थी लोकगीतों की मशहूर…
(BS) Oil and Natural Gas Corp expects its natural gas production to reach a 5-year high in the current financial year following the start-up in coming weeks of a long-delayed project in the Arabian Sea, two senior company executives said. State-owned ONGC, which accounts for about two-thirds of India’s total natural gas production, is likely to produce close to 25 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas in the financial year 2018, the executives told Reuters.The forecast compares with 23.5 bcm in the financial year to end March 2017, one of the executives said, representing expected growth of about six per…
(AU) स्वीडन में शुक्रवार को भारतीय दूतावास के पास एक हमले में कम से कम पांच लोगों के मारे जाने की खबर है जबकि 15 लोग घायल हो गए। स्टॉकहोम में संदिग्ध आतंकी ने सड़क किनारे चल रहे लोगों पर ट्रक को चढ़ाते हुए ट्रक को एक डिपार्टमेंटल स्टोर में घुसा दिया। स्वीडन के प्रधानमंत्री स्टीफन लोफवेन ने इसे आतंकी हमला बताया है। इस बीच, पुलिस ने एक व्यक्ति को इस हमले के संदेह में गिरफ्तार किया है। पुलिस के मुताबिक ये पूरा मामला स्टॉकहोम के ड्रोटिंघगटन में स्थित एहलेंस माल के डिपार्टमेंटल स्टोर का है। जहां तेज रफ्तार वाहन ने…
(DC) State-owned oil marketing firms are looking at the option of changing petrol and diesel prices daily depending upon their prices in international market and current exchange rate. “This is the intention but no action is being taken right now. We are looking at it and when some concrete will happen we will inform general public,” an official from one of the oil marketing companies told this newspaper.IOC, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum own around 90 per cent petrol pumps in the country. India deregulated petrol prices in June 2010 and diesel in October 2014. Since then, PSU oil firms have…
(FE) India will formally commence the commercial supply of High Speed Diesel (HSD) to Bangladesh from Saturday, said Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday. Interacting with Indian and Bangladeshi media on the sidelines of an event at a hotel here, Pradhan said that an inaugural consignment of 2200 metric tonnes of HSD would be sent to Bangladesh. India plans to build a pipeline to carry HSD to Bangladesh and move a formal proposal on the friendship project during Hasina’s meeting with Modi, diplomatic sources said. Until the project is completed, HSD will be transported…
(liveMint) The government is considering a new and potentially more attractive equity savings scheme to replace one that was scrapped this year following a tepid investor response. The new scheme will offer more flexibility and greater limits than the Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme (RGESS), said two people with direct knowledge of the development. For one, the government is looking to enhance the investment limit eligible for tax benefits under this scheme to Rs2 lakh, four times the RGESS limit. Secondly, the stringent entry norms prescribed by RGESS may be done away with, these people said on condition of anonymity.
(AU) राष्ट्रीय जनता दल के अध्यक्ष लालू प्रसाद यादव के बेटे तेजप्रताप यादव मिट्टी घोटाले में फंस गए हैं। विपक्ष के नेता सुशील मोदी ने एक संवादाता सम्मेलन करके कहा कि लालू के दोनों बेटों और बेटी चंदा यादव पटना के सुगना मोड़ पर बन रहे शॉपिंग मॉल के लिए जमीन से निकाली गई मिट्टी को पटना चिड़ियाघर को बेचा गया। मिट्टी की कीमत 90 लाख रुपये रखी गई, जिसका पेमेंट भी चिड़ियाघर ने कंपनी को किया है। मिट्टी का नहीं दे पाएं सबूत हालांकि सुशील मोदी इस बात का सबूत नहीं दे पाए, जिससे इस बात का पता चला…
(LiveMint) The board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cleared a proposal to introduce banknotes of Rs200 denomination, two people aware of the development said. The decision was taken at the RBI board meeting in March, these people said. They didn’t want to be identified as they aren’t authorized to speak to the media. The process of printing the new Rs200 notes is likely to begin after June, once the government officially approves this new denomination, said one of the two people cited earlier.An RBI spokesperson declined to comment.
(LiveMint) Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), the welfare scheme brought by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government akin to the previous regime’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, promising energy security to the poor, has covered more than 2 crore households within 11 months of launch. The scheme, which offers liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) connections to women below poverty line without upfront charges, exceeded its target for the 2016-17 fiscal of 1.5 crore connections in eight months since its launch last May and is gathering pace as access to clean energy has been set as a priority in the…