(TH) All NTPC power plants over 25 years old will be phased out and converted into ‘super critical plants’ to augment generation capacity and reduce pollution, Power Minister Piyush Goyal informed the Lok Sabha on Thursday. Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, Goyal said NTPC’s old power plants, which together produce around 11,000 MW, will be phased out gradually and converted into ‘super critical plants’, which are six-eight ttimes less polluting. In reply to another question, the Minister said with the ‘24X7 power for all’ initiative taken jointly with State governments, access to electricity will increase and accordingly power demand will…
Author: Aruna Sharma
(AU) जम्मू-कश्मीर के पुलवामा में सुरक्षाबलों और आतंकियों के बीच जबरदस्त मुठभेड़ हुआ। इस दौरान मौका पाते ही आतंकी मौके से भाग खड़े हुए।बताते चलें कि इससे पहले 9 मार्च को भी कश्मीर के पुलवामा में आतंकियों और सुरक्षाबलों के बीच मुठभेड़ हुआ था। इसके बाद वहां जबरदस्त हिंसक प्रदर्शन हुआ था। जानकारी के मुताबिक मुठभेड़ स्थल के पास शुरू हुए हिंसक प्रदर्शनों के दौरान उपद्रवियों ने सुरक्षाबलों पर पथराव किया था। इसके बाद सुरक्षाबलों द्वारा भीड़ को नियंत्रित करने के लिए आंसू गैस के गोले दागे गए हैं। सूत्रों के मुताबिक मुठभेड़ स्थल के पास हुए इस प्रदर्शन के…
(AU) उत्तराखंड में सरकार की कमान कौन संभालेगा, इसका फैसला शुक्रवार को होने वाली भाजपा विधायक दल की बैठक में हो जाएगा। नए मुख्यमंत्री प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी और पार्टी के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष अमित शाह की उपस्थिति में पद और गोपनीयता की शपथ लेंगे। सरकार की कमान त्रिवेंद्र सिंह रावत को मिलेगी या प्रकाश पंत को, इस पर सस्पेंस कायम है। रावत और पंत की पैरवी करने वाले प्रदेश अध्यक्ष अजय भट्ट बृहस्पतिवार को पार्टी अध्यक्ष अमित शाह से अलग-अलग मुलाकात करने के बाद देहरादून रवाना हो गए। सूत्रों का कहना है कि उत्तर प्रदेश के लिए नाम तय नहीं होने के…
(MP) State-owned ONGC will invest over Rs 21,500 crore to develop India’s deepest gas discovery by 2022-23, helping it more than double output from its prime KG basin block. Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), which had last year firmed up an investment of Rs 34,012 crore ($5.076.37 billion) in bringing to production 10 oil and gas discoveries in its Bay of Bengal block KG-DWN-98/2 (KG-D5), plans to invest another Rs 21,528.10 crore ($3.2 billion) in developing the ultra-deepsea UD-1 find. “We have submitted to the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons a declaration of commerciaility (DoC) for the UD-1 find. We…
(DJ) जिले में बीपीएल कार्डधारकों को 19525 गैस कनेक्शन जारी किए गए हैं, जिसमें 16560 कनेक्शन प्रधानमंत्री उज्जवला योजना तथा 2965 गैस कनेक्शन सीएसआर स्कीम के तहत उपभोक्ताओं को दिए जा चुके हैं। उपायुक्त एनके सोलंकी ने बताया कि जिला में अब 17 गैस एजेन्सियां है, जिनमें से 9 शहरी व 8 ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में कार्यरत है। इन एजेंसियों पर कुल 171625 उपभोक्ता पंजीकृत हो चुके है। इस समय जिले में गैस की कोई कमी नहीं है। उपभोक्तओं को सुगमता से गैस उपलब्ध हो रही है। कु¨कग गैस की उपलब्धता सुनिश्चित करने हेतू घरेलू गैंस का दुरुपयोग को रोकने के…
(HT) The suspense over the new chief minister of Uttar Pradesh is expected to end at the BJP legislature party (BJPLP) meeting to be held in Lucknow on Saturday. The declaration of a new leader, in the presence of Union minister Venkaiah Naidu and party general secretary Bhupendra Yadav, will coincide with the party’s victory day celebration on that day. The BJP’s incumbent legislature party leader, Suresh Khanna, on Thursday confirmed the news about Saturday’s meeting of the party’s newly-elected lawmakers.An indication of who would be chief minister would come via Uttarakhand, where the legislature party would meet on Friday to…
(FE) In a setback to the state government, the Orissa High Court today passed an order to “keep in abeyance” a demand notice of VAT recovery from Indian Oil Corporation Limited. The state government in February had asked the IOCL to deposit tax of Rs 1485.98 crore for the sale of finished products from its Paradip Refinery project, which was commissioned in November, 2015. A division bench of justices Indrajit Mahanti and Biswajit Mohanty while adjudicating over a petition, filed by IOCL, also ordered the high-level working group formed under the chairmanship of Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry to…
(FE) To further augment the country’s oil and gas production capacity, the second round of the discovered small field (DSF) auction and a policy to incentivise enhanced oil recovery (EOR) will be launched soon, petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday. The government will also push fledgling fields into production enhancement contracts. Emphasizing that the world is analysing the Indian energy market and 30% of the incremental energy demand is going to come from India, Pradhan said the country is in a position to influence the world energy prices.
(HT) Uttar Pradesh BJP chief and contender for chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya was on Thursday admitted to the intensive care unit of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi. “He had cough, cold and fever and felt uneasy. His blood pressure had shot up. So, as per standard protocol, he was admitted to the ICU,” said Dr AK Gadpayle, medical superintendent of the hospital.
(News18) UP BJP President Keshav Prasad Maurya, who was considered one of the frontrunners for the post of Chief Minister, may be out of the reckoning. The party’s national president, Amit Shah, on Thursday said he had given Maurya the responsibility of “selecting the next Chief Minister”.Maurya is like Prime Minister Narendra Modi in more ways than one. A dedicated RSS worker who rose through ranks, sold tea at his father’s tea stall as a child and hails from an OBC background. At just 47, Maurya has emerged as one of the tallest leaders in the UP BJP in a…