Month: September 2021

Based on a request for assistance from the civil administration,  a Naval Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster relief (HADR) team, consisting of naval divers with support gear, was dispatched at short notice from INS Sardar Patel to Rajkot on the evening of 13 Sep 21 to join the ongoing rescue efforts.  Six more teams are ready to augment the ongoing civil rescue efforts in affected areas.          Similarly, several rescue teams have been deployed from INS Valsura in Jamnagar to assist stranded people from various parts of rain…

Eleven States namely, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand have achieved the target set by the Ministry of Finance for the capital expenditure in the 1st Quarter of 2021-22. As an incentive, these States have been granted permission by the Department of Expenditure to borrow an additional amount of Rs. 15,721 crore. The additional open market borrowing permission granted is equivalent to 0.25 percent of their Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP). Additional financial resources thus made available will help the States in pushing…

USA willing to collaborate with India for realizing its target of 450 GW RE by 2030   Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy,R.K. Singh met a delegation led by John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPOC) here. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss further collaboration on climate change issues and to work towards a genuine partnership between the two countries to pave the way for the rest of the world on Energy Transition.   Alok Kumar, Secretary Ministry of Power and other senior…

Shri Arjun Munda, Minister of Tribal Affairs, accompanied by Shri Pravir Krishna, Managing Director, TRIFED and other senior officials, successfully concluded a two-day visit to Assam on September 13, 2021.  The Union Minister, who addressed a Press Conference at Assam Administrative Staff College today, said that the Ministry of Tribal Affairs is committed towards proper implementation of tribal development programmes in the State and he also informed about future plans for augmenting tribal development here.   While addressing the media persons, the Union Minister informed that his Ministry’s focus is…

The MLA from Ghatlodia constituency in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, Bhupendra Patel has been sworn in as the new chief minister of Gujarat. The sworn-in ceremony took place at Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar at 2:20 pm on Monday. Governor Acharya Devvrat administered the oath of office with BJP leaders Amit Shah, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and others present on stage.   Earlier, Bhupendra Patel, along with other senior BJP leaders, including former state chief minister Vijay Rupani, Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Mansukh Mandaviya and party general secretary Tarun Chaug, met governor…

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that India’s public sector banks that were caught in turbulence are stable now after prompt corrective actions (PCA) have been taken.   The minister was speaking at the Tamilnad Mercantile Bank’s (TMB) centenary celebrations in Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu on Sunday. Sitharaman said that prior to 2014, the public sector banks were facing various problems.   “The public sector banks were laden with huge non-performing assets (NPA) which was a serious concern for the future of the banking sector itself,” she said.  …

According to an official statement, two telecom service providers have been slapped a penalty of Rs 20 lakh each for allegedly damaging roads while laying optical fibre lines in Greater Noida.   It further stated that residents had repeatedly complained about the broken roads to the local Greater Noida Authority as they were facing a lot of trouble.   Telecom service providers Reliance Digital Company and Airtel‘s local vendor Telesonic Network were laying optical fibre along the roads in sectors Beta 1 and Beta 2 of Greater Noida to further…