The West Bengal government has decided to absorb employees of three closed state public sector undertakings and develop the land as industrial parks. According to a senior minister, the decision was cleared at a Cabinet meeting at the state secretariat on Wednesday to absorb employees of Neo Pipes and Tubes Ltd, National Iron and Steel Ltd and the Lily Products Ltd and use the lands for industrial Read More

Jewellery stocks jumped by up to 10 per cent after the government increased excise duty exemption limit for the small scale industry to Rs 10 crore from Rs 6 crore that could bring relief to gold jewellers. On Wednesday, it also decided to waive the levy on sale of traded goods and relaxed other procedural norms. Shares of Tara Jewels Read More

Delhi government on Friday approved formation of ‘Mission Swaraj’ to implement its ambitious ‘mohalla sabhas’ project through which people will be empowered and encouraged for participating in governance at the local level. A senior government official said ‘Mission Swaraj’ being the nodal agency of the project, will play a vital role for the idea of ‘swaraj’ to succeed in the national Read More

Keeping up its offensive over the ‘telecom scam’, Congress Friday alleged that conduct of the Modi government and its ministers has “come under a cloud” in the wake of their “lame duck” reaction to the Rs 45,000 crore scandal in the sector. The party also raked up the Essar Tapes issue wondering as to what connection it has with the Read More

Reserve bank has said Haryana will vicinity special securities really worth Rs 775 crore the next day, beneath the discoms’ economic restructuring scheme, UDAY. “Haryana authorities proposes to problem unique securities of a notified amount of Rs 775 crore, beneath the Ujjwal Discom assurance Yojna Scheme (UDAY)”, RBI said in a launch. RBI has invited bids from eligible participants who Read More

Delhi authorities on Wednesday stated that students pursuing distance schooling from its open-learning schools, can attend regular lessons. Deputy chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who also holds the schooling portfolio, stated the authorities will deliver these college students faculty uniforms, scholarship, analyzing cloth and sports activities facility, which a ordinary college scholar is availing. “college students who failed two times or Read More

Punjab chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has released a special fund known as ‘Mukh Mantri Punjab Hepatitis C alleviation Fund’ to provide loose remedy for patients stricken by Hepatitis C. With this initiative, Punjab has end up the first nation in the u . s . to offer unfastened treatment to showed instances of Hepatitis C, a spokesperson claimed. Punjab Read More

Deviating from an established practice, the government has lower back two times to the perfect courtroom collegium a recommendation made by it. The collegium headed with the aid of chief Justice of India T S Thakur has stood by using its advice to appoint a further judge to the Patna excessive courtroom, overruling the government’s objections on both the occasion. Read More

An aid convoy of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent enters the Wafideen Camp, which is controlled by Syrian government forces, near a poster of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad, to deliver aid into the rebel-held besieged Douma neighborhood of Damascus The Syrian opposition said on Friday the government was mobilising forces on many fronts despite an agreement to cease hostilities, and Read More