New Delhi, Sep 6 (UNI) Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Scheme for Viability Gap Funding (VGF) for the development of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) with budgetary support of Rs.3,760 crore. The approved scheme envisages the development of 4,000 MWh of BESS projects by 2030-31, with financial support of up to 40% of the…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (UNI) Supreme Court in its interim order on Wednesday protected three senior Journalists from arrest till September 11, who gave a fact-finding report on behalf of Editors’ Guild of India (EGI) on ‘biased’ reporting by local journalists on the brutal ethnic clash related issues in Manipur. The bench of the Apex…
New Delhi, Sep 6 (UNI) Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought a clear agenda from the government for the upcoming special session of Parliament. In a letter to Modi, Sonia Gandhi alleged that,” a special session had been called without any prior discussion with other…
New Delhi, (UNI) Congress on Tuesday launched a scathing attack against the BJP-led Central government over the invitation to a G20 summit dinner hosted at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, which the party claimed that the invitations had ‘President of Bharat’ inscribed on them, instead of ‘President of India’. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh shared the invitation…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi to embark on a two-day visit to Indonesia from Wednesday to attend the 20th ASEAN-India Summit and 18th East Asia Summit. The summit is being hosted by Indonesia as the current chair of ASEAN. It will review the progress of India-ASEAN relations and chart the future…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (UNI) Supreme Court’s five-judge Constitution bench on Tuesday reserved its judgement on the batch of pleas challenging the validity of Centre’s August 2019 decision to scrap J&K’s special status and bifurcating it to Union Territories. The five-judge Constitution bench, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dr Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud reserved…
New Delhi, Sep 4 (UNI) Continuing its attack against Congress and the I.N.D.I.A alliance over the remarks on “Sanatan Dharma” by Tamil Nadu Minister, BJP on Monday said Congress has made it a policy to defame Hinduism and try to create a rift in the society. Addressing a press conference at party headquarters in New…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 4 (UNI) A technical snag forced a New Delhi-bound IndiGo flight to make an emergency landing at Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) in Bhubaneswar on Monday. BPIA sources said one of the engines of the Indigo flight developed a technical snag soon after it took off from the airport. The flight 6E-2065 with…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (UNI) The government on Saturday named Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Home Minister Amit Shah, former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad among members to the High Level Committee (HLC) to examine and make recommendations for holding simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha, state assemblies, municipalities and panchayats. The high-level panel will be…
New Delhi, Sep 2 (UNI) President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday congratulated scientists and engineers at ISRO for the successful launch of its maiden Solar Mission Aditya-L1. “The launch of Aditya-L1, India’s first solar mission, is a landmark achievement that takes India’s indigenous space programme to a new trajectory. It will help us better understand space…
