Namrup: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of a Rs 10,601-crore brownfield ammonia-urea plant in Dibrugarh district of Assam. The facility – Assam Valley Fertiliser and Chemical Company Ltd (AVFCCL) – will have an annual urea production capacity of 12.7 lakh metric tonnes and the project is scheduled for commissioning in…
New Delhi: Zonair3D, a European clean-air technology company that has forayed into the Indian market, unveiled its air purification solutions here. The company has opened experience centres in New Delhi and Mumbai and plans to add more such centres across the country. “These Experience Centres are designed to let people see, feel, and measure the…
Guwahati: Alleging that the Congress has neglected Assam and the Northeast for decades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the BJP-led government was correcting “mistakes” the grand old party kept making in the region. Modi said a conspiracy was hatched to make Assam a part of East Pakistan, and Congress too was going to…
New Delhi: Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday accused the Modi government of bulldozing the MGNREGA, and asserted that the “black law” that seeks to repeal it will be defied by the lakhs of party workers across the country. In a video message, she said that by weakening MGNREGA, the Modi government had…
Bengaluru: With the leadership issue involving him and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah coming to the fore again, Deputy CM DK Shivakumar on Saturday said the Congress high command has told the two leaders when they will be called to Delhi to discuss the matter. He said that both of them will go to Delhi and meet…
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lashed out at the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, calling the state’s prevailing situation “maha jungle raj” and alleging that corruption, nepotism and appeasement of the ruling dispensation have prevented development in the state. Addressing a massive gathering at Taherpur in Nadia district over the phone from Kolkata,…
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter failed to land at the Taherpur helipad in West Bengal owing to low visibility on account of dense fog in the area on Saturday, an official said. The PM’s chopper made a U-turn after hovering over the helipad ground for a while and returned to the Kolkata airport, he…
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday said they have not received any formal complaint so far in connection with the alleged assault of a passenger by an off-duty Air India Express pilot at the city airport. The alleged assault is linked to a dispute over some staff members allegedly cutting the queue at the security…
Belagavi (Karnataka): (Dec 20) Karnataka Legislative Council has adopted a resolution asking the central government to include the state’s 56 per cent reservation decision in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution. The resolution was adopted by the Council in the absence of the opposition members on Friday, as they had earlier staged a walkout dissatisfied…
Indore: The VB-G RAM G bill is in the country’s interest, and its implementation will hurt only those who indulged in corruption and stole the wages of beneficiaries under the erstwhile Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said. The new legislation benefits farmers and the youth by increasing employment,…
