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BHOPAL: In the midst of all out massive organisational efforts, Madhya Pradesh BJP faced a sort of mini revolt by four Ministers. These four ministers conveyed their annoyance by staying away from an organisational meeting headed by BJP national organisational general secretary B. L. Santosh who was on a three day visit to MP.

Eco-friendly electric-vehicles might have had a slow start in the country and perhaps faced some policy hiccups as well. But like solar power and other renewable energy, the slow and delayed start notwithstanding, EV manufacturing has been making rapid progress lately. In certain cases solar power has become a preferred first choice and its tariff has become highly competitive to conventional power. In the case of electric vehicles, the start has been slow and tardy and the covid pandemic pushed it down further. With the economy witnessing revival in recent months, it is now quite evident that the automotive industry might witness sea-change and internal combustion engines will become a thing of the past in the not too distant future.

Pune: Abhijit Singh Chadha fired seven-under 63 that earned him the clubhouse lead on the rain-marred opening day at Rs. 40 lakh Pune Open Golf Championship here on Wednesday.

New Delhi: A delegation from eight different countries concluded their week-long stay in India. The delegates were from Bhutan, Jamaica, Malaysia, Poland, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Tanzania and Uzbekistan.

There are many examples like Mahender Kumar, an autorickaw owner in Delhi. He has grown some 20 varieties of medicinal plants on the roof of his vehicle. He says it is his contribution to the efforts to improve Delhi’s air quality and weather. It also keeps the vehicle cool during summer.

In West Bengal, the ongoing tirade against the Border Security Force (BSF) coming from the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) is essentially old wine in new bottle.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Member of Parliament Keshava Rao sat to the right of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, who had a Covid-19 mask on. As far as the TRS was concerned, all masks were off, Keshava Rao was at the Opposition MPs’ meeting in Parliament with instructions from TRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao to dump the BJP and join the Opposition ranks.

It is another instance of the diabolic game of giving by the left hand and taking by the right, the Modi government has played a prank on people by raising LPG prices. After all the hype and hoopla about the excise duty cut, though negligible in terms of the total tax, by the Centre, following by much sermonising to the states to follow suit, the price of the LPG gas meant for commercial use has been hiked by Rs 100 per cylinder. This is the second price increase in the space of a month.

Indian Railways (IR) has been mobilizing resources from freight traffic, passenger services, sundry sources, market borrowings, budgetary and extra budgetary support from the General Exchequer for its expansion, upgradation and modernisation. Borrowing arm of IR in the Ministry of Railways is Indian Railways Finance Corporation (IRFC). In addition, Ministry of Railways also mobilises loans from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, bilateral and multilateral funding agencies with the approval of Finance Ministry. During the first half of the current fiscal year 2021-22 ending September 2021, IRFC has mobilized Rs.38,917 crore out of a total target of Rs.65,258 crore. Remaining amount of Rs.26, 341 crore will be mobilized in the second half of the current financial year. With this, total borrowings till September end 2021 raised by IRFC stand at Rs.3, 42,697 crore over the corresponding period ending September 2020 at Rs. 2,45,349.32 crore, up by 40 per cent. Assets under management leased by IRFC to the Railways are worth Rs.3,82,17, as on September 30, 2021.

Recently, the Chief Minister of Punjab, Charanjit Singh Channi announced that his government will soon bring a law to ensure that jobs in Punjab are reserved for Punjabis. Punjab will become the fifth state to join the “75 per cent reservation for locals” bloc. Earlier, Andhra Pradesh and, Haryana had also enacted laws for domicile-based reservations in the private sector. Jharkhand has introduced a similar Bill, while Karnataka has been promising to introduce a 100 per cent reservation for Kannadigas in blue collar jobs since 2016.