The statement was signed by 15 former judges, 77 ex-all India services officers and 25 veterans.
India's infrastructure sector is poised for a big leap and offers significant investment opportunities for US businesses and other investors, Planning Commission Member B K Chaturvedi has said.
The government may take a crucial decision on Saturday to withdraw from a score of small centrally-sponsored schemes and programmes whose annual budget is less than Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion).
The CEOs, sources said, also discussed the steps to raise domestic production of coal.
In talks with Nigeria, Kenya & Niger for development of transmission system.
A team will look into the deal between Antrix Corporation and a private company for lease of S-band spectrum.
The move was being made considering the poor flight services in the region comprising Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, Planning Commission member B K Chaturvedi said.
Environment is holding up growth and economic development is a common refrain.
Holding the tour agency guilty of providing deficient service to its customer Sweta Singh, District Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum president C K Chaturvedi asked it pay her Rs 15,000 as compensation besides refunding another sum of Rs 57,000 to her that she had spent due to botched up management of her trip by the agency.
Both B K Chaturvedi and Rodham Narasimha, who have been named on the panel, participated in the approval process for the ISRO-Devas deal.
The committee headed by Planning Commission Member B K Chaturvedi would be submitting its report to the Prime Minister by Thursday. Sources said the committee proposes to introduce an exit clause for the lead partner in a special purpose vehicle for any project besides relaxing the termination norms.
This follows concern expressed by environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh over poor public allocations for research on the impact of climate change in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
With domestic production of just over 140 million standard cubic meters per day meeting barely half the demand, India is importing 10 million tons of liquefied natural gas per annum and is looking at unconventional sources like shale gas.
The move, if accepted, will help resolve nearly one-third of the 1,200 cases on payments pending in various courts in the country.
The B K Chaturvedi committee set up to recommend ways to implement road projects faster and more efficiently, has recommended that the National Highways Authority of India be given sovereign guarantees on the loans it raises from the market.
A 48-year-old man succumbed to swine flu at the SSG Hospital in Vadodara on Sunday morning, pushing the total number of H1N1 deaths in Gujarat to six. Hasmukh Hingu was admitted to the government-run hospital on August 20 with respiratory distress syndrome and had been in a critical stage since then. Hingu tested positive for swine flu on Saturday. With this, the nation-wide toll due to the H1N1 pandemic has risen to 64, hospital authorities said.
The Planning Commission on Wednesday said that the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) is likely to miss the deadline of April 1, but it could be introduced in the next fiscal only.
The company plans to raise Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion) through this offer.
The Left-leaning trade union CITU on Tuesday condemned the high-powered B K Chaturvedi Committee's call for raising fuel prices every month till they are in line with costs saying the panels' report should be outrightly rejected.
In the first two years, we spent Rs 15,000 crore, which was more than our target, says S K Chaturvedi, CMD, Power Grid Corp.
The panel has been asked to analyse the cash flows and the profitability of all three groups of companies so as to get a clear picture of the changes taking place in their operating positions, particularly the impact on access to credit and cash availability of their operations. It would also revisit the concept of 'under recoveries' and examine the reported deficit and the real deficit faced by oil marketing companies as a result of price constraints imposed on them.
HIN1 virus deaths continued unabated with a 44-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man succumbing to the virus in Delhi and Bangalore, pushing the toll to 76 as 137 more contracted the infection across the country.
Three persons were killed and 50 others, including 15 policemen, were injured in police firing and clashes after agitating farmers -- who were demanding adequate compensation for their acquired land in Greater Noida -- turned violent.Farmers had been on protest mode for the past few days and were demanding enhanced compensation for their land, which was acquired in 2006 by the Uttar Pradesh government. The police opened fire to bring the situation under control.
Reliance India Limited, which has secured a licence to set up 5,849 petrol stations, will set up its first 500 by March next year, petroleum secretary B K Chaturvedi said on Tuesday.
The irony, of course, is that even the suggestion that the petroleum and natural gas ministry thought was practical and workable has few takers in the government. Among the many suggestions on petroleum product prices, the Chaturvedi Committee had recommended dual pricing of diesel.
The chief executive officer of a company was on Monday beaten to death by a group of dismissed employees inside office premises after a meeting, called to resolve dispute between them and management, failed.
The Prime Minister-appointed B K Chaturvedi panel is believed to have suggested raising fuel prices every month to bring them at par with production cost and has sought imposition of a 'Super Profit Tax' on oil fields awarded before 1999.
A 1970 Kerala-cadre IAS officer, Chandrasekhar has been revenue secretary in the Finance Ministry and ambassador and permanent representative at the World Trade Organisation.
Most of the changes have come about in the last four years and ITC is now reaping the dividends - standalone revenues from the non-cigarettes FMCG business have grown 40 per cent from FY17 to Rs 14,728.21 crore in FY21 and pre-tax profits 30 times to Rs 823.69 crore. The business accounted for 30.58 per cent of gross revenues and 4.85 per cent of pre-tax profits in FY21. "In the last four years, our margins in FMCG have gone up by 640 basis points (bps) and EBITDA margins have been moving up consistently. "We created levers that enabled a sustained growth trajectory," said ITC chairman and managing director Sanjiv Puri. Puri took charge as the chief executive officer in 2017; in 2018, he was redesignated managing director and effective May 2019, he became chairman.
The government is set to dump B K Chaturvedi panel's recommendation for a monthly increase in fuel prices till they are at par with costs, but may accept the high-powered committee's suggestions for imposing a tax on oil produced from fields awarded before 1999.
The high-level Chaturvedi Committee has recommended raising petrol prices by Rs 2.50 a litre per month till March 2009 and diesel prices by Rs 0.75 per litre till 2010 to eliminate subsidies on the two fuels.
An Australian woman was on Saturday shot at and wounded by a man believed to be her lover, who later committed suicide by turning the revolver on himself, in Vrindavan at Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, police said. Saurav, 28, nephew of former Uttar Pradesh minister Tejpal Singh, shot 26-year-old Leela, daughter of Susan, a resident of Perth in Australia, at Raman Reti locality at around 2 am, following an altercation between them.
According to defence ministry figures, infiltration attempts in Kashmir jumped to 83 during April, marking a four-fold increase.
If he is appointed, he will succeed Hormis P Tharakan as chief of India's external agency.
His extension order was issued on Monday.
Indian's abduction: Govt reviews situation
It began consultations with eight states, including AP, MP, Punjab and Maharashtra, which have not got adequate rains.
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