The national carrier, which has a debt burden of more than Rs 50,000 crore, has been making loss for long and as part of revival efforts, the government has decided on disinvestment.
The minimum support price (MSP) of toria was fixed at Rs 3,900 per quintal for 2018-19 rabi season.
The Blue and White party dismissed the proposal, saying in a statement that the party was "engaged in efforts to avoid costly and unnecessary elections, and not with empty spin aimed at bringing back an election method that has shattered the governance and political system in this country in the past and resulted in complete failure".
UP government on Sunday announced steps being taken by the government to help the family of the Unnao rape victim who died in Delhi's Safdarjung hospital on Friday. Mukesh Meshram, Lucknow Commissioner, announced that the government had decided to give 24 hours security to the victim's family amid major death threats that they had been getting.
The government on Thursday said it is working on rules to mandate social media companies to identify and remove child sexual abuse material, rape images and content promoting terrorism without affecting privacy.
A total of 812 candidates were recommended for central civil services on the basis of the 2018 test, it said. The civil services examination is conducted annually to select officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) among others.
There is no proposal to provide onions at an uniform rate across the country, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday.
Minister of State for Corporate Affairs Anurag Singh Thakur told the Lok Sabha on Monday that the ministry through its RoCs (Registrar of Companies) files prosecutions against companies that have not filed financial statements from time to time.
The council, chaired by the Union Finance Minister, has ministers in-charge of finance or taxation from all states as members. "At present, there is no proposal to reduce taxes on petrol and diesel," Sitharaman said in response to a question on whether the government proposes to reduce taxes so thatprices of petrol and diesel would come down.
"Today is Constitution Day and people in power are circumventing the values of the Constitution and weakening the power of the people in a democracy by promoting money power," Priyanka Gandhi tweeted.
Official sources said no decision has been taken on this but the names are being considered on the basis of the current government stake in them and also the nature of their operation where the private sector is already present and is largely non-strategic.
Rajya Sabha members had on Wednesday sought amendments in certain provisions of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, that seeks to ban commercial surrogacy in India.
The government is finalizing new IT rules for social media companies that would mandate traceability of originator of information on such platforms and removal of malicious content within 24 hours of notice, Parliament was informed on Thursday.
While the move will give Rs 42,000 crore relief to Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio, the government is unlikely to intervene in the Supreme Court-mandated statutory payments, top sources said.
Last month, the Facebook-owned company had showed that Indian journalists and human rights activists were among those globally spied upon by unnamed entities using Pegasus spyware.
To another question on the number of sedition cases filed against persons who criticised and doubted surgical strikes conducted by the Army, Reddy said "no such data" is available with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) as on date.
The minister was asked about the government's intentions on the subject as there have been reservations on this count both by the Assam Rifles and the Army brass.
Calling air pollution as one of the biggest global environmental challenges, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in January 2019 launched the 'National Clean Air Programme' (NCAP).
Investors across the country have complained on social media to the Prime Minister's Office, (PMO), Finance Ministry and markets regulator, and SEBI, seeking their payouts.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led saffron party will lead the government in Maharashtra for the next "25 years" and not just five years, claimed Raut while talking to reporters here.
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