New Delhi: Air India, Bharat Petroleum Corporation will be sold by March, 2020, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday in an interview with the Times of India. “We are moving on both with the expectation that we can complete them this year. The ground realities will play out,” she told TOI in an exclusive interview. Sitharaman said there is a “lot of interest” among investors as evident in international road shows ahead of the sale of Air India. A year ago, the loss-...Read More

New Delhi: Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi attended the All Parties Leaders meeting here today. Leaders from all major political parties were present on this occasion and they put forth their views on the upcoming session of Parliament. In his remarks, Prime Minister observed that this session of the Parliament will be a special occasion for it will mark the 250th session of the Rajya Sabha and expressed his happiness that special events and activities were being planned to mark this occasi...Read More

Gandhinagar: With an aim to drastically bring down the children's mortality rate from pneumonia, the single largest infectious cause of death in children across the globe, the Union Health and Family Welfare Department launched a nation-wide initiative Social Awareness and Actions to Neutralise Pneumonia Successfully (SAANS) from here today. After the launch of the campaign during the inaugural session of the three day 6th National Summit on Goods and Replicable Practices and Innovat...Read More

Surat: Lok Sabha member of Navsari, CR Patil today in a statement said Surat airport expansion project has received environmental clearance from ministry of environment and forest, government of India. Patil said the extension work of Surat airport was possible only after environment clearance certificate from the Centre which was pending. Due to lack of env. clearance certificate Rs. 201 crore works were stalled out of Rs. 360 crore grand approved for the project. Patil said he had made...Read More

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijaybhai Rupani today sanctioned a Rs. 249.61-Crore worth ‘Lift Irrigation Scheme’ based on Panam Dam in Panchmahal district to supply irrigation waters to deprive eastern-belt areas. The scheme would benefit irrigation waters to the villages of Sehra, Godhara, Kalol, and Ghoghmba tehsils of the district. The scheme would provide irrigation waters to as many as 85 tribal dominated villages of Panchmahal district. Under the scheme the irrigation water w...Read More

Gandhinagar: Ruling BJP will organize state-wide protest tomorrow against the alleged falsehood of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Rafale issue. State president of the party Jeetu Vaghani said that the while rejecting the pleas challenging the Rafale deal, the Supreme court yesterday clarified that the process was transparent and as per the laid procedure. He said that this has exposed the falsehood of Rahul Gandhi on Rafale issue on which he had tried to misled the...Read More

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday gave clean chit to the Modi government on the purchase of 36 fully loaded Rafale fighter jets from French company Dassault Aviation, rejecting the plea for registration of an FIR by the CBI for alleged commission of cognisable offence in the deal. The apex court in two separate but concurring verdicts said the review petitions were without merit and required to be dismissed. The top court rejected the pleas seeking review of the December 14, 2018 verdi...Read More