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BJP offered me Delhi CM’s post: Vishwas
Coal shortage threatens to cripple power supply in North
Pay night duty allowance to ordnance factory workers: CAT
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Jan Dhan scheme will not burden banks, says govt
Muzaffarnagar tense after fresh violence
Indian Army officer goes missing in Europe
VVIP chopper deal: Italian firm let off with fine
Navi Mumbai airport: Proposal date
extended Saradha scam: Mamata blames CPM Dikshit fails to appear in court, fined
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BJP offered me Delhi CM’s post: Vishwas
New Delhi, August 30 Vishwas, who had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls from Amethi against Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, claimed that the BJP MP had made the proposal at a meeting in his Ghaziabad residence. Though Vishwas refused to name the BJP MP, AAP’s key leader Sanjay Singh said it was Manoj Tiwari who had made the offer. Scotching reports about his alleged involvement, Tiwari said it was a “conspiracy” to tarnish his image by some AAP leaders. “On August 19, a BJP MP, who happens to be a good friend, visited me along with other party leaders. During talks, he made an offer that I switch to the BJP and in return, I would be made the Chief Minister and that the higher-ups were aware of the move. The BJP MP said if I agreed with his proposal, he would take me to his senior leaders. I humbly declined it,” Vishwas alleged. The AAP leader’s remarks came amid indications by the BJP that it was ready to take a shot at forming the government in Delhi if invited by the Lt Governor. The BJP rubbished the claim of Vishwas and accused the AAP leader of making baseless allegations for political gain and challenged him to provide proof to back his claim. Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay said the AAP leader was raising the incident of May 19 after nearly four months. It was not only a political step, but also an attempt by Vishwas to gain TRPs like an actor of a TV serial. He said the AAP earlier tried to play power politics in the name of activism and the Right To Information and now they made allegations against the party that had got a strong mandate in the General Election. The BJP, along with its ally Akali Dal’s one MLA, had won 32 seats in the 70-member Assembly in the December polls. The number of BJP MLAs has come down to 28 as three party legislators Harsh Vardhan, Ramesh Bidhuri and Pervesh Verma have been elected to the Lok Sabha. With the effective strength of the Assembly being 67, the BJP needs support of six more MLAs to touch the majority mark of 34.
Manoj Tiwari made offer, alleges AAP leader
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Coal shortage threatens to cripple power supply in North
New Delhi, August 30 The northern region is facing over 5,000 MW of power shortage due to coal stocks drying up. Country’s largest power producer NTPC’s power stations at Sipat in Chhattisgarh and Badarpur and Jhajjar in Haryana reported zero fuel stocks on August 28, as per latest data by the Central Electricity Authority
(CEA). Jhajjar power plant is a joint venture between NTPC, Delhi Government and Haryana Government. Sources said the situation at this plant has been deteriorating from the past 10 days. The capacity of Jhajjar plant may be brought down to one-third from 1,500 MW due to non-availability of fuel. Jhajjar plant gets coal from the Mahanadi and Northern Coalfields. The power from this plant is supplied to the states of Haryana, Punjab,
Rajasthan, Telangana etc. NTPC’s 705 MW Badarpur station in the state is also bearing the brunt of coal shortage and be asked to run at a lower capacity if fuel supply is further disrupted. The firm’s 2,980 MW Sipat plant, that has already halted power generation from one of its unit, may even be forced to shut down other units. When contacted, a Power Ministry official said, “These power stations got top priority for coal supply to avert any generation loss at least on account of coal shortage.” As per CEA data, nearly one-fourth of the country’s 100 thermal power stations have less than four days of fuel stocks. Of the 27 plants, six plants had nil fuel stocks on Thursday. Over half of the plants have less than a week’s stock.
— PTI Staring at crisis
The northern region is facing over 5,000 MW of power shortage due to coal stocks drying up Country's largest power producer NTPC's power stations at Sipat in Chhattisgarh and Badarpur and Jhajjar in Haryana reported zero fuel stocks on August 28, as per latest data by the Central Electricity
Authority The capacity of Jhajjar plant may be brought down to one-third from 1,500 MW due to non-availability of fuel
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Pay night duty allowance to ordnance factory workers: CAT
Chandigarh, August 30 Employees working in the ordnance factories are entitled to receive a night duty allowance as recommended by the central pay commissions on the same pattern as it is being paid to government employees working in other departments, the CAT said
in its ruling. As many as 1,603 ordnance factory employees had filed a petition in the CAT, contending that although employees of some defence units are being paid a night duty allowance as per the Fifth and Sixth Central Pay Commissions, the same was denied to workmen of the Ordnance Factory Board. The CAT observed that this was a fit case to direct the respondents to calculate and pay night duty allowance payable to industrial employees working in the respondents’ factoryon the basis of the revised basic pay and allowances drawn by them with effect from January 1996 and January 2006 in accordance with the Fifth and Sixth Pay Commission’s recommendations, respectively, along with arrears with effect from January 1996. Recently, the MoD has also clarified that industrial employees of the Ordnance Factory Board are entitled to 30 days of earned leave with wages, for each completed year of service irrespective of the number of years of service rendered by the employee. The Ordnance Factory Board, the government’s oldest and largest industrial organisation, consists of 41 factories and nine training institutes with a total workforce of 1,64,000 employees.
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Jan Dhan scheme will not burden banks, says govt
New Delhi, August 30 The Finance Ministry in a statement said the experience of certain banks was observed and it was found that financial inclusion makes a reasonable business case for the banks due to current and savings account deposits from such accounts. The PMJDY will develop infrastructure for direct benefit transfer (DBT) schemes to be rolled-out soon. This will improve governance and plug leakages. In principle approval of 2% commission to be paid for the DBT Scheme has already been granted. At present, an accidental insurance scheme is part of the RuPay Debit Card. The National Payments Corporation of India pays the premium out of the revenue generated from card transactions. There is no burden on the banks, the statement said. The guidelines for the life insurance cover announced by the PM will be issued shortly. There will be no burden on the banks on this account. The ministry said Rs 5,000 overdraft limit would be given after satisfactory operation of the account for six months.
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Muzaffarnagar tense after fresh violence
Muzaffarnagar, August 30 The boys were rescued by the police and were admitted to hospital. Irate protesters laid a siege at a police station demanding action against those who had beaten up the boys. The police have registered a case against 150 people for the violence and named three of them. SP Sarvan Kumar told reporters here on Saturday that some people tried to block the road at Meenakshi Chowk here last evening but additional forces were rushed and the situation brought under control. Security has been tightened and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in sensitive areas in
Muzaffarnagar. The western Uttar Pradesh district has witnessed a string of communal incidents since the riots in September last year that left over 60 people dead and hundreds of others displaced.
— PTI
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Indian Army officer goes missing in Europe
New Delhi, August 30 The officer, who is from the elite Bangalore-based 2 Para Special Force,
had gone on leave to participate in adventure activities. The officer, who is in the rank of Captain, was in Spain as part of a six-day international para-jumping festival and later at another spot in Norway. That was his last known destination. He has not contacted anybody since August 15 and is not in touch over phone and using his facebook account. His leave has ended and that raised the issue with the Army headquarters. The Army contacted the officer’s father, who is also as unaware of the whereabouts, sources said. Sources said possibilities of officer critically injuring himself and him opting to stay on in the European country had been ruled out for now. The possibility that he is at a location that does not have a communication network is not ruled out. For this a track of his phone and Facebook account will reveal his last known spot.
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Armyman killed in Kupwara gun battle
Srinagar, August 30 Saturday’s encounter took place at Baron Gali, Kalaroos, 125 km from here, when troops were passing through the area. “A contact with militants was reestablished at 1 am resulting in one soldier of 28 RR Chaman Yadu attaining martyrdom and another getting injured. The injured soldier was evacuated to Drugmulla field hospital. The operation is in progress,” a defence official said. The exchange of firing continued till this morning and, sources said, two-three militants were caught in
the cordon.
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VVIP chopper deal: Italian firm let off with fine
New Delhi, August 30 The Ministry of Defence had recently barred the company from any future contracts but allowed existing contracts to continue. The CBI has registered a case against 13 persons in the VVIP helicopter deal. The company is worth 16 billion Euro (Rs 1,28,000 crore) and deals with ship-building designs, avionics, aviation and guns besides being a supplier to major European firms already functioning in India. The Italian Government holds 30% stake in the company, which is involved in defence projects worth Rs 30,000 in India. The company statement today said the judge for pre-trial investigations of the Court of Busto Arsizio (Italy) has decided to endorse the imposition of 80,000-Euro fine regarding AgustaWestland SpA and 300,000-Euro fine, alongside the confiscation of 7.5 million Euros, regarding AgustaWestland Ltd. Both companies are subsidiaries of the Finmeccanica group. On July 25, the Italian prosecutor had discontinued investigations against Finmeccanica acknowledging the non-involvement of the company in the alleged wrongdoing, the company statement said.
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Amid fresh speculation about the BJP considering taking a shot at power, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas today claimed a BJP MP had offered that he would be made the Delhi Chief Minister if he switched side along with some AAP MLAs, drawing a sharp rebuttal from the BJP which said legal action was being explored against him.
New Delhi, August 30
