Cabinet clears Rs 10,000 crore lifeline for power projects, banks

NEW DELHI: The Cabinet on Friday invigorated the uber control arrangement for developing a life saver worth an expected Rs 10,000 crore to resuscitate coal-terminated power ventures with combined limit of more than 30,000 MW and keep banks from being troubled with an expected Rs 1.5 lakh crore focused on resources.

The strategy changes, initially revealed by TOI on March 29, are required to restore the venture atmosphere in the power part and prompt lower duty for customers by permitting these power undertakings to sign PPAs (control buy understandings) at aggressive rates.

Bringing these cutting edge elite plants will prompt reasonable and less expensive cost of energy for discoms and the last shoppers. Since these activities have a design with lower discharge rate, their culmination will likewise cut down the carbon impression of India's energy part. Mobile Number database provider

The changed bundle copies as far as possible for these plants for marking PPAs for their ability to 10 years from five years beforehand. At the same time, loan specialists will be permitted to discharge bank ensures outfitted by the promoters in extent to the limit with regards to which they sign the PPAs. Be that as it may, to defend the enthusiasm of loan specialists, the discharged assets will go to the moneylenders towards overhauling of obligation.

Source:- Timesofindia 

Indian student attacked in Poland, survives

NEW DELHI: An Indian understudy who was beaten in Poland's Pozan city has survived the assault.

A netizen named Amit Agnihotri had tweeted about the occurrence and guaranteed that the understudy had surrendered to his wounds. In light of this tweet, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj had looked for an investigate the issue from the Indian Ambassador in Poland, Ajay Bisaria.

Swaraj then addressed Bisaria in regards to the ambush on the understudy whose name was not revealed. Mobile Number database provider

In any case, it was later illuminated by Agnihotri that he has survived the assault and is in ICU for treatment of his wounds. Both Swaraj and Bisaria later affirmed the same.

Source:- Timesofindia 

Air strikes kill 22 civilians in eastern Syria: Monitor

BEIRUT: Air strikes carried out by unidentified aircraft killed at least 22 civilians, including 10 children, in a village held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a monitor said Wednesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were from two families at Hojna in Deir Ezzor, which borders Iraq and is the country's second biggest province after Homs.

The oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor is almost totally under IS control and has been regularly targeted by a US-led military coalition.

The only part of the eastern province outside of IS control is its capital, which is also named Deir Ezzor and is held by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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IS has carried out a series of attacks across Europe and has been targeted by military offensives on several fronts in Syria and Iraq, where it declared an Islamic "caliphate" in 2014.

In Syria, IS is targeted by warplanes of the US-led coalition as well as Turkey, the Syrian regime and its ally Russia in the northern province of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor and its stronghold of Raqa.

source:-Timesofindia

Donald Trump, aides outed by media for falsification amid rocky start for new president

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump began his first full work day at the White House on Monday by taking Washington out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement among twelve of the Pacific Rim countries. Trump's executive action on the work front - a withdrawal from America's global engagement -- came after a fraught, confrontational weekend with the liberal media that virtually anointed him ''Liar-in-Chief'' when he and his aides falsified facts to present his inauguration as bigger than it was.

Brewing tensions between the press corps and the Trump team exploded on Sunday after the new President and his aides challenged media accounts about the size of his inauguration rally. Trump spokesman Sean Spicer followed up his boss's denigration of the press at the CIA headquarters on Saturday by presenting at his very first briefing what was quickly shown to be false information seeking to inflate the inauguration crowd size, after accusing the media of underestimating it and admonishing it.

The data that Spicer presented was so patently bogus that it collapsed within minutes under fact-checking scrutiny, after which his associate Kellyanne Conway told the media that he was only presenting ''alternative facts.'' That euphemism for lies earned Conway an on-air rebuke (''Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods,'' one TV anchor told her bluntly) and massive social media trolling (#alternativefacts became a Twitter trend).



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The petty scrap with the media over crowd size, first initiated by Trump himself, overshadowed the chaotic debut of a Trump administration that began with only two confirmed cabinet officials and a couple of dozen White House appointees (including Trump's son-in-law) sworn in over the weekend.

Source:-Timesofindia

We shall bring back anyone who fled in fear from Kairana: Sangeet Som

Exodus of Hindu families from Kairana is a real issue and the BJP will bring back people who allegedly migrated due to fear of the Muslim majority in the area if it is voted to power, according to the party’s controversial MLA Sangeet Som, who has again got a ticket from Sardhana in western UP. In an interview to Economic Times , he dismissed the riot CD being screened from his poll vehicle, which was seized and an FIR lodged in the matter, as the handiwork of “frustrated” Samajwadi Party workers.

An objectionable CD has been seized from your campaign and the BJP is facing criticism for giving you a ticket that it is attempting polarisation in western UP by fielding those accused in Muzaffarnagar riots…

This CD is just a compilation of TV news reports in the past. The complaint has been lodged by SP workers who are frustrated. I will advise SP that elections cannot be won like this. Yeh ticket kya pehli baar di hai (Have I been given a ticket for the first time)? I am the sitting MLA from Sardhana. People in the opposition who are raising this controversy are in fact the ones trying to do polarisation. In entire western UP, and for that matter in UP, communal clashes and riots happened again and again in the last five years under the SP rule. In Sardhana, not even a stone was thrown in the last five years. This is the way Hindus and Muslims stay peacefully and harmoniously in my constituency. Yes, I fought for the people during Muzaffarnagar (riots) for the sake of saving bahu-beti ki izzat (honour of women)... seena thok ke ladai ladi (I fought openly). Some people did not like it and put me in jail. If fighting for sake of bahu-beti ki izzat, I will do it till end of my life… 887 boys are in jail for four long years now, falsely implicated for the Muzaffarnagar riots… has SP government thought of them? I have promised them that if our government comes, I will ensure they are released.

Source:-TOI

Court directs police to file report on plea against Kejriwal for 'misleading' ads

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police was today directed by a court here to file an action taken report on a criminal complaint seeking lodging of FIR against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly misleading people by saying that the municipal corporations were not under state's control.

Chief metropolitan magistrate Munish Markan called for the report from the officials of Karawal Nagar Police Station in North East Delhi after hearing arguments of the counsel for the complainant.

The court fixed the matter for April 15 for filing of the action taken report.

During the hearing, complainant Brijesh Shukla submitted in court documents relating to his claim that the Delhi Government had spent over Rs 42 lakh by giving advertisements in 20 newspapers which were allegedly misleading.

The complainant's counsel Rajesh Kumar had earlier informed the court that in an RTI reply, Delhi government has admitted that a total expense of Rs 42,01,405 was incurred in giving advertisements to the newspapers on October 30, 2015.
He had argued that public money was wasted for "spreading lies" and people were "misled".

The complainant has sought direction to the SHO of Karawal Nagar Police Station to register an FIR against Kejriwal under Section 406 (criminal breach of trust) of IPC.


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The Gambia's Yahya Jammeh's term extended by parliament

The Gambia's parliament has extended President Yahya Jammeh's term, which is due to end on Thursday following his defeat in elections, by 90 days.

It also approved his decision to declare a 90-day state of emergency in the tiny West African state.

Regional leaders have threatened to use military force to oust Mr Jammeh if he refuses to hand power to President-elect Adama Barrow on Thursday.

Thousands of UK and Dutch tourists are being evacuated from The Gambia.

The country is popular with European holidaymakers because of its beaches.

The Gambia was plunged into crisis after Mr Jammeh rejected Mr Barrow's shock victory in the 1 December election.

Regional leaders have been unsuccessfully trying to persuade him to step down.

Nigeria has deployed a warship to put further pressure on Mr Jammeh to step down.

Regional bloc Ecowas, the Economic Community of West African States, has prepared a Senegal-led force but maintains that military intervention would be a last resort.

In his televised announcement on Tuesday, Mr Jammeh said "any acts of disobedience to the laws of The Gambia, incitement of violence and acts intended to disturb public order and peace" were banned under the state of emergency.

Source:-BBC