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Orgn submits petition to PMC chief, Mayor Alleging that waste pickers deployed by SWaCH are not reaching all parts of the city, and that the agency is engaged in a monopoly, several corporators across parties at Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) last month approved a proposal to allow three private agencies to start operating in different areas. The five-year contract with SWaCH was also not renewed after it expired in December last year. Now, turning the tables, SWaCH directors on Tuesday submitted a letter to the municipal commissioner and mayor, showing the support of 110 corporators across all parties favouring retention of their service. Further, another submitted letter undersigned 6.62 lakh households showed willingness to retain the fully satisfactory SWaCH service. Over 3,500 waste collectors from the organisation conducted this survey, reaching maximum housing societies across Pune city . SWaCH representative Harshad Barde said, “The 110 elected … [Read more...] about 110 corporators, 6.62L households sign up for SWaCH service to stay

A legislator each from the Congress and the DMK resigned from their posts on Sunday, leaving the Narayanasamy-led Puducherry government grasping at straws ahead of Monday’s trust vote in the Assembly. Shortly after K. Lakshminarayanan, Congress legislator representing Raj Bhavan and Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister, submitted his resignation to Speaker V.P. Sivakolundhu at his residence, K. Venkatesan, representing Thattanchavady, became the first legislator from the ruling party’s ally, the DMK, to quit his post. In total, six MLAs, including five from the Congress, have quit, while a legislator from the national party was disqualified earlier. The resignations have brought down the House strength to 26, with the ruling combine — the Congress (9), the DMK (2) and an Independent — having only 12 legislators. The Speaker, from the Congress, can vote in a floor test only if there is a tie. In the Opposition, the AINRC has seven legislators, the AIADMK four and the … [Read more...] about Puducherry crisis deepens after two MLAs quit

The government is ready to resume talks with protesting farmers if they respond to its offer to put the three contentious farm laws on hold for one-and-a-half year and work out the difference during that time through a joint committee, Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar said Wednesday. The government and unions representing farmers, who have been camping at Delhi's border for about three months in protest against the three laws that they see will end state procurement of crops at MSP, have held 11 rounds of talks, the last being on January 22. Talks broke after widespread violence during a tractor rally by protesting farmers on January 26. Speaking on the sidelines of an event in Delhi, Tomar said the government is committed towards the interest of farmers and agriculture, and under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it is making efforts to double farmers' income and strengthen the Indian agriculture sector. The minister was replying to … [Read more...] about Govt ready for talks if farmer unions respond to offer: Tomar

New Delhi: Reliance Industries has sought bids for gas from its coal bed methane block in Madhya Pradesh. Bids have been invited for sale of 0.82 million metric standard cubic meters a day (mmscmd) of gas for a period of one year beginning April 1, according to public notice by the company. Bidders are expected to quote a price in terms of percentage of the Dated Brent, which would be the average of Platts’s benchmark rates for three months preceding the supply month. Bids cannot be lower than 9.5% of the Dated Brent. The actual price gas buyers pay will be the higher of the bid price or the domestic formula price published every six months by the Oil Ministry ’s petroleum planning and analysis cell. Potential buyers can start registering on the e-bidding platform from March 6 for the auction slated for March 18. The minimum volume one can bid for is 0.01 mmscmd. RIL has appointed CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Limited to manage the auction. … [Read more...] about Reliance seeks bids for gas from coal bed methane block in Madhya Pradesh

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Relations between China and Mongolia have entered into fast-track in recent years with fruitful results gained through practical cooperation, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday. Wang made the remarks in a telephone conversation with the newly-appointed Mongolian Foreign Minister Batmunkh Battsetseg. China attaches great importance to the friendly neighborship with Mongolia, and always puts this relation at a specially significant place in China's neighborhood diplomacy, he noted. This year is historically meaningful for both China and Mongolia as people of each country will respectively greet the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China and Mongolian People's Party, Wang said. Both sides should jointly implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of both countries, promoting greater development of the China-Mongolia comprehensive strategic partnership and bringing about … [Read more...] about Chinese FM says China-Mongolia relationship enters into fast-track