Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar slammed Centre for stopping funds for schemes to combat Naxals and ‘declining’ the state’s request for a helicopter for quick deployment of forces in anti-Maoist operations, during a review meeting on Naxalism, organized by the Home Ministry. Kumar lashed out at Centre saying that, “the[Read More…]
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Railways gets Rs 500 cr from Nirbhaya fund to install CCTVs
The Indian Railways has been allotted a portion of the Nirbhaya fund to implement a continuing scheme to install CCTV surveillance systems at railway stations, ladies special trains and women compartments in suburban trains. The state owned transporter was unable to implement the composite security plan that incorporates the job[Read More…]
Osmania University to raise funds from internal resources
Snapdeal in talks for a potential sale
Indian e-commerce company Snapdeal after having struggled to raised funds is in talks with Paytm-E-Commerce and Flipkart India for a potential sale as per LiveMint reports. However, the talks are still in its initial stages, Japan’s SoftBank which has invested roughly $900 million of the $2 billion or so raised by Snapdeal,[Read More…]
1 lakh crore fund for Railways safety upgrade
After over a decade the government is ready to invest extra money into the Railways for critical safety upgrades by creating a special fund. The five-year, Rs 1 lakh crore Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK). This will be considering a long-pending wish of the railway passenger in the wake of[Read More…]
Supreme Court clears funds for India-England series to continue
The Supreme Court allowed the BCCI to incur expenses of Rs 1.33 crore for holding the remaining two cricket Test matches between India and England scheduled at Mumbai and Chennai respectively, reports PTI. The court also approved expenses of Rs 25 lakh for the six matches (three ODIs and three[Read More…]