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  • Petrol price up by Rs 1.29, diesel by Rs 0.97 per litre

    Petrol price was on Sunday hiked by Rs 1.29 per litre and diesel by Rs 0.97 per litre respectively with effect from midnight tonight. Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs 70.60 per litre from midnight tonight as against Rs 68.94 currently, while a litre of diesel will cost Rs 57.82 compared to Rs 56.68 at present. The increase in rates announced by oil firms is excluding state levies and the actual hike will be higher.
    The prices were last revised on December 16, when petrol was increased by Rs 2.21 a litre while diesel was hiked by Rs 1.79 per litre. This is the third hike in petrol prices in one month and the second in case of diesel in one fortnight.
    Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) revise rates on 1st and 16th of every month based on average international price in the previous fortnight. “The current level of international product prices of petrol and diesel and Rupee-US Dollar exchange rate warrant increase in selling price of petrol and diesel, the impact of which is being passed on to the consumers with this price revision,” IOC said in a statement.
    It said the movement of prices in the international oil market and foreign exchange rate shall continue to be monitored closely, adding that developing trends of the market will be reflected in future price changes.
    With inputs from PTI

  • Indigo and SpiceJet flights avert collision at Delhi airport

    NEW DELHI: A major accident was averted at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport on Tuesday morning as two planes, an IndiGo and a SpiceJet aircraft, came face-to-face on the runway.



    According to the reports, there was a miscommunication with the Air Traffic Control.

    The IndiGo flight had arrived from Lucknow and was moving towards the taxiway while the SpiceJet flight was about to take off.

    “An Indigo flight 6C-729 which was coming from Lucknow to Delhi with 176 passengers on board, post landing on the taxi way saw a SpiceJet aircraft in front of it,” Indigo spokesperson Ajay Jesra said.

    “The incident occurred on Tuesday morning and the matter has been reported to Air Traffic Control (ATC) and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA),” Jesra said.

    Meanwhile, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered probe into the incident.

    This is the second airport runway fiasco reported this morning.

    In Goa, a Jet Airways flight skidded and took a 360-degree spin on the runway just before take-off. Some passengers were reportedly injured while being moved out of the plane on emergency slides.

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  • Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight skids off Goa airport runway, 12 hurt

    A Mumbai-bound Jet Airways flight carrying more than 150 passengers skidded off the airstrip at Goa’s Dabolim airport during take-off on Tuesday.

    Twelve fliers were hurt after jumping off the inflated escape chutes used for emergency evacuation, said sources. There were no serious injuries.
    Jet Airways issued a statement confirming that its Goa-to-Mumbai flight (9W 2374) carrying 154 passengers and seven crew members veered off the runway while aligning for take-off at 4.30am.
    “All guests and crew have been safely evacuated. Few guests have sustained injuries during the evacuation process and medical assistance is being coordinated by the Jet Airways team and the airport authorities.”
    Cellphone shots taken by airport staff showed that the aircraft’s landing gear had completely collapsed, as it sat on its fuselage (body) stuck in the mud. Some pictures also showed passengers being rushed on stretchers for medical help.
    The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has begun an inspection, news agency ANI said in a tweet. The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau will investigate the incident, ANI added.
    The flight spun 360 degrees in the aborted take-off bid. The runway was reopened round 9am.

  • CBSE for making Class X board exams mandatory

    Board exams for Class X are set to become compulsory for all CBSE students from 2018 as CBSE’s governing body on “unanimously approved” a proposal in this regard.

    At the meeting of the CBSE governing body, its members agreed that from the academic session 2017-18, compulsory board exams should be introduced for all students of Class X, sources told PTI in New Delhi.

    The decision will now have to be approved by the government before it is implemented.

    Currently, it is optional for CBSE students to choose either the board exam or a school-based examination.

    HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has in the past favoured making board exam compulsory for CBSE students as is the practice in all State boards.

    The sources said while there is a view that for the Class X Board exams, 80 per cent weightage will be given to the marks scored in examinations while 20 per cent weightage will be given to school-based evaluation.

    In another key decision, the CBSE has decided to recommend to the HRD Ministry that the three-language formula, under which Hindi, English and modern Indian language are taught, should be extended to class IX and X as well from the current VI to VIII, a source said.

    Officials added that the board also favoured sending a recommendation to the Centre that those languages which are listed in schedule VIII of the Constitution should be taught under the three-language formula while languages which are “purely foreign” should be taught as a “fourth language as an elective subject”.

    In the past the HRD Ministry-run Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) used to offer German as a third language, but the practice was later discontinued.

    The final call on these decisions will be taken by the government, a senior official said.

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    Source – The Hindu

  • Email With Tip Offs About Black Money, Says Government

    NEW DELHI: Have information about black money? Email the government at blackmoneyinfo@incometax.gov.in , Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia told reporters today. He also announced a new scheme that gives three more months to those who have black or untaxed money to declare their wealth even after December.

    “No one should think that just because they have deposited the money in banks, it becomes white,” Mr Adhia said.

    While December 30 is the last day to deposit 500 and 1,000 rupee notes banned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8, people can come clean about black money under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY).

    The scheme offers 50 per cent tax and penalty on the declaration of unaccounted deposits in banks. Those who declare their wealth under this scheme will also have to park a quarter of the sum in a non-interest deposit for four years.

    “Unaccounted cash can be disclosed under the scheme starting tomorrow till 31st March,” Mr Adhia said, adding that the scheme is not amnesty but the last window to “move out of the black money system”.

    Since the notes ban, around 316 crores has been seized in multiple raids by taxmen and around 80 crores was in brand new currency, said the official.

    Those with illegal wealth have a common modus operandi, he said, which includes deposits in multiple accounts, misusing Jan Dhan zero-deposit accounts for the poor and setting up fake companies.

    “Everyone should remember that black deposits are being watched,” Mr Adhia said, commenting that the idea is not to create an Inspector Raj but people “should realize that the department has information on people’s deposits.

    Those who tried to deposit large amounts in multiple deposits are under scrutiny, he said, assuring “non-intrusive methods”.

    Source – NDTV

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  • 500 ರೂ. ಹಳೆ ನೋಟು ಚಲಾವಣೆ ನಾಳೆ ಲಾಸ್ಟ್

    ಇಂದು ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ 14. ನಾಳೆ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ 15 ರಂದು ನೋಟು ನಿಷೇಧಕ್ಕೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದಂತೆ ಹಳೆ 500 ನೋಟು ಚಲಾವಣೆಗೆ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ನೀಡಿದ್ದ ಗಡುವು ಮುಗಿಯಲಿದೆ. ನಾಳೆ ನಂತ್ರ ಟೋಲ್, ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಕಂಪನಿ, ಎಲ್ಪಿಜಿ ಏಜೆನ್ಸಿ, ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ತೆರಿಗೆ ಇಲಾಖೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹಳೆ ನೋಟು ಚಲಾವಣೆಯಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.
    ನವೆಂಬರ್ 8 ರ ಮಧ್ಯರಾತ್ರಿಯಿಂದ 500 ಹಾಗೂ ಸಾವಿರ ಮುಖ ಬೆಲೆಯ ನೋಟುಗಳ ಚಲಾವಣೆ ಬಂದ್ ಆಗಿದೆ. ಆದ್ರೆ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಕೆಲವು ಕಡೆ ವಿನಾಯಿತಿ ನೀಡಿತ್ತು. 21 ಸ್ಥಳಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ 15 ರವರೆಗೆ ಹಳೆ ನೋಟುಗಳನ್ನು ಚಲಾವಣೆ ಮಾಡಬಹುದೆಂದು ಆದೇಶ ನೀಡಿತ್ತು.
    ನಂತ್ರ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ತನ್ನ ನಿಯಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಬದಲಾವಣೆ ಮಾಡ್ತಾ ಬಂತು. ಪೆಟ್ರೋಲ್ ಬಂಕ್, ವಿಮಾನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣದಲ್ಲಿ ಟಿಕೆಟ್ ಬುಕ್ಕಿಂಗ್, ರೈಲ್ವೆ ಟಿಕೆಟ್ ಬುಕ್ಕಿಂಗ್ ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ಅನೇಕ ಕಡೆ ಹಳೆ ನೋಟುಗಳ ಚಲಾವಣೆಯನ್ನು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ರದ್ದು ಮಾಡಿದೆ.

    ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಸಾವಿರ ರೂಪಾಯಿ ಮುಖ ಬೆಲೆಯ ನೋಟುಗಳ ಚಲಾವಣೆಯನ್ನು ಈಗಾಗಲೇ ಸಂಪೂರ್ಣವಾಗಿ ನಿಷೇಧಿಸಿದೆ. ನಾಳೆ ನಂತ್ರ ಹಳೆ ನೋಟು ಸ್ವೀಕಾರವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ 31 ರ ನಂತ್ರ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಕೂಡ ಹಳೆ ನೋಟುಗಳನ್ನು ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ನಿಧಾನ ಮಾಡದೆ ಆದಷ್ಟು ಬೇಗ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಬಳಿ ಇರುವ ಹಣವನ್ನು ಖಾತೆಗೆ ಜಮಾ ಮಾಡಿ ಬನ್ನಿ.

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  • Scrapped Indian notes sail to Dubai to end up as furniture

    Dubai, Dec 13 (IANS) After demonetisation, Indias invalid Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes are now on their way to Dubai and may end up in your living room as a piece of furniture or a photo frame, says a report in Gulf News.

    About 30 to 40 per cent of the hardboard and fibreboard products made by recycling the scrapped notes are being exported through Dubai, P.K. Mayan Mohammad, whose firm in Kerela was chosen by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to recycle the demonetised currency notes, told the Dubai-based newspaper.

    “We are exporting the fibreboards to various countries in Europe, Africa and also to Australia,” the paper quoted Mohammad, who was in Dubai, as saying.

    The locally imported boards are used for making furniture such as wardrobes, shelves, drawer bottoms, photo frames and mirror frame backing and for making partitions.

    Explaining to the newspaper how it all started, Mohammad said the RBI’s regional office in Thiruvananthapuram inquired about his firm’s capability to recycle shredded currency notes a couple of weeks before the government made the demonetisation announcement.

    The RBI approached Mohammad on October 20. However, he said he had no idea a demonetisation move was afoot at that time.

    “I thought they had decided to recycle the soiled notes instead of burning them. I, too, got to know about the demonetisation plan only when the Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) announced it,” he was quoted by Gulf News as saying.

    The company made use of the thermomechanical pulping method. “We are the only facility with this technology (in India). It uses high electrical energy, steam pressure and temperature,” he said.

    The firm started using the pulp of the invalid notes as one of the raw materials that are mixed with wood pulp for making hardboard and fibreboard.

    Once that became a success, the RBI asked the company to lift more truckloads of shredded notes.

    “We have been picking up almost 60 tonnes of shredded notes a week,” Mohammad told the paper.

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