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Om Prakash Kohli

OP Kohli is the acting governor of MP

  BHOPAL: On Thursday afternoon, Om Prakash Kohli, the governor of Gujarat, took oath as the acting governor of Madhya Pradesh. As the state’s ex-governor Ram Naresh Yadav’s tenure ended on 7th of September, Rajendra Menon, the acting chief justice of MP administered the oath to Om Prakash Kohli, who had been assigned MP’s additional charge by the President Pranab Mukherjee. Kohli will be the acting governor of Madhya Pradesh until the new governor is appointed. Several cabinet Ministers of the state government, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, ex-Chief Ministers Sundralal Patwa, Babulal Gaur and Kailash Joshi attended the ceremony. 

Uttar Pradesh cm

Quick action changes the perception: UP CM

Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav said in a meeting that, quick and effective action in land grabbing cases and crimes against women would improve the perception of the law and order amongst the people. He said that, the district officials must reach the spot whenever any crime takes place and the officials would be held responsible for any flare-up. “Police officials need to gear up for the forthcoming festive season and for the assembly elections that take place next year. The officials should act against the guilty without discriminating against any section of people and without succumbing to any kind of political pressure, Akhilesh added. The Chief Minister also said, “The state government is taking steps to effectively implement the ‘Dial 100’ project to ensure that the police reach the spot quickly”.

Ankur Narayanlal Panwar

Court awards death penalty to an attacker

  On Thursday, Ankur Narayanlal Panwar, a Delhi resident has been awarded with death penalty by a special court for attacking his neighbor Preeti Rathi with sulfuric acid in the year 2013. Ujjwal Nikam, the special public prosecutor said that, the convict had one sided love for the victim. Panwar wanted to marry Preeti and asked her not to travel to Mumbai, but Preeti had rejected the marriage proposal and went to Mumbai to take up the job. Out of jealousy Panwar followed her and threw acid as soon as she got out of the train. Amar Rathi, the victim’s father said that, he was full satisfied by the verdict, Justice had been done to their daughter.

Transactions

ICICI started an automation drive

  MUMBAI: On Thursday, ICICI bank said that, it had started an automation drive to use machines and codes in many operations and was targeting to increase the shares of automated transactions by the end of the current fiscal year to 20% of the overall non- digital transactions.Chanda Kochhar, the chief executive and the managing director said to the reporters that, they were the first domestic and one of the few global banks to adopt ‘Software Robotics’ in their operations. They were already using that in 200 processes which represent 10% of their overall transactions. She added that, till then, the bank had been able to save nearly 60% in response time for customers using the mechanical interventions and would also be saving on costs through better utilization of human resources.

United States president

Obama praised PM’s vision of innovation

  VIENTIANE: On Thursday, the president of United States, Barack Obama said in a meeting that, the Goods and Services Tax, which had been passed by the Indian parliament in the month of August, would unleash significant economic activity. The sources said that, Barack Obama praised Narendra Modi in a meeting that had been held at the 11th East Asia Summit with the Prime Minister. During the meeting both the leaders Obama as well as Modi discussed the immediate priorities between India and US with regard to the strategic partnership and the US president praised Modi’s vision of entrepreneurship and innovation according to the sources.

Vijay Mallya

Mallya will continue as the chairman: UBL

  BENGALORE: On Thursday, United Breweries Ltd Management supporting Vijay Mallya, the embattled liquor nabob, said that, Mallya would continue to be the chairman of UBL. Chug Yogendra Pal, the director of the company, while replying to a query, said that, UBL had tried to obtain legal opinion from an ex- chief justice of India. Chug also said, “Vijay Mallya can continue as the chairman of the company as per the law. The enforcement directorate has not attached any properties and shares of UBL as of now”.  Mallya was not disqualified to be the chairman of the company, Pal added.

Tejaswi Yadav

Nitish is more capable than Modi: Tejaswi

  On Wednesday, Mohammad Nemetullah, the spokesperson and the MLA of RJD party accompanied Tejaswi Prasad Yadav in launching a programme. A part of the programme says that, every Wednesday RJD party Ministers must be present to meet and to solve the problems of the workers and the others at the party’s office. At the party office, Tejaswi Yadav, the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar said that, the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was more capable for the Prime Minister post than Narendra Modi. Apart from being the CM of Bihar for the fourth time, Nitish Kumar had served as a Minister at the Centre and had been a member of the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council.

Uber

Uber announces new features in driver app

  NEW DELHI: Uber is going to introduce safety features internationally on the cab aggregator’s driver app as the distracted drivers are meeting with accidents. These safety features would let them manage as well as monitor the driving better.  At first the update would be introduced in Bangalore and later to the other cities. Uber’s head of safety for public policy, Dorothu chou said that, while alcohol was the leading cause of traffic crashes, there were other behaviors that could put people at risk, including distracted and unsafe driving. On Thursday, they were announcing new features in the driver app to help reduce the risks going forward, she added. The update is going to include daily reports, messages, speed display and reminders to the driver app.

Reliance Industries

Mukesh won’t be losing money

  Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries is India’s richest person. He recently said in an interview that, Reliance Jio Infocomm was not just a telecom operator, but would in time drive waves of innovation including the internet of thing, driverless cars and virtual reality. Mukesh said that, they were focusing on stabilizing the connectivity business, which had seen an overwhelming response in the first few days since the official launch of services. He could assure that they were not going to lose the money that had been invested on Jio. They were not looking to make a killing, but they were looking to make a high-teens return on their capital, Ambani added.

rajdhani

Flexi fares will be introduced by Railways

  NEW DELHI: It has been decided by the Ministry of Railways to introduce Flexi fares for Duronto, Shatabdi and Rajadhani trains. From 9th of September, the new development would come into force. These fares are same as surge prices of OLA as well as Uber. The price of the services is directly proportional to the demand of the product. The press release of Railway Ministry said that, the base fares would increase by 10 percent with every 10 percent of the berths sold subject to a prescribed ceiling limit and there would be no change in the existing fares for 1AC class and EC class of travel. The release also said that, tickets under current booking would be sold at the last price for that class and other supplementary charges like reservation fee, superfast charges, catering charges, service tax, etc., as applicable would be levied in full.

Nirmala Sitharaman

FDI can’t happen in multi-brand retail

  On Wednesday, the government said that, foreign direct investment can happen in multi brand retail trading only when farmers and retailers were provided with enough resources to face the competition in the market. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Commerce and Industry minister was asked about the government’s opposition towards foreign direct investment in the multi brand retail trading.  To which she responded saying, “We welcome anybody...but if some way this dialogue is moving towards why not (FDI in) multi-brand retail in India? My answer is, 'not yet'.” She said that, India was trying to fix issues of last mile connectivity, inadequate infrastructure and farmers’ empowerment before the country could even begin to consider opening up foreign direct investment in multi brand retail.

Cauvery dispute

Centre must solve Cauvery issue: Congress

  Nagma, the congress party’s leader vigorously said that, the Centre should take a stand and resolve the issue related to the river Cauvery at the earliest. According to her, Modi should get out from his “Mann ki Baat”, should be more proactive in such issues and should take some decisions. The Congress leader stated that, while Rahul Gandhi had come to the surface, walked between the people and talked with them, the PM was busy roaming around abroad. She also added that, they stand by the people of Tamil Nadu and they would definitely forward the issue to their higher command. Earlier Karnataka government has been directed to release 15000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu in the next ten days by the Supreme Court. With regard to the Supreme Court’s order, Nagma said that, the chief minister of Karnataka was working as instructed by the Court and since the case was Sub judice, everyone needs to wait.

Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go hurts religious sentiments

  On Wednesday, notices were issued by the Gujarat High Court to the Centre, to the State government and to the San- Francisco based games developer Niantic Inc., with regard to the petition against the game Pokemon Go. Advocate Nachiketa Dave said that, the petitioner Ajay Dave stated that the game hurts the religious sentiments of Hindus as well as Jains and that was her key contention. She says that, those who succeed are rewarded with obnoxious eggs and offering eggs to people in temples, even in virtual world, is highly objectionable. Nachiketa added that, lot of accidents took place as the players were getting engrossed in playing the game.  The game had been already banned in countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran due to religious and safety concerns.

Mohammad Shahbuddin

Shahbuddin was granted bail by HC

  PATNA: On Wednesday, Mohammad Shahbuddin, the controversial RJD leader was granted bail by the High Court of Patna. Justice Jitendra Mohan Sharma granted bail to Shahbuddin with regard to the murder case of a witness. Y V Giri, the counsel of the petitioner, said that, the allegation against Shahbuddin in killing Rajiv Roshan, who was a witness, was baseless as he was lodged in Bhagalpur jail while the incident took place in Siwan in the year 2015. He also said that, his client had secured bail in all cases that were against him and would walk out of the jail soon. 

Supreme Court

FIRs must be uploaded online in 24 hours

  NEW DELHI: It has been directed by the Supreme Court that, all the First Information Reports with regard to cognizable offences should be uploaded within 24 hours on the police websites of the states. FIRs related to sensitive cases that are in reference with sexual offences and terrorism have been exempted from the order by the court. SC said that, in the absence of state police websites, the reports could be uploaded on state government’s website and if the internet connectivity was unavailable, they could be uploaded within 48 hours of their registration.

NSG: Insurgents should be addressed

  NEW DELHI:  In an internal report that has been prepared by National Bomb Data Centre, National Security Guard said that, in order to deal effectively with terrorism, public support and insurgents in some parts of the nation should be addressed.  According to the report, administrative, political and social failures make people susceptible to the extremist doctrines and these failures also lead to alienation as well as anti-India propaganda. Public support to terrorist and insurgents continue in some parts of the country. The acts of terrorism would continue until and unless public support to anti-national elements stops, said the report.It added that, sincere efforts were required to mitigate the improvised explosive devices menace.

Rs 18.86 lakh were spent by power ministry

  NEW DELHI: According to the recent information which had been obtained through RTI, Rs 18.86 lakh were spent on the improvisation of visitor space in Piyush Goyal’s office by the power ministry, which said that, that was necessary on functional grounds. A spokesperson of power ministry said that, no money was spent on the renovation of the office but, creating additional sitting space and rearranging the existing space in the minister’s office premises was necessitated on functional grounds in the year 2014. “This has been done to accommodate most of the officers and staff members at one place as the minister is entrusted with the charge of three ministries i.e., coal, new and renewable energy and power” said the spokesperson.

SBI shuts down 200 SBT branches

  Two hundred branches of State Bank of Travanacore might be shut by the State Bank of India. Official sources had informed the bank union that over 200 SBT branches in the state were up for closure and the general secretary of SBT employees union, K.S Krishna said that they would apprehend more closures. According to Mr. Krishna, there would be a surplus of 2500 employees because of the closure of the branches. Managing director SBI, the in charge of the merger, Dinesh Khara said that, there would be no job losses and the manpower rendered surplus due to the merger or closure of administrative setups would be redeployed.

Ashutosh was summoned by NCW

  Aam Aadmi Party spokesperson, Ashutosh has been summoned by National Commission for Women with regard to a recent blog which had been posted by him defending the suspended Minister of Delhi, Sandeep Kumar. A notice has been sent to the AAP spokesperson on behalf of the chairperson of NCW, Laliha Kumaramagalam. As per the notice, Ashutosh must present himself at the Jasola commission’s office at 11:30 AM on Thursday. Considering the gravity of the matter, he was thereby required to give an explanation for issuing statements that compromise the status and the dignity of women, the notice said. The commission said, “The notice is issued in response to an objectionable and obnoxious article published as blog on the website of a popular media channel based in the capital”.