
New Delhi, Feb 16 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated Jal Jan Abhiyan in Rajasthan’s Sirohi on February 16. While addressing the event virtually, PM Modi expressed his satisfaction as water conservation is becoming a people’s movement in the nation. 
“Due to such a large population, water security is an important duty for India too. It is our collective responsibility. That is why during ‘Azadi ka Amrit Kaal’, the country is viewing water as a resource for tomorrow like they say 'Jal hai toh kal hai'. ‘Jal Jan Abhiyan’ is beginning at a time when the water crisis is being globally seen as a crisis of the future. In the 21st century, the world is understanding the seriousness that the earth has limited water resources,” he added.



New Delhi, Feb 16 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated Jal Jan Abhiyan in Rajasthan's Sirohi on February 16. While addressing the event virtually, PM Modi expressed his satisfaction as water conservation is becoming a people's movement in the nation. 
"Due to such a large population, water security is an important duty for India too. It is our collective responsibility. That is why during 'Azadi ka Amrit Kaal', the country is viewing water as a resource for tomorrow like they say 'Jal hai toh kal hai'. 'Jal Jan Abhiyan' is beginning at a time when the water crisis is being globally seen as a crisis of the future. In the 21st century, the world is understanding the seriousness that the earth has limited water resources," he added.

Water conservation becoming people's movement in nation: PM Modi

Water conservation becoming people’s movement in nation: PM Modi

CK Birla group firm Orient Cement Ltd on Sunday reported a 38.3 per cent decline in net profit to Rs 42.07 crore for the March quarter.
The company reported a net profit of Rs 68.19 crore in the year-ago period, according to a regulator filing from Orient Cement Ltd (OCL).
Its revenue from operations was down 7.07 per cent to Rs 825.18 crore in the March quarter. It was Rs 888.02 crore in the corresponding period a year ago.
OCL's total expenses were down 2.61 per cent to Rs 764.96 crore in the March quarter.
Its total income, which includes other income, was down 7 per cent in the March quarter at Rs 832.84 crore.
For the entire 2024-25 fiscal year, OCL reported a decline of 47.8 per cent in profit to Rs 91.24 crore from Rs 174.85 crore a year earlier.
Its total income was down 14.7 per cent to Rs 2,728.69 crore for the financial year, which ended on March 31, 2025. It was Rs 3,200.60 crore in FY24.
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Its revenue from operations was down 7.07 per cent to Rs 825.18 crore in the March quarter. It was Rs 888.02 crore in the corresponding period a year ago

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The large domestic market, which includes a big untapped segment, will help airlines, the company's Chief Executive Pieter Elbers told PTI in an interaction.
"Some of the more recent dynamics and the global scale are not changing any of our capacity (expansion) plans for next year," he said.
He, however, said a major economy like India cannot be insulated from a major world event like the tariff wars.
Elbers said the company is desirous of doubling its size by the end of the decade and the same will not be impacted.
The long-term trajectory for the business is one of growth, and the company will not be affected if there is a quarter of a blip or higher achievement as well, he said.
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The country has harvested 38 per cent of the total wheat area of an estimated 32 million hectare so far in the ongoing 2025-26 marketing season, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Sunday.
In view of the possibility of good yield of various rabi crops, Chouhan directed the officials to make better procurement arrangements for farmers.
Wheat "harvesting conditions are better" in key growing states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Bihar, the minister said in a statement.
The government has set a wheat procurement target of 31 million tonnes for the 2025-26 marketing season (April-March).
As per the official data, farmers have completed harvesting in 91 per cent of the total rabi pulse areas, 87 per cent of oilseeds area, 70 per cent of Shree Anna and coarse cereals area and 33 per cent of rice area as on April 4.
About 59 per cent of the total rabi crops area has been harvested as on April 4 across the country.
Besides rabi crops like

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Eight people, including two women, were killed and seven others injured in a fire accident at a firecracker manufacturing unit in the Anakapalli district of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday.
"Eight people, including two women, died, and seven others were injured in the fire accident. While the injured are being shifted to hospitals, further details are awaited," State Home Minister V Anitha told PTI.
The accident occurred at around 12:45 pm, and officials are currently focused on recovering the bodies and shifting the injured to hospitals.
Locals are also assisting the police at the scene, a police official said.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu expressed shock over the incident and directed Minister Anitha and district officials to ensure proper medical care for the injured, an official release said.
CM Naidu also ordered an inquiry into the incident and asked officials to submit a report to him.
YSRCP chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy also expressed shock and urged the gover

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Infrastructure spends across projects have been pegged at Rs 35,151 crore or 87 per cent of the overall expenditure, as per an official statement. The revenues have been estimated at Rs 36,939 crore, and the body chaired by Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will be borrowing Rs 22,000 crore.
This will result in a budget deficit of Rs 3,249 crore, which the body plans to bridge through land sales, issuance of bonds, financial assistance from the government, and loans from financial institutions, the statement said.
The ongoing metro line projects have been earmarked Rs 10,969 crore of expenditure in the new fiscal, which is a fourth of the overall expenditure..
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The House also returned the Appropriation Bill (3) with a voice vote.
Earlier in the day, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had moved the two bills in the House.
The Lok Sabha had passed the Finance Bill on March 25 and passed the Appropriation Bill on March 21.
Replying to the debate later in the evening, she said the tendency of the finance ministry would be to exercise caution and not let go of revenues.
"But, here we wanted to use this opportunity to show our respect for Indian taxpayer. We have moved towards setting Rs 12 lakh as threshold up to which no one will have to pay any tax," Sitharaman said.
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