Daily Briefing: Govt calls farm unions for talks on Dec 30; Tesla preparing to start operations in India by early 2021
Daily Briefing: Govt calls farm unions for talks on Dec 30; Tesla preparing to start operations in India by early 2021
From the government inviting protesting farm unions for another round of talks on Dec 30, to Tesla starting operations in India; here are today s top stories Updated: December 29, 2020 8:54:52 am
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Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar has a word of advice for representatives of the 40 farmer unions attending the
meeting with the Centre tomorrow. “No power could exert pressure and influence (dabbav aur prabhaav)” on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said. Tomar also claimed that the UPA government under Manmohan Singh wanted to enact the farm laws but could not with the pressure and influence.
Nitin Gadkari confirms Tesla coming to India in ‘early 2021’
Gadkari said Tesla will start operations first with sales and then maybe look at assembly and manufacturing based on the response to the cars. Updated: December 29, 2020 1:48:49 pm
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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and the Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Nitin Gadkari on Monday told The Indian Express Idea Exchange programme that US clean energy and electric vehicle company Tesla will “start operations” in India in early 2021.
During the conversation with Indian Express editors, the minister underlined the push for electrical cars in the country and said a lot of Indian companies were also working on electrical vehicles that might be more affordable, but technically as advanced as the Tesla. He said Tesla will start operations first with sales and then maybe look at assembly and manufacturing based on the response to the
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NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday confirmed that US-based EV maker Tesla will begin operations in India in early 2021.
Speaking at the Indian Express Idea Exchange programme, the minister confirmed that Tesla will start operations firstly with sales and then look at the possibilities of assembly and manufacturing later on depending upon the response in the country.
Tesla became the talk of the town when Elon Musk, CEO of the company, tweeted back in October that the electric car maker is ready to expand its global footprint to India.
Scholarship scam: Jharkhand CM grants approval for probe into fraud
The pre-Matric scholarship scheme, launched in 2008, is meant to help students of minority communities from families with annual income below Rs 1 lakh. In 2019-20, the Ministry of Minority Affairs disbursed Rs 61 crore under this scheme to Jharkhand. Updated: December 15, 2020 9:35:25 am
Hemant Soren
Clearing the way for a statewide probe based on the findings of an investigation by The Indian Express, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has “given his approval” for the state’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to initiate a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) into the Pre-Matric scholarship scam in which poor minority students were duped by a nexus of middlemen, school authorities, state officials, and bank staff.