TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Dec 28, 2020, 19:35 IST
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.