Foreign Relations

9th OSM Meeting held between India and Nepal

India and Nepal held the 9th meeting of the Oversight Mechanism (OSM) in Kathmandu. The meeting was co-chaired by H. E. Mr. Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Ambassador of India to Nepal and H.E. Mr. Bharat Raj Paudyal, Foreign Secretary, Government of Nepal. […]

Business

Government is committed to Support Startups: Piyush Goyal

Indian startup ecosystem has the potential & promise to make India the Innovation & Invention hub of the world: Shri Piyush Goyal; says that government is committed to cut red tape, improve “Ease of Doing Business” , provide financial assistance through Startup seed fund, supporting incubators, enhancing skills […]

Foreign Relations

Russian President’s speech at the UN Security Council high-level debate Maintenance of international peace & security

The Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the UN Security Council high-level debate Maintenance of international peace and security: Maritime security held on August 9 via videoconference. The event took place at the initiative of Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi. India holds the presidency of the UN Security Council in August 2021. […]

Finance

Know all about e-RUPI, the new digital payment instrument

Shri Narendra Modi on August 2nd launched the digital payment solution e-RUPI, a cashless and contactless instrument for digital payment. Prime Minister said that the eRUPI voucher is going to play a huge role in making Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) more effective in digital transactions in the country […]

Business

Action Plan to Promote Dairy Industry

Department has launched Animal Husbandry and Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) in 2020 with an outlay of Rs. 15,000 Cr and Dairy Processing Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF) in 2017 with an outlay of Rs. 11,184 Cr as a part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat package stimulus. […]

Education

Shri Subhas Sarkar addresses the G20 Research Ministers’ Meeting virtually

Shri Subhas Sarkar participated in the G20 Research Ministers’ meeting today. The meeting was hosted in blended mode by Italy. G20 Education Ministers exchanged views on enhancing research collaborations and sharing digital space among G20 Countries for a strong, sustainable, resilient and inclusive recovery. […]

Foreign Relations

Australian delegation calls on Union Minister Shri Pralhad Joshi

Shri Pralhad Joshi, held discussions with a high-level delegation led by former Prime Minister and Special Trade Envoy of Australia Mr. Tony Abbott here yesterday. The delegation had called on the Minister to discuss expanding trade and economic relationship between India and Australia […]

Agriculture & Commodities

APEDA inks MoU with UAS, Bangalore for boosting agri-exports

To give boost agricultural and processed food products exports especially from Karnataka, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Agricultural Science (UAS) Bangalore. […]

Business

Government encouraging the transfer of technologies developed in the field of space to Indian industries

Jitendra Singh said that space programme offers a variety of services beneficial to any country in various domains of its development work. India has its own priority in selected domains of the space programmes and is doing relatively good in its space programmes. […]

Business

PM launches digital payment solution e-RUPI

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched the digital payment solution e-RUPI, a person and purpose-specific digital payment solution, today via video conference. e-RUPI is a cashless and contactless instrument for digital payment. […]

Business

Auctioning of Coal Mines

The auction of coal mines is a continuous process. The success of the auction process depends on the response received from bidders. Following policy measures have been undertaken for providing more flexibility to the prospective bidders […]

Business

Arbitration under MSME Act

Sub-section 3 of Section 18 of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006 provides that where the conciliation fails under the provisions of the Act, the Micro & Small Enterprises Facilitation Council (MSEFC) shall either itself take up the dispute for arbitration or refer it to any institution or center providing alternate dispute resolution services for such arbitration. […]