Foreign Relations

India and Korea to have Trade talks

Focus on addressing the large trade deficit, market access issues and non-tariff barriers faced by Indian exporters.; The meeting is expected to further boost India-Korea trade relations in an equitable and balanced manner […]

Foreign Relations

Raksha Mantri flags-in multi-dimensional adventure sports expedition in france

Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh, on January 07, 2022, flagged-in India’s first multi-dimensional adventure sports expedition conducted by National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports (NIMAS) in France. The expedition was conducted in November 2021 and the team was led by Director NIMAS Colonel Sarfaraz Singh, comprising 12 people – eight Army personnel and four youths of Arunachal Pradesh. […]

General

Rock Museum opened in Hyderabad

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurates India’s first Open Rock Museum displaying around 35 different types of rocks from different parts of India with ages ranging from 3.3 Billion years to around 55 Million years of the Earth’s history
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Finance

New Exchange Rates released

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currencies with effect from 7th January, 2022 for the purpose of the said section, relating to imported and export goods. […]

Agriculture & Commodities

APEDA pushes for Honey Exports

APEDA working in collaboration with state governments, farmers and others to boost honey exports; APEDA supporting farmers to explores new markets for natural honey exports; currently 80% of exports go to United States […]

Agriculture & Commodities

6 ODOP launched by FPI Ministry

Six One District One Product brands launched under the PMFME scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries; Amrit Phal, Cori Gold, Kashmiri Mantra, Madhu Mantra, Somdana, & Whole Wheat Cookies of Dilli Bakes launched under the Scheme […]

Foreign Relations

India setup KABIL for Atmanirbhar Minerals

In order to ensure mineral security of the nation and to attain self-reliance in the area of critical & strategic minerals, the Ministry of Mines has created a Joint Venture company namely Khanij Bidesh India Ltd (KABIL) […]

Foreign Relations

India & Pakistan exchange Civilian Prisoners & Fishermen

India and Pakistan today exchanged, through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, the lists of civilian prisoners and fishermen in their custody. This is in keeping with the provisions of the 2008 Agreement under which such lists are exchanged every year on 1st January and 1st July. […]

Foreign Relations

India to supply 1M C19 Vaccines to Afghanistan

Today, India supplied the next batch of humanitarian assistance consisting of 500,000 doses of COVID vaccine (COVAXIN) to Afghanistan. The same was handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital, Kabul. Another batch of additional 500,000 doses would be supplied in coming weeks. […]

Business

Increase in GST rates for textiles deferred

After persuasion of HMoST, the GST Council’s 46th meeting was held today under the chairpersonship of the Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman. The GST Council has recommended deferring the earlier decision to change the rates in textiles recommended in the 45th GST Council meeting […]

General

MoD notifies positive indigenization of subsystems

A positive indigenisation list of 2500 sub-systems/assemblies/sub-assemblies/components has been notified by Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, as part of the efforts to achieve self-reliance in defence manufacturing and minimise imports by Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) […]

Business

Gadkari calls for Flex Fuel Vehicles manufacturing in India

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari has said in order to substitute India’s import of petroleum as a fuel and to provide direct benefits to farmers, the Automobile Manufacturers in India have now been advised to start manufacturing Flex Fuel Vehicles (FFV) and Flex Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles (FFV-SHEV) complying with BS-6 Norms in a time bound manner within a period of six months. […]

Technology

Indian Army Launches in-House Messaging Solution

The Indian Army, today launched a contemporary messaging application named, ASIGMA (Army Secure IndiGeneous Messaging Application) which is a new generation, state of the art, web based application developed entirely in-house by team of officers of the Corps of Signals of the Army. […]

Education

Govt issues caution against Ed-tech Companies

Given the pervasive impact of technology in education, many ed-tech companies have started offering courses, tutorials, coaching for competitive exams, etc. in an online mode. In this background, the parents, students and all stakeholders in school education have to be careful while deciding on opting for online content and coaching being offered by a host of Ed-tech companies […]

Foreign Relations

Foreign Secretary visits Myanmar

Foreign Secretary is on a working visit to Myanmar from December 22 to 23, 2021. During his visit, he called on the Chairman, State Administrative Council and other senior representatives and held meetings with members of civil society and political parties, including the National League for Democracy. He is also scheduled to meet Myanmar-based Ambassadors, and representatives of the UN. […]

General

DRDO launches S2S Missile Pralay

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted maiden flight test of indigenously developed surface-to-surface missile ‘Pralay’, from Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha […]

Foreign Relations

MoU approved between ICAI and Polish Statutory body

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, today has approved the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India(ICAI) and the Polish Chamber of Statutory Auditors (PIBR) to establish mutual co-operation in the areas of Member Management, Professional Ethics, Technical Research, CPD, Professional Accountancy Training, Audit Quality Monitoring, Advancement of Accounting Knowledge, Professional and Intellectual Development. […]

Foreign Relations

MoU betwen CCI and Mauritius CC approved

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Competition Commission of India (CCI) and Competition Commission of Mauritius (CCM) for promotion and strengthening of co-operation in competition law and policy. […]

Agriculture & Commodities

SOPs for use of Drone in Crop Protection released

Union Agriculture Minister releases Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for use of Drone in Pesticide Application for Crop Protection and for spraying Soil and Crop Nutrients; Drone Technology is useful for Agriculture and will benefit Farmers: Shri Narendra Singh Tomar […]

Technology

AIM, NITI Aayog & UNCDF announce first AgriTech cohort

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) rolled out their first AgriTech Challenge cohort for its ambitious innovative Agri-tech program that aims to help smallholder farmers across Asia and Africa to address their challenges in the aftermath of the pandemic. […]

General

NITI Aayog signs a SoI with UNWFP

NITI Aayog signs a Statement of Intent with United Nations World Food Program (WFP); The partnership focuses on mainstreaming of millets and supporting India in taking lead globally in knowledge exchange; The Sol focuses on strategic and technical collaboration between NITI Aayog and WFP […]

Foreign Relations

French Secretary General visits India

Mr François Delattre, Secretary-General, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France, is on an official visit to India fromDecember 20-22, 2021. The visit comes on the heels of the Annual Defence Dialogue held on 17 December 2021 in New Delhi between Shri Rajnath Singh, Raksha Mantri and Ms Florence Parly, French Minister for Armed Forces. […]