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Agriculture & Commodities

Piyush Goyal Meets Export Community, sets target of $2 Trillion Exports By 2030

August 19, 2021 News Desk Comments Off on Piyush Goyal Meets Export Community, sets target of $2 Trillion Exports By 2030

Union Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Meets Export Community, Discusses Measures To Boost Exports; Minister Exhorts Exporters To Rise To The Ambitious Challenge Of $400 Billion Export Target For 2021-22.And Target $2 Trillion Exports By 2030; Commerce Minister says “We Can Sort Out Ftas Fairly Quickly, If The Areas Where We Have The Ability To Compete Internationally Can Be Identified. We are Working Towards Early Harvest Agreements With Uk And Australia” […]

Agriculture & Commodities

Surplus sugar finds export and ethanol markets

August 19, 2021 News Desk Comments Off on Surplus sugar finds export and ethanol markets

Sugar cane farmers get a big relief as Centre facilitates export of surplus sugar & diversion of sugar to ethanol to ensure timely payment of cane dues; Against the export target of 60 LMT, contracts of about 70 LMT have been signed, More than 60 LMT has been lifted from sugar mills as on 16.8.2021; Record value of sugarcane worth nearly Rs. 91000 crores purchased by sugar mills in 20-21. […]

Technology

Defence India Startup Challenge 5.0 launched

August 19, 2021 News Desk Comments Off on Defence India Startup Challenge 5.0 launched

DISC 5.0 is a reflection of Government’s resolve to create a self-reliant defence sector
The challenge to take innovation, design & development to newer heights
iDEX playing a crucial role in building a strong military & ‘AatmaNirbhar’ defence industry
Government support to private sector in building ‘AatmaNirbhar Bharat’ […]

General

DRDO develops Advanced Chaff Technology for IAF

August 19, 2021 News Desk Comments Off on DRDO develops Advanced Chaff Technology for IAF

DRDO creates technology to safeguard fighter aircraft from hostile radar threats; Given to the industry for production in large quantities; Indian Air Force begins process of induction following completion of successful user trials; Raksha Mantri terms it another step of DRDO towards ‘AatmaNirbhar Bharat’ […]

Foreign Relations

New Exchange Rates w.e.f. 20th Aug 2021

August 19, 2021 News Desk Comments Off on New Exchange Rates w.e.f. 20th Aug 2021

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currencies into Indian currency with effect from 20th August, 2021 for the purpose of the said section, relating to imported and export goods. […]

Agriculture & Commodities

Cabinet approves implementation of National Mission on Edible Oils – Oil Palm

August 18, 2021 News Desk Comments Off on Cabinet approves implementation of National Mission on Edible Oils – Oil Palm

A new Centrally Sponsored Scheme with a special focus on the North east region and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands; A financial outlay of Rs.11,040 crore out of which Rs.8,844 crore is the share of Government of India; Focus on increasing area and productivity of oilseeds and Oil Palm […]

General

TRIFED adds 75 new tribal products to Tribes India catalogue

August 17, 2021 News Desk Comments Off on TRIFED adds 75 new tribal products to Tribes India catalogue

On the occasion of India’s 75 years of Independence, 75 new tribal products launched by TRIFED and added to the already extensive, attractive Tribes India catalogue.
TRIFED GI Movement, has also identified 75 products of Tribal origin or source which will be registered for Geographical Indication (GI) Tag under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999, India.
The Tribal products for GI Tagging have been identified from twenty Indian states.
Out of 75 identified GI Tribal products, 37 such products belong to eight states of North East.
From Tribal heartland states, 7 products from Jharkhand and 6 products from Madhya Pradesh have also been identified for GI Tagging. […]

Foreign Relations

9th OSM Meeting held between India and Nepal

August 16, 2021 News Desk Comments Off on 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

August 16, 2021 News Desk Comments Off on 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

August 10, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on 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

August 6, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on 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

August 6, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on 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

August 6, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on 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

August 6, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on 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

August 4, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on 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

August 4, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on 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

August 2, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on 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

August 2, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on 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

August 2, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on 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. […]

Business

Global level market for MSMEs

July 29, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on Global level market for MSMEs

Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) through its MSME-Development Institutes (DI) situated in all States, facilitates MSMEs to export from Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) and Special Economic Zone (SEZ). […]

Education

Landmark decision taken by Government of India in Medical Education

July 29, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on Landmark decision taken by Government of India in Medical Education

the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has taken a historic and landmark decision for providing 27% reservation for OBCs and 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in the All India Quota (AIQ) Scheme for undergraduate and postgraduate medical/dental courses (MBBS / MD / MS / Diploma / BDS / MDS) from the current academic year 2021-22 onwards […]

Agriculture & Commodities

Agriculture plays an important role in socio-economic transformation: Narendra Singh Tomar

July 28, 2021 India Ties Comments Off on Agriculture plays an important role in socio-economic transformation: Narendra Singh Tomar

Shri Narendra Singh Tomar virtually delivered the Ministerial Statement in the Pre-Summit of United Nations Food System Summit 2021 today. In the statement, the Minister emphasized the importance of Agriculture in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals […]