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Kerala joins the league of the states completing ease of doing business reform

Kerala has achieved the distinction of becoming eighth state in the country to undertake “Ease of Doing Business” reform successfully. Thus, the State has become eligible to mobilise additional financial resources of Rs.2,373 crore through Open Market Borrowings. These eight States will now be granted additional borrowing permission of Rs.23,149 crore. The other seven states…

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Aerial ground survey for Delhi-Varansi High Speed Rail Corridor begins

The work for High Speed Rail Network between Delhi-Varanasi has been started with the beginning of aerial ground survey through a helicopter fitted with imagery sensors and Aerial Light Detection and Ranging Survey (LiDAR). Through the first flight of this helicopter, the imagery sensors captured the related data to the ground survey. It is through…

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Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2021 organised on the theme Contributing to Aatmanirbhar Bharat

The Ministry of External Affairs is organising Pravasi Bhartiya Divas 2021 Convention based on the theme Contributing to Aatmanirbhar Bharat virtually and the mega event, being organised on January 9, encompasses three sessions. H.E. Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of the Republic of Suriname will be the Chief Guest of the event to be inaugurated by Prime…

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No plans to hike passenger fares as of now, clarifies Indian Railway touting media reports as false

Indian Railways has denied claims being made by a section of media that it’s all set to increase passenger fares. It has rebuffed all such reports which state that there is a possibility of Indian Railways may hike passenger fares. According to Indian Railways all such reports are baseless and that all such reports are…

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Indian Railways launches One Stop, Single Window solution for Freight customers

Promoting ease of doing business, Ministry of Railways has launched a dedicated freight portal with aim to simplify the entire process involved in goods transportation and ensure all its operations concerning freight business remain  customer centric and reduce the costs for  logistics providers, besides providing online tracking facility for the suppliers. Touted as a game…

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TRIFED aims to promote indigenous products by tribal groups through GI tagging

While “Vocal for Local” and “Aatmanirbhar Bharat” movements have gained the much desired focus due to the challenges thrown by COVID-19 pandemic, the national nodal agency TRIFED, in the meanwhile, has been working comprehensively to support market and promote indigenous products manufactured by tribal groups since centuries. These include handlooms, handicrafts and various other products…

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