BRICS Women’s Business Alliance (WBA) Annual Report 2021 has highlighted Food security, Healthcare, Inclusive economy, Environmental Safety, Creative Industries, Tourism, Innovative Development and Public Policy as key areas to boost the participation of women in the economy in BRICS countries. BRICS WBA have 25 Women Leaders which include 5 each nominated from the BRICS countries. […]
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Textile ministry has set an ambitious target of increasing the exports of textiles to 100 billion dollar which will be over three times the current export value of 33 billion dollar at the earliest. Union Minister for Commerce & Industry, Textiles, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs Piyush Goyal said, the textile industry should collectively achieve […]
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The National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC), India’s largest power conglomerate, has commissioned 25MW floating solar PV project on the reservoir of its Simhadri thermal station situated at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The largest floating solar PV project it’s set up under the Flexibilisation Scheme notified by the Government of India in the year 2018. […]
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With aim to boost the country’s exports and competitiveness in the global markets, the Centre has notified a scheme for zero rating of exports. The scheme known as Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products- RoDTEP Scheme Guidelines and Rates will cover 8555 tariff lines. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry said that it’s […]
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By Rajesh K Rajan Journalists take up the cudgels on behalf of the victims of injustice, bureaucratic red-tape and systemic lacunae, yet ironically, sometimes they too fall victims to the same sad state of affairs. The case in point is veteran TV journalist Sudhanshu Ranjan who had to wage a protracted legal battle in the […]
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In last seven years India has successfully recorded 572 per cent growth in grant of Patents. As informed by Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry, informed, “In 2020-21 over 28,391 patents granted in comparison to 4,227 patents granted in 2013-14.” He said that technology and ideas are twin engines of growth. Goyal was speaking at a virtual […]
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Ministry of Food Processing Industries has informed that currently 19 mega food parks in the country are under various completion stages. Pashupati Kumar Paras, Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, said this scheme has the primary objective of providing modern infrastructure facilities for food processing together with the farm to market value chain. Out of […]
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India’s largest integrated power generating company, NTPC Limited has come out with a global expression of interest (EOI) for a pilot project on hydrogen blending with natural gas in city gas distribution. Recently, the NTPC has also issued a tender for green hydrogen fuelling station in LEH, besides a tender by NTPC Vidut Vyapar Nigam […]
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Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav has informed that Sultanpur and Bhindawas in Haryana and Thol and Wadhwana in Gujarat are four more wetlands included in Ramsar sites. With this, India now have 46 Ramsar sites with the covered surface area of 1,083,322 hectares. Haryana has got its first Ramsar sites while Gujarat has got three […]
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A virtual media roundtable was organised featuring expert discussions and presentations on current situation in Indian real estate sector amid the health crisis.
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