General

PM pays tributes to Mahatma Gandhi

PM pays tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and all those greats who marched to Dandi; The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and all the eminent persons who marched to Dandi in order to protest injustice and protect our nation’s self-esteem. […]

Business

Tribes India brings out Holi collection

Tribes India once again brings out a wide range of attractive, vibrant tribal products for its Holi collection; A variety of colourful sarees, kurtas, dresses, stoles, dress material of various weaves and styles belonging to a rich heritage such as Maheshwari, Chanderi, Bagh, Kantha, Bhandara, Tussar, Sambhalpuri, Pochampally and Ikat have been carefully created for the Holi collection. […]

General

IREDA inks MoU with CIPET for Solarization of CIPET campuses

Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology (CIPET), to provide its techno-financial expertise for solarization of CIPET campuses. The two organisations are under the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy and the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, respectively. […]

Business

MoD Pushes for Industry Design & Development

In a significant boost to Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision on ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’, and in sync with the announcement in the Union Budget 2022-23 that allocated 25% of Defence R & D Budget for industry led R & D, 18 major platforms have been identified by the Ministry of Defence for industry led Design & Development under various routes. […]

World

India – Canada to re-launch CEPA

India and Canada held the fifth Ministerial Dialogue on Trade & Investment (MDTI) here today. Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food, and Public Distribution and Textiles, Shri Piyush Goyal and Ms. Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade, Government of Canada co-chaired the MDTI. […]

General

AKAM Iconic Week Celebrations of Ministry of Coal

AKAM Iconic Week Celebrations of Ministry of Coal; Concludes Today with variety Functions; Talk by Dr. Vaibhav Chaturvedi on the topic “The Future of India’s Energy Systems under a Net-zero future”, declamation contest for the employees of the Ministry and PSUs on the theme “Coal & Climate Change – Indian Perspective” are some of the highlights of the concluding day’s function. […]

General

Dehradun student writes to Modi

Prime Minister writes to Dehradun student Anurag Ramola, impressed by the student’s understanding of the issues of national interest at a young age; Contribution of our younger generation is going to be crucial in building a strong and prosperous India in the years to come. […]

Education

Scientific research in traditional knowledge systems

VP to Universities; Courses should be dynamic and flexible, tuned to changing market demands; Vice President calls upon universities to develop local linkages, to come up with solutions for region-specific problems; Vice President visits Sikkim, lays the foundation stone virtually for Khangchendzonga State University. […]

Corona Virus

COVID-19 Vaccine Availability

Update on COVID-19 Vaccine Availability in States/UTs; More than 181.77 Crore vaccine doses provided to States/UTs; More than 16.70 Crore balance and unutilized vaccine doses still available with States/UTs. […]

Corona Virus

COVID-19 UPDATE

179.72 cr vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive; India’s Active caseload currently stands at 42,219; Active cases stand at 0.10% […]

Foreign Relations

India Pavilion set to Showcase Opportunities in Steel Sector at EXPO2020 Dubai

The India Pavilion at EXPO 2020, Dubai is all set to host ‘Steel Week’ from 11th March 2022. The Union Steel Minister Shri Ram Chandra Prasad Singh will inaugurate tomorrow. The weeklong event, culminating on 17th March 2022, will highlight the expertise of the Steel sector in India and showcase an array of opportunities as well as business potential in India’s steel sector. […]

General

Culture MoS inaugurates Sahityotsav in Delhi

Sahityotsav, the Festival of Letters of Sahitya Akademi, India’s most inclusive literature festival commenced today in New Delhi. Festival of Letters 2022 is being celebrated to commemorate 75th anniversary of India’s Independence. The Festival started today, with the inauguration of Akademi Exhibition by Sri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Culture. The Exhibition showcases Akademi‘s achievements and seminal events held in the previous year. […]

Foreign Relations

Webinar on Gig Employment in the BRICS held

Ministry of Labour and Employment organized an International Webinar on “New Forms of Employment with reference to Gig and Platform Working in the BRICS and Global South” in collaboration with the V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, International Labour Organization (ILO), BRICS Network of Labour Research Institutes and the International Training Centre (ITC) of the ILO on yesterday. […]

Foreign Relations

5th NSA Level Meeting of the Colombo Security Conclave

Delegations of the founding members of Colombo Security Conclave; Maldives, India and Sri Lanka, and the newest member of the Conclave, Mauritius, successfully concluded the 5th National Security Adviser level meeting held on 09 – 10 March 2022 in Maldives. Delegations from Bangladesh and Seychelles participated as Observers. […]

Foreign Relations

UNASSM team visits india on counter-terrorism

A team of experts from the UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team concerning ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and the Taliban supporting the Security Council’s 1267 & 1988 Sanction Committees visited India from 08-10 March 2022. The visit was undertaken at the invitation of Government of India and was in continuation of regular consultations between the UN Monitoring Team with key Member-States relevant to their mandate. […]

Finance

Government approves Rs. 4,400 crore investment in ECGC

Government approves Rs. 4,400 crore investment in ECGC Ltd. in 5 years to provide support to exporters as well as banks; Capital Infusion and planned IPO to increase ECGC’s underwriting capacity up to ₹88,000 crore and propel additional exports of Rs. 5.28 lakh crore over a five-year period […]

Business

MSME DI conducts Safety Workshop for MSMEs

MSME Development Institute Bengaluru in association with Indo German FocalPoint, New Delhi, Deutsche Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung, Germany, and KASSIA, Bengaluru held an one-day regional workshop on Occupational Safety, Health, and Social Security for Small businesses and MSMEs. […]

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. […]