Foreign Relations

16th India-Singapore Foreign Office Consultations

The 16th Foreign Office Consultations between India and Singapore were held in Singapore and were co-chaired by Shri Saurabh Kumar, Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, India and Mr. Albert Chua, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore […]

Foreign Relations

EAM to visit LATAM for bilateral relations

External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr. S. Jaishankar will pay an official visit to Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina from 22-27 August 2022. This will be EAM’s first visit to the South American region. During the visit, in addition to bilateral engagements with his counterparts, EAM will call on the top leadership in all the three countries. […]

Business

Cabinet approves enhancement in the corpus of ECLGS

Cabinet approves enhancement in the corpus of Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme for increasing the limit of admissible guarantees; Hospitality and related sectors to get a boost; Loans worth about Rs. 3.67 Lakh crore have been sanctioned under ECLGS […]

Agriculture & Commodities

Cabinet approves Interest subvention of 1.5% per annum on Short Term Agriculture Loan upto Rupees Three lakh

Cabinet approves Interest subvention of 1.5% per annum on Short Term Agriculture Loan upto Rupees Three lakh; Additional budgetary provisions of Rs 34,856 crore for the period of 2022-23 to 2024-25 under the scheme; Decision will ensure adequate credit flow in agriculture sector to the farmer […]

Finance

New Exchange Rates published

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs has determined the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currencies into Indian currency or vice versa, for the purpose of the said section, relating to imported and export goods. […]

Foreign Relations

EAM visits Tashkent for SCO meeting

External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar visited Tashkent on 28-29 July 2022 at the invitation of Uzbekistan Acting Foreign Minister H. E. Mr. Vladimir Norov to take part in the meeting of SCO Council of Foreign Ministers. […]

Foreign Relations

2nd North-East Buyer-Seller Meet held

Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Minister of State for External Affairs and Education will be visiting Guwahati to attend the Inaugural Session of 2nd North-East Buyer – Seller Meet (NE BSM) 2022 on 28 July 2022 […]

Foreign Relations

India condemns Kurdish Massacre

India strongly condemns the recent killings in the Zakho district of Dohuk Governatorate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which is a clear violation of the country’s sovereignty and a blatant disregard for international humanitarian law. […]