Foreign Relations

The first round of India-GCC Senior Officers Meeting

The first round of India-GCC SOM was held on 20 March 2023 in Riyadh. The Indian delegation was led by Dr Ausaf Sayeed, Secretary(CPV&OIA) while the GCC delegation was led by Dr Abdul Aziz Bin Hamad Al-Owaishaq, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Negotiations, GCC. […]

Foreign Relations

Civil20 India Inception Meet starts at Nagpur

The future belongs not to single entities but to those who cooperate and mingle and everyone must obey the universal law of inclusion, stated the Chair of Civil20 India Mata Amritanandamayi Devi at the inaugural session of Civil20 India 2023 in Nagpur today (March 20, 2023). […]

Foreign Relations

CIVIL-20 India 2023 Working Committee Meeting

The Working Committee Meeting of CIVIL20 India 2023 started at Nagpur today (March 20, 2023). The meeting was attended by the Steering Committee (SC) Members, the International Advisory Committee (IAC) members and the Working Group Coordinators of CIVIL-20 India 2023. […]

Foreign Relations

India lodges strong protest with UK

The senior-most UK diplomat in New Delhi was summoned late evening today to convey India’s strong protest at the actions taken by separatist and extremist elements against the Indian High Commission in London earlier in the day. […]

Defence

4th DCD between India & Maldives

India and the Maldives conducted the 4th Defence Cooperation Dialogue (DCD) in Male on March 19, 2023. The dialogue was co-chaired by Defence Secretary Shri Giridhar Aramane and his Maldivian counterpart, Chief of Defence Force […]

Foreign Relations

Shri G. Kishan Reddy chairs meeting of Heads of SCO

Shri G. Kishan Reddy, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of North Eastern Region, Government of India chaired the Meeting of Heads of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Tourism Administrations held in ‘Kashi’ (Varanasi) on 17th March 2023. […]

World

Ministry of Steel signs 57 MoU with 27 companies

The Ministry of Steel has signed 57 MoUs’ with 27 companies for speciality steel under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme. An event to exchange of MoUs with companies was organised by the Ministry of Steel today at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. […]

Finance

Customs Exchange Rate Notification No. 15/2023

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs hereby determines the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currencies into Indian currency or vice versa, with effect from 17th March 2023, for the purpose of importing and exporting goods. […]

World

Tariff Customs Notification No. 14/2023

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs, being satisfied that it is necessary and expedient to do so, hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance […]

General

RBI granted an IFC status IREDA

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) granted an ‘Infrastructure Finance Company (IFC)’ status to Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) today. It was earlier classified as an ‘Investment and Credit Company (ICC)’. […]

Foreign Relations

SERB signed an MoC with STINT

A Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) was signed between Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), and The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) […]

Foreign Relations

18th India-Australia Joint Ministerial Commission

India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal, and Australia’s Minister for Trade and Tourism, Senator the Hon Don Farrell, met yesterday to discuss the next steps for further enhancing the bilateral economic relationship. […]

World

New LEAN Scheme under MSME Champions Scheme

Union Minister for MSME Shri Narayan Rane launched the MSME Competitive (LEAN) Scheme today. Speaking on the occasion Shri Rane said that LEAN has the potential to become a national movement and that it aims to provide a roadmap to global competitiveness for the MSMEs […]