The 7th Session of Codex Committee on Spices and Culinary Herbs (CCSCH) was recently held in Kochi. During this session, the committee finalised and recommended quality standards for...
The Centre has allocated Rs 10,536 crore for Odisha’s railway infrastructure development for the 2024-25 fiscal, which is Rs 524 crore more than the amount sanctioned in last...
National Payments Corporation of India’s (NPCI) Unified Payment Interface (UPI) was formally launched at the Eiffel Tower in Paris on February 2, 2024. This marks an important step...
Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Digital Payments Index, a measure of the extent of digitisation of payments across the country, increased to 418.77 in September 2023 from 395.57...
Public sector company Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) has bagged a prestigious international order from a European client for the construction of a hybrid service operation vessel (SOV) for...
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has barred Paytm Payments Bank from onboarding new customers and offering services like digital wallets and UPI transactions from March 1, 2024. This...
Ahead of the Interim Budget, the Finance Ministry laid out four key challenges facing India’s economy in the “The Indian Economy: A Review” Report. This comes as India...
India has identified 6 key sectors – electronics, engineering goods, textiles, marine & agriculture, toys and pharmaceuticals – that could help the country achieve almost 70% of its...
The state of Kerala filed a lawsuit under Article 131 of the Indian Constitution in the Supreme Court challenging the Centre’s recent actions limiting states’ borrowing capacities. Kerala...
India’s equity market capitalization has surpassed Hong Kong’s for the first time, making it the fourth largest globally. Favorable domestic growth dynamics combined with global capital inflows have...
