New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met top leaders and industrialists during her visit to Germany and discussed bilateral trade relations in the backdrop of the EU-India FTA deal, while scaling up the partnership in several fields, including manufacturing, technology and agriculture, Finance Ministry said on Sunday.
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) M Nagaraju, Secretary, Department of Financial Services (DFS), has stressed upon the need to enhance the Credit-GDP ratio — making our financial institutions more agile and exploring new ways of financing at a larger scale in line with the goals of Viksit Bharat.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Union Minister for Railways, Information and Broadcasting and Electronics & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Saturday announced two new reforms approved by Indian Railways as part of its plan to carry out “52 reforms in 52 weeks” during 2026.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) India’s innovation ecosystem has matured to a stage where opportunity is fully democratised and accessible ‘on a mobile phone,’ Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said on Saturday, urging young people to move beyond the traditional aspiration of government jobs and embrace entrepreneurship.
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) Rising geopolitical friction involving the United States, China and Russia is pushing Europe and Canada to accelerate economic and strategic engagement with India, positioning the country as "a viable third pole", a new report has said.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Pakistan’s fragile economy has received temporary relief after the United Arab Emirates rolled over $2 billion of maturing loans for one month at an interest rate of 6.5 per cent, a report has said.
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) Generative AI is not causing widespread job displacement in India’s IT sector but is reorganising work, raising productivity and shifting demand toward hybrid skill sets, a report said on Saturday.
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) The European Union should move quickly to provisionally apply the EU–Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement and expedite provisional application of the EU–India free trade agreement to respond to urgent geopolitical pressures including from United States, a new report has said.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) The Union Cabinet has approved projects worth Rs 1,60,504 crore at its final meeting in the South Block before passing a resolution to shift its functioning to the Seva Teerth complex, Union Railways and Electronics and IT Minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, said on Saturday.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) IPO-bound Skyways Air Services Ltd, a Delhi-based air freight forwarding and logistics company, is facing an FIR -- filed with the Delhi Wing of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) by UK-based PG Paper Company Limited – over an alleged "large-scale fraud" to the tune of Rs 480 crore involving nine firms/persons (including Skyways Air Services Ltd).
