New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The Kisan Sarathi platform has a network of 4,767 ICAR scientists and 113 ICAR institutes, with 2.95 crore registered farmers, including 56.16 lakh women beneficiaries, the government said on Monday.
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The government-backed e-commerce marketplace DigiHaat -- built on the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) -- on Monday launched a nationwide 'Sahkar Se Samriddhi' campaign to promote cooperative products and expand their reach among consumers through digital commerce.
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The Ministry of External Affairs has raised charges for passport-related services which will make getting a passport more expensive with effect from July 1, 2026.
Seoul, June 29 (IANS) South Korea plans to develop a new semiconductor production base in the country's southwestern region through 800 trillion won ($517.9 billion) in corporate investments that will create four memory chip fabrication plants, Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan said on Monday.
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Former HDFC Bank Chairman Atanu Chakraborty has described the legal review of his resignation as being caveated and superfluous, saying it focused largely on compliance issues instead of the broader concerns he had raised about certain business practices at the bank, according to a report.
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Shares of solar module maker Waaree Energies fell more than 5 per cent on Monday after the company issued a clarification on reports of a US Customs probe into its exports.
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) As the Middle East crisis unfolded, India responded better than several global economies because the ground had been prepared, and infrastructure built over the past decade is the reason a closure of the Strait became a managed event rather than a crisis at the pump and the kitchen, according to the government.
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) A national study that examined participation in Gram Sabhas across states and union territories found low citizen turnout and identified barriers and pathways to strengthen their grassroots engagement, an official statement said on Monday, adding that the report will be released on June 30.
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The Department of Consumer Affairs has introduced an 'Improvement Notice' mechanism under the Legal Metrology Act, 2009, allowing businesses to rectify specified first-time procedural or regulatory non-compliances before penal proceedings are initiated, according to an official statement on Monday.
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) As the West Asia crisis rattled global economies with surging oil and gas prices since the US-Iran war began on February 28, the defining choice of the crisis for India was to absorb the cost at the level of the State and the public sector marketing companies rather than the household, according to the government, as no comparable economy chose to shoulder a burden of this scale on behalf of its consumers.
