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) 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) Department of Telecommunications' (DoT) R&D institution, Centre for Development of Telematics (C‑DOT) has signed an agreement with Synergy Quantum India Private Limited to jointly develop an automated tool that will detect, classify and report "quantum‑vulnerable cryptographic algorithms in target devices," the government said on Saturday.
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) The tax holiday for foreign cloud service providers aims to “provide investment certainty, anchor high-value digital infrastructure within the country, and strengthen India’s role in global digital value chains,” the government said on Saturday.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Marking a paradigm shift in the urban development approach, the government on Saturday approved the launch of the Urban Challenge Fund (UCF) with a central assistance of Rs 1 lakh crore.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) In a significant development, the Centre has approved three multi-tracking projects, covering 12 districts across Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra and Karnataka, with a total cost of Rs 18,509 crore.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) In a major push to India’s fast-growing startup ecosystem, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the setting up of the Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0 with a total corpus of Rs 10,000 crore.
