India, UK agree to resume free trade talks

IANS | February 24, 2025 5:39 PM

New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, on Monday said that India and the UK have decided to restart negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), after a meeting here with his UK counterpart Jonathan Reynolds.

India’s wind power capacity poised to surge to 63 GW by 2026-27

IANS | February 24, 2025 3:27 PM

New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) India’s annual capacity addition of wind power is projected to more than double to 7.1 gigawatt (GW) on average in the next two financial years, compared with 3.4 GW in fiscal year 2023-25 -- driven by government measures to ramp up the pace, a report said on Monday, adding that this will take the country’s total installed wind capacity to around 63 GW by 2026-27.