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With outbound shipments expected to exceed $400 billion in FY 22, the commerce ministry plans to begin the Brand India Campaign to boost service and product exports to new markets. This effort will function as an “umbrella campaign” for boosting India’s exports of goods and services.
Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla on Monday released a set of manuals focused on prevention of cybercrime and inculcating cyber-hygiene across rural areas, in industrial bodies and among the general public.
After implementation of mandatory fitment of two airbags for driver and passengers on the front seats across all models of cars, including in the cheapest ones, the transport ministry will now expedite the mandatory installation of four more airbags for the rear seat passengers.
Only 3.45 lakh (5.83 percent) of rural families in Jharkhand had access to tap water on August 15, 2019, when the Jal Jeevan Mission was launched. Despite the Covid-19 outbreak and lockdown disruptions, the State has connected 6.73 lakh (11.38 percent) homes to tap water in just 28 months. As of now, 10.18 lakh (17.20 percent) of the 59.23 lakh rural households in the state have access to running water.
line with the continued commitment and resolve to empower grassroot level farmers, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi released 10th instalment of financial benefit under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme on Saturday via video conferencing. This enabled the transfer of an amount of more than Rs. 20,000 crore to more than 10 crore beneficiary farmer families.
Earlier last month, India delivered 1.6 tonnes of medical assistance to Afghanistan through the World Health Organization (WHO). “In coming weeks, we would be undertaking the supply of wheat and the remaining medical assistance.
he Consumer Protection Act, 2019 promulgates a three-tier quasi-judicial mechanism for redressal of consumer disputes namely district commissions, state commissions and national commission. The Act also stipulates the pecuniary jurisdiction of each tier of consumer commission.
CESL is providing high quality 7-Watt and 12-Watt LED bulbs with 3 years guarantee at a cost of INR 10 per bulb in exchange of working incandescent bulbs. Every household can exchange a maximum of 5 bulbs. The distribution has resulted in energy savings of 71,99,68,373.28 units per year with cost savings of 250 crores per year in the rural areas of aforementioned states. The programme is active till March 31, 2022.
IndusInd Bank said in a statement to Reuters on Monday that it has collaborated with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to deliver real-time cross-border remittances to India using UPI IDs for its Money Transfer Operator (MTO) partners.
India is halfway through an ambitious plan to deliver safe drinking water to all 192 million homes in 600,000 villages by 2024. Hundreds of thousands of contractors and labourers are installing more than 2.5 million miles of the pipe as part of the US$ 50 billion projects, which about 18,000 government engineers are overseeing.
