News on Indian Economy
With fast-changing technology landscape in India, Oppo is also shifting its focus towards next generation innovations like 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) to drive its next leg of growth in country
Niti Aayog member VK Saraswat, who has been helming the methanol economy project since its inception two years ago, confirmed to ET that 65,000 km of trial run on M15 blended fuel has been successfully completed and there is no tweaking required in vehicles to run on methanol blended fuel. The think tank had projected annual reduction of $100 billion in crude imports by 2030 if the country moves to 15% blended fuel both for transportation and cooking.
Mushroom cultivation production plays an important role in the government’s plan of doubling farmers’ income by 2022. It doesn’t need separate land as it is done indoors.
National Farmers Day 2019: Every year India celebrates National Farmers Day on December 23 to mark former Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Charan Singh’s birth anniversary. The government organizes many programs and debates, seminars on agriculture on this day.
Shipping Ministry is mulling a proposal of providing deep-sea vessels at a subsidized price to the fishermen community in coastal areas, so as to increase fish production and flourishing of sea-food industry, that will in-turn also increase employment in the sector.
The reactor pressure vessel and core melt localisation device (called core catcher or CLMD) have been shipped in a cargo vessel from St Petersburg and the shipment will travel 1,500km to reach India in January, according to a Rosatom release.
“The north parallel taxi track, capable of handling aircraft types up to Boeing 747, will increase the runway capacity from the present 15 movements per hour to 18-20 movements per hour,” said a statement issued by the Indian Navy.
Amid the debate around NRC in Assam and CAA protests, it becomes relevant to not lose sight of realities of economic migration to India from our South Asian neighbour
The first trial shipment of one container of fresh vegetables was flagged off today by Paban Kumar Borthakur, Chairman APEDA, and Deepak Agrawal, Commissioner, Varanasi Region, in the presence of Kaushal Raj Sharma, District Magistrate, Varanasi.
Hardeep S Puri, Minister of State (MoS) for Housing & Urban Affairs, stated regarding urban transport that 667 km of metro rail lines are presently operational in 18 cities, and about 934 km (including the 82 km Delhi-Meerut RRTS) are under construction in various cities
