News on Indian Economy
Favourable weather conditions and expectations of remunerative prices are the encouraging factors for the farmers to grow more wheat in the ongoing rabi season and India may hit a fresh record for the seventh consecutive year, said a top agricultural scientist, who expects wheat production to cross 112 million tonnes in the current crop year 2021-22.
The 52-km-long rail line connecting Sevoke in West Bengal with Rangpo in Sikkim is now projected to be operational by December 2023, Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) General Manager Anshul Gupta said on Saturday.
In a major boost to export prospects of agricultural produce, India registered a significant surge in export of agricultural and processed food products in April-October period of current Financial Year, 2021-22, in comparison to the corresponding seven month period of last fiscal, 2020-21.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Thursday said its international arm NIPL and global digital commerce enabler Network International have signed an agreement for mobile-based real time payment system in the UAE. Network International enables digital commerce across the Middle East and Africa.
India, the world’s largest recipient of remittances, received $87 billion in 2021 with the United States being the biggest source, accounting for over 20 per cent of these funds, according to the World Bank.
The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Mr. Piyush Goyal has said that India’s leather industry should aspire to be No. 1 in the world. Addressing the National Export Excellence Awards presentation ceremony of the Council for Leather Exports (CLE), he said we are already the second largest leather industry in the world.
At an cumulative level, investments in Asian fintech companies rose 68% sequentially to US$ 5.47 billion in the third quarter, achieving a new quarterly high since the first quarter of 2019 (Q1-2019). The volume of transactions also rose 21% to 216 deals, the study revealed.
This is the largest components manufacturing facility in Asia and is dedicated to improving industrial efficiency in manufacturing components for various prestigious national and international projects.
International commercial passenger flights have begun landing in India from November 15 after the long prohibition due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation.
Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister said while laying the foundation stone of Purvanchal Expressway three years ago, he did not imagine that one day he would land on the same expressway. He said “this expressway will lead to a better future at a faster pace, this expressway is for UP’s development, this expressway is for the building a new Uttar Pradesh, this expressway is a reflection of modern facilities in UP, this expressway is a proof of accomplishment of resolutions in UP and this is the pride and wonder of UP.”
