Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal raised concerns about India’s trade deficit with Indonesia which stood at USD 10.57 billion in India’s trade deficit with Indonesia during 2018-19. He says that the balance of trade is heavily in favor of Indonesia and both countries need to work towards establishing sustainable trade by diversifying the export basket. […]
General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs of Sharjah’s first Golden Card visa was issued to an Indian expat businessman, as part of the permanent residency system tailored for investors. The visa was issued to Lalu Samuel, Chairman and Managing Director of Kingston Holdings and Chairman of Sharjah Industry Business Group, which functions under the
The Delhi Police Crime Branch has rescued 333 children from the Capital in just 7 months. These children were missing since January 2019 from various parts of the country and found in the Capital, the police said. Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Rajiv Ranjan said that they have also tracked down 57 people, including
American aerospace major Boeing announced the arrival of two new heavy-lift Chinook helicopters for the Indian Air Force at the Mundra port in Gujarat. The Indian Air Force has ordered 15 Chinooks and the first four helicopters arrived in February. The IAF had placed the order in 2015 along with 22 Apache attack helicopters. “Two
Mirabai Chanu who was a former world champion led the Indian medal rush by notching up a gold on the opening day of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship. The Indian contingent won 13 medals that included eight gold, three silver and two bronze medals in senior, junior and youth categories. Mirabai lifted a total of 191kg
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India is committed to completing work on the Kartarpur Corridor, dismissing reports that New Delhi was lagging behind while Pakistan has completed 70 per cent of the work.Sources said nearly 45 per cent of the work on a four-lane highway connecting Zero point of the Kartarpur corridor up to the National Highway 354 has already
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Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) launched a project for undertaking ‘immunocontraceptive measures’ for population management of 4 species of wild animals namely Elephant, Wild boar, Monkeys and Blue Bull (Nilgai).Key Points: i. Need: Human-elephant conflict caused the maximum number of casualties. Between 2014 and March 2019, 2,398 people died in elephant
The 46th Edition of Copa America held between 14 June to 7 July 2019 at 6 venues in the host country. Brazil beat Peru 3-1 to win its first South American title since 2007. It was Neymar’s replacement, Everton, who led the team to victory, scoring a goal and setting up another to give Brazil
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Nageshwar Rao has been shunted out from the Central Bureau of Investigation and has been appointed as Director General (DG) Fire Services, Civil Defence & Home Guard, a post earlier offered to former CBI Director Alok Verma. Interestingly, IPS officer M Nageshwar Rao had replaced his boss Alok Verma on October 23 after a dramatic
