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Boeing delivered the 12th P-8I maritime patrol aircraft to India on Wednesday, February 23, making it the fourth of four additional aircraft delivered under the options contract signed by the Ministry of Defence in 2016. The Ministry of Defence had signed a contract for eight P-8I aircraft in 2009. However, later in 2016, it signed a […]
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Three more Rafale fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) reached India on February 22, 2022, Tuesday evening from France. The aircraft took off from a French airbase and were provided mid-air refuelling by the Air Force of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). With the arrival of the latest three aircraft, India has now
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced a US Dollar/Rupee two-year sell buy swap auction with a view to elongating the maturity profile of its forward book and smoothen the receivables relating to forward assets. The Central bank will undertake a sell/buy swap auction of $5 billion, which will enable access to a wider set of
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The Central Government launched the “Janbhagidari Empowerment” portal in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, in line with the government’s digital mission. The portal was hosted on a different server with higher bandwidth, in order to provide easy and ready accessibility to the general public. It is a one-stop interactive and user-friendly digital platform. It provides detailed insights
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Indian author Anirudh Suri has come out with his new book titled “The Great Tech Game: Shaping Geopolitics and the Destinies of Nations.’ It has been published by HarperCollins India. In this book, the author lays out a roadmap for how any country must develop its own strategic plan to succeed in this technology-dominant era. Anirudh Suri is
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The Finance ministry’s principal economic advisor Sanjeev Sanyal has been inducted as a full-time member in the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), according to an official order by the cabinet secretariat. He has been appointed for a tenure of two years. Sanyal is currently serving as the principal economic adviser in the Ministry of Finance.
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The World Economic Forum and the National Institute of Urban Affairs have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on a jointly designed Sustainable Cities India program. The program is aimed to create an enabling environment for cities to generate de-carbonization solutions. The program also intends to enable cities to decarbonize in a systematic and
Rating agency Moody’s has revised the economic growth estimates of India for Calendar Year (CY) 2022 and CY2023, in its Global Macro Outlook 2022-23, as follows: CY2022- 9.5 percent (Earlier it was 7 percent) CY2023 – 5.5 percent
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The RBI has mandated that non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) – middle and upper layer — having 10 and more ‘Fixed point service delivery units’ as on October 1, 2022, will have to implement Core Financial Services Solution (CFSS), akin to the Core Banking Solution (CBS) adopted by banks, by September 30, 2025. Core Financial Services
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International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) said on Wednesday it is launching a cybersecurity hub in Bengaluru to address the concerns of its clients across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The security hub will be one of the only two centres globally. The other one is in the US. IBM said it is a “multi-million dollar
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