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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP) Phase II & Phase III with the financial assistance of the World Bank (WB), and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to improve the safety and operational performance of selected dams across the whole country, along with institutional strengthening with system […]

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has extended the norms for mandatory packaging of 100% food grains and 20% sugar in diversified jute bags, to give an impetus to the diversification of the jute industry. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The decision also mandates that initially 10% of the indents of jute bags

In the first funding for NTPC Ltd under Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC)’s GREEN or Global Action for Reconciling Economic growth and Environment preservation initiative, India’s largest power producer entered into foreign currency loan agreement with Japanese financial institution for JPY 50 billion (approx $ 482 million/Rs 3,582 crore). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), with an objective to develop the financial products and financial services in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City International Financial Services Centre (GIFT IFSC) has prescribed the regulatory framework for listing of Depository Receipts (DRs). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The framework provides for listing of DRs by

Global energy majors are bullish on the growth of natural gas usage in India and have called on the government to bring natural gas under the GST regime at the India energy Forum. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  Currently petrol, diesel, aviation turbine fuel, natural gas and crude oil fall outside India’s Goods and

A tribunal in Singapore restrained Future Group and Reliance Industries Limited from proceeding with a Rs 24,713-crore deal signed in August for Future Retail to sell its retail, wholesale, logistics and warehousing units to Reliance Retail and Fashionstyle. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points  The emergency order by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) came

US President Donald Trump referred to it as “filthy India” during the final presidential debate and India received a lot of unwanted attention. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points While he was talking with reference to the Paris Climate Accord, the attempt here is to look at the filth in terms of poor or inadequate

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has interacted with CEOs of leading global oil and gas companies in the annual event organized by NITI Aayog and Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas today via video conferencing. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This is the fifth such event organized by NITI Aayog and Ministry of Petroleum &