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PM Modi chairs meeting to review preparedness for Cyclone Remal, IMD predicts midnight landfall at West Bengal & Bangladesh coast

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday chaired a meeting to review the response and preparedness for Cyclone ‘Remal.’ Cyclone Remal is to make landfall today, at midnight between Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal coasts, as per IMD. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast significant weather disturbances for the state of Tripura in conjunction with … Read more

Record voter turnout in Kashmir valley shows massive improvement in the situation after the abrogation of Article 370, PM Modi calls it a great trend

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The revocation of Article 370 in 2019 brought about a radical transformation for the union territory which has been making the headlines for all the right reasons lately. Now, as India is undergoing a massive electoral process in the form of the Lok Sabha election, Kashmir has once again grabbed the attention of the nation with its … Read more

EC releases the absolute number of voters for all completed phases, says it could always be calculated & reiterates that nobody can change data of votes

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Amid the demands of left-wing activists for the publication of Form 17C data, which records the voter turnout in each polling booth, the Election Commission of India on Saturday published the absolute number of voters for all the constituencies that went to vote in the first 5 phases of the General Elections. This comes a … Read more

Finance ministry issues guidelines for interest waiver scheme during the lockdown period- Read details

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The union finance ministry has issued the detailed guidelines for the waiver of ‘interest on interest’ for loans that was announced earlier this month. The govt had decided to waive the compound interest on loans upto Rs 2 crore for a period of six months, from March to August. It was announced that this compound interest waiver will be … Read more

Major reforms announced by Modi government, eases Work From Home norms and liberalises regulations for Other Service Provider sector

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In a significant move aimed at reforming the BPO and ITeS Sector, the government of India has announced liberalisation of the regulatory regime for the ‘Other Service Provider’ Industry in the sector. ‘Other Service Provider’ an entity providing Application Services like tele-banking, tele-medicine, tele-education, tele-trading, e-commerce, call centre, network operation centre (NOC) and other IT-enabled services to … Read more

Here are the 12 measures announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman under Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 stimulus package

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The Modi government on Thursday announced another financial stimulus package, as a part of Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharamana announced 12 new measures under the new Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 stimulus package to boost the Indian economy amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The measures announced by the centre are expected to be aimed at sectors worst hit by the … Read more

Samsung to relocate mobile display plant from China, to invest Rs 4,825 crore in Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh: Details of the deal

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 Smartphone major  Samsung is all set to relocate its mobile and IT  display production unit from China to Uttar Pradesh and invest Rs 4,825 crore in the state. According to the reports, the new production plant by  Samsung will be the first high-technique project, which is being set up in India after relocating from China. The new project is likely to generate 1,500 … Read more

Demands to legalise MSPs is retrograde, can destroy the farm sector and hurt the Indian economy: Explained

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Ever since the Modi government passed three farm laws to free the country’s agricultural marketing and procurement systems, the farmers, especially from Punjab have hit the streets to demand a rollback on the law. One of the main arguments of the protesting farmers is that the newly enacted laws would alter the existing procurement system … Read more

Now private sector banks can conduct government transactions, union government lifts embargo

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Just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the private sector, the union government has decided to lift a ban that was there on private sector banks from government transactions. In a major reform in the financial sector, the embargo on the grant of government business to private banks was lifted by the finance ministry. … Read more

Union Government announces ₹15,000 crore interest-free 50 year loan for states to spend on capital projects

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The Union Finance Ministry has decided to provide an additional amount of upto Rs 15,000 crore to states as interest-free 50-year loans for spending on capital projects. The Department of Expenditure has issued fresh guidelines in this regard on the “Scheme of Financial Assistance to States for Capital Expenditure” for the financial year 2021-22. Under this Scheme, … Read more