October 26, 2015
External Affairs
India is Africa’s fourth-largest trading partner after China, the US and the EU. South Africa is already a major coal supplier to India. India’s current trade with Africa is around USD 75 billion dollar and it has granted a whopping USD 7.4 billion for various developmental and capacity building projects ...
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October 23, 2015
Communications and IT, West Bengal
West Bengal Information and Communication Technology Policy, 2012 was implemented with the goal of making the state one of the leaders in IT/ ITeS and ESDM sectors and to transform it into a knowledge-driven welfare society. Objective: To be in the top three states in India in terms of turnover ...
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October 20, 2015
External Affairs
Russia is an important partner for India in peaceful uses of nuclear energy. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, chairing the 21st India-Russia Inter-Governmental Consultations, looked at ways to enhance the mutual direct investment to $15 billion by 2025. India and Russia today discussed ...
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October 17, 2015
Communications and IT, Gujarat
Gujarat is one of the most developed and investor-friendly states in India and has always paved way for new ideas and innovations to stride in. In recent times, the state has taken a few significant steps in the field of Information Technology. The new IT policy of Gujarat for 2014-2019 ...
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October 12, 2015
Communications and IT, Karnataka
I4 policy stands for IT, ITES, Innovation Incentives Policy. India’s IT capital Bangalore today stands as the second largest IT hub in the world next only to Silicon Valley with over almost 11 lakh direct and over 27 lakh indirect employment. According to industry sources, by the year 2020 the ...
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October 12, 2015
External Affairs, News
The Indian Investment Initiative was launched on 9th Oct which aims to bring investment from Indian diaspora living in the US. The initiative was launched in partnership with US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Calvert Foundation. The highlights of this initiative are: This is first of this kind of ...
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October 6, 2015
External Affairs
India hopes to sign three large agreements on water, energy and education, during Indian President Pranab Mukherjee’s state visit to Israel. Ever since India established diplomatic relations with Jewish State in January 1992, bilateral cooperation between the two countries has increased. Indian multinationals have made long-term investments to the tune ...
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October 6, 2015
Swachh Bharat
Kalbelia, a folk dancer who entertains tourists for a living, had vowed to cut half of his moustache if people in his village did not build toilets by the first anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His pledge, in a land where a man’s ...
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October 6, 2015
External Affairs
PM Narendra Modi has said that Germany will provide India more than 2 billion euros ($2.25 billion) for developing a clean energy corridor and solar projects. PM has made ambitious renewable energy targets a key part of his development agenda and climate change mitigation commitments ahead of a landmark international ...
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October 6, 2015
External Affairs, MHRD, News
Europe’s largest economy Germany and Asia’s third largest economy India have a healthy bi-lateral economic relations despite the sluggish speed of concluding Indo-EU Free Trade Agreement. As Indian Prime Minister Modi’s most of the policies such as Make in India or Digital India, are focused on making India a manufacturing ...
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