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Government e-Market portal eyes Rs 1.5 lakh crore worth of procurement in
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 24 (ANI): Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has attained an annual procurement of Rs 1 Lakh crore in the current financial year and this figure is likely to surge to Rs 1.5 lakh crore in 2022-23, Prashant Kumar Singh, CEO, GeM, said on Thursday.
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India sets target to raise share of natural gas in energy mix to 15 per ce
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 24 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi government has set a target to raise the share of natural gas in the energy mix to 15 per cent by 2030 from the current around 6.7 per cent, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Rameswar Teli said on Thursday.
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PM Modi highlights strength of Indian industry, MSMEs, agri sectors as exp
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 23 (ANI): Following India's merchandise exports crossing the USD 400 billion mark in the current financial year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India's growing exports is a symbol of the strength of the country's industry, MSMEs, manufacturing capa
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Rs 8.27 lakh crore transactions recorded through BHIM-UPI platform
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 23 (ANI): Bharat Interface for Money-Unified Payments Interface (BHIM-UPI) has emerged as the preferred payment mode of the citizens and has achieved a record of 452.75 crore digital payment transactions with the value of Rs 8.27 lakh crore till 28 February in the cu
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India's merchandise exports cross $400 billion for first time
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 23 (ANI): India's merchandise exports crossed the $400 billion mark in the current financial year, nine days ahead of the target, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday.
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India's coal demand likely to increase by 63 pc by 2030
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 23 (ANI): India's coal demand is projected to increase to 1.3-1.5 billion tonnes by 2030, an increase of around 63 per cent from the current level, despite a big push given to renewable/non-fossil based energy sources, Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary
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Retirement and second home market size will increase to $4 billion by 2026
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 22 (ANI): India's retirement and second home market segment is expected to grow annually by 23.63 per cent in the next 5 years taking the size of the market to USD 4.021 billion by 2026 from the current size of around USD 1.4 billion, an industry report showed. Read More
Crude oil import from Russia 'miniscule', only 0.2 pc of total imports i
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 21 (ANI): Allaying fears of short supply of crude oil amid Russia-Ukraine conflict, Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday said that 60 per cent of India's crude oil needs are met from Gulf countries, and imports from Russia are minuscule and amount
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ASEAN special envoy begins first official mission to Myanmar
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], March 21 (ANI): Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, the current special envoy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) reached Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw on Monday, for a three-day visit to the country.
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India's maize exports at all-time high of USD 816.31 million
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 20 (ANI): The export of maize has touched USD 816.31 million in the first ten months of the current fiscal 2021-22 (April-January), already exceeding the USD 634.85 million achieved during the last financial year, Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry informed on S
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China accuses Nepal of 'double standards' on US grant aid
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 18 (ANI): China sees the current Nepali Congress-led government as pro-Western and anti-China with a Chinese official saying that Communist Party of Nepal CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has double standards on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
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Direct tax collections surge 48 per cent to Rs 13.63 lakh crore
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): Net direct tax collections surged by 48.4 per cent to Rs 13,63,038 crore in the current financial year till March 16 as compared with the Rs 9,18,430.5 crore over the corresponding period of last year, the government data showed on Thursday.
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