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Battery Swapping Facility Quick Interchange Service inaugurated in Chandigarh

Shri V P Singh Badnore, Governor of Punjab-cum-Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, alongwith the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan today inaugurated Battery Swapping FacilityQuick Interchange Service (QIS) at Chandigarh.Shri TarunKapoor, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Shri Sanjiv Singh, Chairman, IndianOil, Officers of Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, the Union Territory of Chandigarh, and ...

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Conversion of knowledge into wealth is important for development of manufacturing sector in India – Shri Nitin Gadkari

Union Minister for MSME and Road Transport and Highways, Shri Nitin Gadkari  held meeting yesterday via video conferencing with the representatives of the Engineering Exports Promotion Council (EEPC) to discuss on the growth of the sector post the pandemic situation. He motivated the panel by suggesting that even though there are short term difficulties  being faced by each sector of ...

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Union FPI Minister invited all states & investors to convert the challenges into opportunities for food processing sector in India

Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Union FPI Minister chaired the second series of Food Processing Edition of Exclusive Investment Forum by Invest India, the National Investment Promotion & Facilitation Agency of the Government of India today.  This was in continuation to the first investment forum held on 22nd June 2020. The forum witnessed participation from the senior most policy makers from both Union ...

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Ministry of MSME shows the way to make MSMEs break their Barriers and become Champions

In a historic move, bold initiative and landmark decision, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) has come out with a consolidated notification in the form of guidelines for classification and registration of MSMEs. It may be recalled that Ministry had published a Notification on 1st June, 2020 with new criteria for classification of MSMEs based on Investment and Turnover. ...

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KVIC launches Sandalwood and Bamboo plantation, a new initiative to spur monetization of its assets

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), in a first of its kind initiative has begun exploring the untapped but highly profitable venture of sandalwood and bamboo tree plantation for monetization of its assets. Seeking to encourage commercial plantation of sandalwood and bamboo, the KVIC has begun a drive with plantation of 500 saplings each of sandalwood and bamboo at ...

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Decline in Arctic sea ice does not sound good for the environment, warns NCPOR

TheNationalCentreofPolarandOceanResearch(NCPOR) has foundadramaticdeclinein the Arcticseaice due to globalwarming.Thedeclineofseaicehasledtolocalized increase in evaporation, air humidity, cloud cover, and rainfall. Arctic sea ice is a sensitive indicator of climate change and has strong retaliatory effects on other components of the climatesystem. In its observations, NCPOR has noted that the largest decline in Arctic sea ice in the past 41 years happened in July ...

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Gravel geometry of the Indus river unravel its paleoclimatic history

 Researchers from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun, an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, have traced the paleoclimatic history of the Indus River in Ladakh Himalaya with the help of geometric data from overlapping gravels of channel fills. They studied the discharge during periods in which the river experienced an increase in land elevation, ...

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India prepares for a change in Electricity sector through Proposed Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020

Shri R. K Singh, the Minister of State (i/c) for Power & MNRE , today, held a Press Meet through Video Conferencing and underlined the importance of proposed reforms in the power sector, dispelling doubts and misinformation. He stated that the reforms are steps in the direction of making the sector consumer centric as we are all here to serve ...

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Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurates Product Application and Development Centre at Paradip, Odisha;

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan along with the Chief Minister of Odisha Shri Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated a Product Application & Development Centre (PADC) setup by Indian Oil at Paradip, through video conference. PADC has been setup by IndianOil at Paradip with a capex of Rs 43 crores, adjacent to its Refinery and Petrochemicals ...

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Enhanced Import Duty on Bamboo Sticks to give a big boost to Agarbatti and Bamboo Industries in India: KVIC

he Central Government’s decision to increase import duty on bamboo sticks from 10% to 25% will open up new avenues of self-employment in the country. Welcoming the decision in a statement issued today, Khadi & Village Industries Commission(KVIC)  has  said that, in the next 8-10 months, at least one lakh new jobs will be created in the Agarbatti industry, a ...

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