The number of passengers having installed the Digi Yatra application on their mobile phones has increased to 45.8 Lakhs as on February 10, 2024. It’s an increase of 20.5 per cent from 38 lakhs as on 1st January, 2024. Digi Yatra application user base as on February 20, 2024: Sl. No. Platform As on 01/01/2024 As on 10/02/2024 % increase i ...

 A 3600 APPROACH Odisha has become a destination for investors and entrepreneurs from across the globe to create value for all the stakeholders (business, community, working class) by leveraging several advantages that Odisha offers. The state has industry-friendly policies, enabling infrastructure, and ensures swift and agile administration to enriching experience for the industry players. The state has been able to ...

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi approved the amendment in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy on space sector.  Now, the satellites sub-sector has been divided into three different activities with defined limits for foreign investment in each such sector. The Indian Space Policy 2023 was notified as an overarching, composite and dynamic framework to implement the vision for ...

National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), the Navratna CPSE, under the Ministry of Mines, Government of India,has reported robust performance across all its business units, with best-ever annual production and sales during the Financial Year 2022-23. According to the financial results, taken on record in the Board of Directors meeting held today, NALCO has posted a net profit of Rs. 1544 ...

Remarkable growth in the number of passengers carried by domestic airlines has been noticed. According to the traffic data submitted by various domestic airlines, the number of passengers reached a record-breaking 503.92 lakhs, marking a substantial annual growth of 42.85% compared to the corresponding period of the previous year which was 352.75 lakhs passengers. This remarkable surge in passenger number ...

Union Budget 2023-24 has a slew of measures to give boost to exports and help accelerated growth of manufacturing in the country.  The indirect tax simplification and rationalization has a clear export-oriented focus. Following are highlights for export and manufacturing Sector: The Department of Commerce’s recommendation on lab grown diamond (LGD) has been accepted whereby the research grant of Rs. ...

Union Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia along with General Dr. Vijay Kumar Singh (Rtd.) today inaugurated a flight connecting Bhubaneswar, Kolkata, and Jamshedpur. IndiaOne Air will operate this route from 31st January 2023. These operations shall be increased to daily operations effective from 01st February 2023 under the RCS-UDAN scheme. The schedule of the operations would ...

Chairman, Khadi and Village Industries Commission Shri Manoj Kumar today released  margin money grant of Rs 100.29 crore to 3223 beneficiaries of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand under the Prime Minister Employment Generation Program (PMEGP) implemented by KVIC in Varanasi .   Shri Ravindra Jaiswal,  Minister of State , Govt. of U.P. , Dr. Sunil Patel, MLA (Rohania), ...

The G20 Startup20 Engagement Group will hold its inception meeting in Hyderabad this week, featuring delegates from G20 nations and nine special invitees from observer countries, representatives from multilateral organizations as well as the Indian startup ecosystem. The group formed under G20 after India assumed presidency will convene from January 28-29 anticipating a productive development of policy recommendations on entrepreneurship ...

The Central Government under Section 20A of the MMDR Act has issued directions and circulated guidelines for Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra Kalyan Yojna (PMKKKY) on 16.09.2015 to be implemented by the District Mineral Foundations (DMF) for taking up development and welfare projects/programs in mining affected areas. Further, Section 9B and Section 15(4) of MMDR Act empowers State Governments to frame ...