(PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met with his counterparts from Iran, Armenia and Uzbekistan and exchanged views on the recent developments in Afghanistan, confronting regional challenges and the ways to boost bilateral ties. Jaishankar, who is in the Tajik capital to attend a key meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on the situation in Afghanistan after its takeover by the Taliban last month, in a tweet said he was glad to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian on the sidelines of the SCO meet in Dushanbe. “Discussed strengthening our bilateral relations and working together on regional challenges,…
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Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship today visited Government ITI Kohima. During his visit he inaugurated the Entrepreneurship Development Centre at Government ITI Kohima Complex which is made in collaboration between the Department of Employment Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of Nagaland and IIE, Guwahati. The EDC was established under the SANKALP project of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India. He also inspected the Mobile Skill Morung which is a Training Workshop on Wheels to address the skilling needs of the rural youths established under SANKALP project…
To empower youth by way of providing entry level training in industry relevant skills through Railway training institutes as part of 75 years of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology launched Rail Kaushal Vikas Yojana, a program under the aegis of Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), in Rail Bhavan today. On this occasion, Shri Suneet Sharma, Chairman and CEO, Railway Board and other senior officials of Railways were also present. Speaking on the occasion, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw said, “It is an auspicious day as Vishwakarma jayanti is being celebrated…
In a bid to empower India’s youth and encourage more trainers to join the Skill India Mission, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) today honoured trainers and launched four new trades at a digital conclave organized on the third edition of Kaushalacharya Awards. At the event, 41 trainers from Skill India’s several initiatives and training programmes — Directorate General of Training (DGT), Apprenticeship, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) and Entrepreneurship — were felicitated for their contribution towards creating a future-ready skilled workforce and ensuring that capacity-building is a continued endeavor. Shri Dharmendra Pradhan,…
Team Khabarindia Wishes Prime Minister Narendra Modiji a very Happy Birthday. We wish you a good health and hope this new era of progress and prosperity continue under your vision. May our country scale new heights under your esteemed leadership. Happy Birthday Modiji!
(IE) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh University in Aligarh district on September 14, almost two years after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced its formation.The university will be built on 92.27 acres of land in the village of Lodha in the district’s Kol tehsil. District officials told The Indian Express that the land was in their possession. In the first phase, the project is expected to cost Rs 101 crore, of which Rs 10 crore was released in March. An administrative block, a library, common facilities, and hostel and residential areas would be constructed in…
(FPJ) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a ‘Maharatna’ and a Fortune Global 500 Company has announced the appointment of Arun Kumar Singh as the Chairman and Managing Director of the company and consequently he has taken charge yesterday. A Mechanical Engineer by qualification, Singh was earlier Director (Marketing) on the Board of the company, holding additional charge of Director (Refineries) and Director (Finance). In his more than 36 years of experience in Oil and Gas industry, he has headed Business Units and Entities in BPCL such as Retail, LPG, Pipelines, Supply Chain Optimization, etc. He also held the position of President…
(LiveMint) Cairn Energy Plc is considering settling a protracted tax dispute with the Indian government that will fetch the UK oil explorer tax refunds totalling $1.06 billion. The company said it is considering entering into statutory undertakings with the government of India under a new law, clearing the way for the release of its assets seized since 2014. The refund will allow Cairn Energy to return funds to its shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks and further expand its business, the company said. Cairn Energy is the first of the 17 companies with pending retrospective tax disputes to publicly agree to…
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(LiveMint) Union Ministers Anurag Thakur and Piyush Goyal while addressing the cabinet briefing on Wednesday, announced that the cabinet has approved the proposal for production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for specific segments in the textiles sector. The decision was taken in a meeting which was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The cabinet has approved the PLI scheme for textiles for MMF (man-made fibre) apparel, MMF fabrics and ten segments/products of technical textiles with a budgetary outlay of ₹10,683 crore that will be provided over 5 years. “So far, we have primarily focused on cotton textile. But 2/3 share of the international textile market is…