Published on May 18, 2024 at 04:37 pm (IST) In an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar talked about the India-China standoff, Gulpatwant Pannon case, tense relations with Canada and many other issues. In this interview clip, Jaishankar answers a question about whether India is prepared to respond to China when … Read more
NEW DELHI: With the World Bank scheduled to release its first business readiness report in September this year, the commerce ministry has started studying international trade topics in detail to further improve India’s ranking, an official said. World Bank Business Readiness Report: Governments commit to global trade themes to drive rankings Ready for Business is … Read more
A committee of ministers headed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday decided to lift the ban on onion exports. Farmers in Maharashtra have welcomed the decision and hope to get better prices in the international market. Experts said one of the reasons for lifting the ban was the huge onion stocks in Gujarat … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of over 1.30 lakh houses in Gujarat under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) and other housing schemes, saying this marked the fulfillment of the “Modiji Assurance”. Prime Minister Modi said his government’s biggest achievement in the past decade was lifting 250 million people out … Read more
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday had sharp words for the Congress party, saying the country needed to be governed with integrity and not through “extra-constitutional institutions”. She criticized Congress’s alleged tendency to undermine the achievements of successive governments, specifically citing their handling of inflation during their tenure in the unified Palestinian Authority. Federal Finance … Read more
Published on February 8, 2024 at 02:36 pm (IST) Congress president Mallikarjun Haq today released a “black paper” to counter the Modi government’s “white paper”. Haq said the “black book” highlighted the failures of the Narendra Modi government in terms of unemployment, inflation and the plight of farmers. Previously, the Modi government announced in the … Read more