The 7th Foreign Office Consultations between India and Brunei Darussalam was held on 24th June, 2019 in New Delhi. The Indian side was led by Smt. Vijay Thakur Singh, Secretary(East) and Brunei side was led by Mrs. Hajah Siti Norishan Haji Abdul Ghafor, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign ...

Korean Ambassador to India Bong-kil Shin launched 'Jaipur Foot Korea'. It is a collaborative initiative between Korea and Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), a prosthetic limb organisation. Under this agreement, Korea will provide financial and technical assistance to further ...

American 20-year-old Sofia Kenin saved three match points on her way to beating third seed Belinda Bencic 6-7(2) 7-6(5) 6-4 in the Mallorca Open grass court final. On three occasions Swiss Bencic was a point away from victory at 5-4 in the second set but Kenin refused to surrender as she roared ...

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy governor Viral Acharya, the lone man or the last man in RBI, who often batted for central bank's independence from both inside and outside quarters has reportedly called it a day. This is the second top level exit after the governor Urjit Patel, also an ...

Narendra Modi Government has appointed senior IPS officer Samant Goel as the new Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief on June 26, 2019. In another move, government has appointed senior IPS officer Arvind Kumar as the director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB). Their names were finalized by the ...

Amit Agarwal, senior vice-president, Amazon and country manager, India, has been appointed as the new chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India . He assumes office at a time when the industry is going through a growth trajectory with more than 500 million internet users in India. ...

Veyil Marangal (Trees Under the Sun), directed by Bijukumar Damodaran, won the award for ‘Outstanding Artistic Achievement’ at the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival, becoming the first Indian film to win a major award at the festival. The film was one among the 3,964 entries submitted from ...

Universal smart card driving licences are on the anvil, the government said . "The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has decided to modify the format of driving licences to laminated card without chip or smart card type driving licences," Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari ...

The Lok Sabha  passed the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Bill, 2019, making a trust or any entity notified by the Central government eligible for consideration of grant of permission to set up a unit in special economic zones. Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said the ...

The Government of India, the Government of Uttarakhand and the World Bank today signed a loan agreement of $31.58 million for the Uttarakhand Public Financial Management Strengthening Project that will help improve the state’s ability to manage its finances and better utilize funds for development ...

Krishnaswamy Natarajan has been appointed as the next director general of Indian Coast Guard and would be replacing incumbent Rajendra Singh who is retiring after three and a half years of illustrious command. Natarajan joined the Coast Guard on January 18, 1984, and holds a Masters Degree in ...

The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $147 million loan agreement to provide basic urban services to the people of Jharkhand and help improve the management capacity of the urban local bodies (ULBs) in the state. "The Jharkhand Municipal Reform Programme will focus on improving the municipal ...