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India-Belarus Inter-Governmental Commission

The 6th Session of the India-Belarus Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation was held today here. The session was co-chaired from the Indian Side by Dr. E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry and Mr. Dmitry S. Katerinich, Minister of Industry of the Republic of Belarus. Highlighting that… Read More

Government approves Free Trade LPG (FTL) Scheme for selling 5kg LPG Cylinders through COCO Retail Outlets

Government approves Free Trade LPG (FTL) Scheme for selling 5kg LPG Cylinders through COCO Retail Outlets ; Scheme to be launched on Pilot Basis in Four Metro & Bangalore cities ; COCO Retail Outlets to sell 5 kg LPG cylinders at Non-domestic prices ; The Scheme introduces flexibility of time and quantity in getting LPG to benefit mobile… Read More

Indian Electrical Equipment Industry Mission Plan 2022

Shri Praful Patel Launches Vision 2022 for the Indian Electrical Equipment Industry Says, Government Must Support the Growth of Domestic Industry ; Electrical Equipment Industry output to Reach US $ 100 Billion Shri Praful Patel, Union Minister for Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, here today launched the ˜Indian Electrical Equipment Industry… Read More

ACC Appointments

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the following :- (i) The extension of Dr.Prajapati Trivedi as Secretary (Performance Management) and Chairman, National Authority for Chemicals Weapons Convention, Cabinet Secretariat, for a further period of one year beyond 08.08.2013. (ii) Cancellation of orders for appointment of Ms.Annie Moracs, IP&TA&FS(79) as Additional Secretary and Financial… Read More

TRAI issues the Telecommunications Mobile Number Portability (Fifth Amendment) Regulations, 2013 for corporate mobile numbers

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has issued the Telecommunications Mobile Number Portability (Fifth Amendment) Regulations, 2013. After implementation of Mobile Number Portability, the Authority had received complaints from the subscribers of corporate mobile numbers that their porting requests have been rejected by the donor operators under the category Contractual Obligation for want of permission/authorization… Read More

TRAI releases Consultation Paper on Valuation and Reserve Price of Spectrum

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released Consultation Paper on Valuation and Reserve Price of Spectrum. On 10th July 2013 the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) sought the TRAI™s recommendations on the applicable reserve price for the auction of spectrum in 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands. In this context, TRAI has… Read More

Domestic Tourism Increases by More than Nineteen Percent During 2012

Domestic Tourism Increases by More than Nineteen Percent During 2012 ; Foreign Tourist Arrival also Goes up by Over Six Percent; Andhra Pradesh Continues to be Most Popular Destination Among Domestic Tourists While Maharashtra Most Favoured State of Foreign Tourists The number of domestic tourist visits (DTVs) to States/UTs registered an increase of 19.87% during the… Read More

Twenty-first Meeting of Central Supervisory Board

The 21st meeting of the Central Supervisory Board (CSB) was held in New Delhi today. The meeting was on PC & PNDT Act. It was held under the Chairmanship of Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare. In his opening remarks, Shri Azad said his Ministry has increased its engagement with… Read More

Comments invited on Draft Sports Bill

The Union Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Jitendra Singh has sent the draft of the National Sports Development Bill to the Union Council of Ministers, Leaders of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, States/UTs Sports Ministers, Standing Committee/Consultative Members of MYAS, Leaders of various political parties in… Read More

Wool Importers Get Relief on Quarantine Issue

Wool Importers Get Relief on Quarantine Issue ; Value Added Woolen Products to Benefit The wool importers have been complaining of difficulty and harassment on quarantine issue for the last three years. Some Quarantine Officers and Custom Officers had stopped clearance of wool imports seeking animal quarantine clearance/ NOC. The wool importers raised this issue before… Read More

Grant of Family Pension and Gratuity to the eligible member of the family of any employee/pensioner

Family pension is payable to the family of a Government employee or pensioner after his death. Difficulties in payment arise when a Government Servant or pensioner goes missing. Clarificatory instructions have recently been issued by the Central Government for payment of benefits in such cases. According to these instructions, the family must lodge a report… Read More

Payment of Arrears of family pension

In case of death of a pensioner, all money payable to the pensioner on account of pension are payable to the nominee of the deceased pensioner. In the absence of any valid nomination made by the pensioner, the arrears of his/her pension are paid to the legal heir. However, dependants of some pensioners expressed difficulties… Read More

First Meeting of Manufacturing Industry Promotion Board

First Meeting of Manufacturing Industry Promotion Board; Reviews Progress of NMIZS, Capital Goods Sector The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Anand Sharma today called for accelerating the implementation of National Manufacturing Policy (NMP) and noted with satisfaction the good progress made by some states in land acquisition for National Investment and Manufacturing Zones (NMIZ).… Read More