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India logs 128 new Covid infections, active cases decline to 1,998

A decrease of 37 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours

Putting every ounce of its energy to eliminate visa wait in India: Official

The US is putting every ounce of its energy to eliminate the long visa wait time in India, including sending a cadre of consular officers to India and opening up its other overseas embassies in as far away as Germany and Thailand for Indian visa applicants, a senior US visa officer has said. We're putting every ounce of our energy toward eliminating these (visa) wait times in India, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services, Julie Stufft told PTI in an interview. Normalisation of visa operations around the world right now is a top priority, she said. We're sending a cadre of consular officers to help our staff in our embassy and consulates in India. They're working shifts during the day. They're working weekends, mainly to do visitor visa interviews, which of course are now the only remaining visa type that we have long wait times for, she said. The US has one of the largest visa operations in the world. We have many, many different visa types that we need to serve in India. ...

India's capex spending likely to slow on lower tax haul, global recession

Analysts say that as recessionary woes spread globally, India's tax collections and asset sales are likely to fall.

Debt restructuring talks with India, China successful, says Sri Lanka prez

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday informed the parliament that talks with India and China on debt restructuring are successful

Guyana expects proposal from India for long-term crude oil purchases

Guyana and India in 2021 failed to reach an agreement for direct sales of Guyana's sweet crude to Indian state refiners

India in advanced stage to deliver on global plan for TB vaccine: Mandaviya

Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya extended his full support for a global plan for a new tuberculosis vaccine by 2025 and said India is fully prepared and in an advanced stage for taking this forward

India writes to IMF backing Sri Lanka's debt restructuring plan: Report

Sri Lanka owes India around $1 billion that will come under the debt restructuring plan

India making big strides in ease of doing business, says DPIIT Secretary

All labour laws have been consolidated into four codes, which have been passed by Parliament and the government is in the process of their final implementation, he said

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UK Home Secy orders extradition of arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari to India

British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has ordered the extradition of Sanjay Bhandari, an accused middleman and consultant in arms deals, to India to face charges of tax evasion and money laundering

India among few nations evolving food systems for farmer-allied SMEs: Study

India figures among the few countries that have been able to evolve their food systems for a broader set of outcomes by unlocking the potential of small and medium-sized enterprises, a new WEF report said on Monday. The World Economic Forum report, released here on the first day or its Annual Meeting 2023, said the countries that tackle food crisis can boost jobs, health and nature and also meet net zero goals better. It listed India, Ghana and Vietnam as among the countries that have been able to evolve their food systems by unlocking the potential of SMEs, particularly those that are farmer-allied and operating in local food chains. Food systems, when transformed, can help solve some of the world's toughest problems, from climate change to resilient livelihoods, the report said. "Transforming food systems provide healthy and nutritious diets and dignified jobs for farmers and producers. This report shows how economic development with environment protection supports communities in

Finance ministry increases 'risk profiling' of shipments from China

Govt taking steps to address possible cases of under-invoicing

Japan, India hold their first joint air drill as China concerns grow

About four F-2 and four F-15 fighters are expected to take part in the drills that started Monday and will run through around Jan

WEF 2023: ReNew Power explores green hydro project in India, Egypt

The firm, which now generates nearly 1.8% of India's total electricity annually, has a total capacity of 13 Gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar, including projects in the works

India to become global knowledge superpower: MoS Education Subhash Sarkar

Union Minister Subhas Sarkar on Saturday said the aim of the government is to make the country a global knowledge superpower. Sarkar, the Union Minister of State for Education, said this while addressing the 5th globalised education forum of the Indian Chamber of Commerce where he dwelt on the topic 'Revisiting the idea of Internationalisation - Global to local.' "Our mission is to make India a superpower in the educational sector as the country has formulated a multi-disciplinary education system having the internationally relevant curriculum which will help in generating employment," he said. "Today India has not only the potential to be the knowledge centre of the world with the highest number of educated youths, but it is the skill capital to take the country forward which can be accomplished by imparting education on global scale," the doctor-turned-minister said. Sarkar said the National Education Policy 2020 will attract international students to make India a global hub, giv

India's counter response shows country won't be coerced by anybody: EAM

India's counter response to terrorism emanating from Pakistan and to aggressive cross-border skirmish with China displayed that the nation will not be coerced by anybody, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday. He added that the country will do everything to ensure its security. The Balakot air strikes conducted by the Air Force in response to the Pulwama terror attack had sent the much-needed message across, he said referring to the incident in 2019. "On the northern borders, China is today seeking to change the status quo by bringing in large forces and violating our borders. Despite COVID-19, our counter response was strong and firm. Our troops deployed in thousands safeguarded our frontiers in extreme terrain and harsh border and (protection of borders) continues to this day," Jaishankar said while addressing the Tamil weekly Thuglak's 53rd anniversary here on Saturday evening. "The national wellbeing has many facets and national security is without question th

After Singapore, Twitter likely to vacate India offices in Mumbai, Delhi

The process for vacating offices was initiated in December last year, according to reports citing sources

India lets banks use face recognition, iris scan for transactions: Rpts

The Indian government is allowing banks to verify individual transactions that exceed a certain annual limit using facial recognition and an iris scan in some cases, in a bid to reduce fraud

Jerath Path Labs expands the reach in India in allergy-testing

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In a first, India among the top five ECM markets globally in 2022

Interestingly, in 2022 India also broke into the top-five league in terms of market capitalization