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Government working on policy for low grade iron ore beneficiation: Steel Secy

While lump ore or high-grade iron ore contains 65.53% Fe (iron), fines are inferior grade ore and ha...

Tesla 'silent'; yet to communicate its India plans: Official

"They (Tesla) are just silent.. the (EV) policy was always meant for everybody," the official said w...

Companies knowingly violated FAME subsidy scheme, finds panel

The government, after an initial probe, sent out recovery notices in the current fiscal (2023-24) to...

FAME 3 likely to be rolled out soon with INR 10,000 cr outlay, with support for hybrids but not e-cars

Hybrid cars may also get support under FAME 3, subject to adhering to the price cap, if passenger ca...

Government Announces Free e-KYC For Ration Card Verification, Deadline Approaching

If you are a ration card holder and have not done e-KYC yet, then this news is for you. The ration c...

Centre raises paddy MSP by ₹117 to ₹2,300 per quintal for 2024-25

The government on June 19 raised the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy by 5.35% to ₹2,300 per qu...

PM-elect Dick Schoof, Dutch government sworn-in 7 months after far-right party won elections

The Netherlands has a different Prime Minister for the first time in 14 years as Dutch King Willem-A...

Should States get special packages outside Finance Commission allocations?

In the run-up to the Union Budget, Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu, the Chief Ministers of Bihar ...

Opposition slams budget as ‘unfair’; government denies charge

In both Houses of Parliament, the Opposition attacked the government, accusing it of presenting a “d...

Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill, amends LTCG tax provision on immovable properties

The Finance Bill 2024 was passed in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday (August 7, 2024) with an amendment re...

Why did the Centre alter its pension plan?

The story so far: Last weekend, the Union Cabinet signed off on a major shift in the approach for pr...

Japan to give up to USD 2.4 bn in new support for domestic EV battery production

Japan to provide up to USD 2.4 billion in subsidies for electric-vehicle battery production.Japan wi...

Tuhin Kanta Pandey appointed Finance Secretary

The Centre on Saturday (September 7, 2024) named 1987 batch IAS officer from the Orissa cadre Tuhin ...

Interim government should make way for a ‘more efficient’ set-up: BNP leader Rumeen Farhana

With countrywide incidents of lynching of political activists from the deposed Awami League and grow...

U.K. PM’s Chief of Staff Sue Gray steps down, takes new role

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff Sue Gray has resigned just over three months af...

Satire | One nation, one pollution

India is a world champion in air pollution. Every year, in the Winter Olympics, Indian cities, led b...