President of Vietnam Tran Dai Quang during his State Visit to India from 02-04 March 2018 held delegation-level talks with the Prime Minister of India, Narenda Modi; reflecting significant deepening of bilateral relations and enhanced multidimensional engagement since the successful visit of Prime Minister Modi to Vietnam in 2016 and elevation of the relationship to a Comprehensive Strat...
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TAPI to Feed Natural Gas to Afghanistan, Pakistan & India
TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India), the long-awaited 1814-kilometers Gas pipeline project, was officially inaugurated by Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani in the country’s western Herat province with the launching of construction work on the Afghan section of a natural gas pipeline near the town of Serhetabat, Turkmenistan on February 23, 2018 in the presence of Tu...
Straw Management System to Save Environment from Air Pollution
Super Straw Management System is now mandatory in Punjab while using the combine harvester machines for harvesting paddy (rice) crop to check the dangerous trend of stubble burning and to save environment from air pollution. Issuing the instructions, on Monday 12 February 2018, under section 31 A of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, Punjab Pollution Contro...
Regulator to Enhance Confidence in Audit & Financial Disclosures
National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA), an independent regulator for the auditing profession, establishment has been approved by the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 1, 2018. This is one of the key changes brought in the Companies Act, 2013, on the specific recommendations in 21st report of the Standing Committee on Finance. NFRA will oversee t...
GSAT-6A Will Provide Mobile Communication to Armed Forces
GSAT-6A, a communication satellite that will provide new possibilities for mobile applications, was successfully launched into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on board India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle - GSLV-F08 with indigenous Cryogenic Upper Stage on Thursday March 29, 2018. This launch of GSLV was its twelfth and took place from the Second Launch Pad at Sat...
Fugitive Economic Offenders to be coerced to Return & Face Law
Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, 2018 that would help in laying down measures to deter economic offenders from evading the process of Indian law by remaining outside the jurisdiction of Indian courts, proposal of the Ministry of Finance, has been approved by the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on March 1, 2018, for introducing to the Parliament. Property of Fugitive E...
Electoral Bonds to Bring Transparency in Election Funding
In a significant development to evolve a transparent political funding system and to cleanse the system of political funding in the country and in keeping with the government’s desire to move to a cashless economy, the government of India has come up with the new scheme of electoral bonds. In the new mechanism of electoral funding through issuance of bonds the quantum of money which a donor has contributed to a ...
DefExpo 2018 to Boost Defence Manufacturing in India
DefExpo 2018 or Defence Expo 2018’ held in Chennai at Tiruvidanthal, in Kancheepuram district from 11 to 14 April 2018with its tag line “India: The Emerging Defence Manufacturing Hub”to showcase India’s capability in export of defence systems and components hada gathering of defence industry representatives from private and public sector representing some 500 Indian companies an...
Corporate Governance Key to Economic Efficiency & Growth
Mint Corporate Strategy Awards 2018 were given away by the Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu on March 23, 2018 in Mumbai with “Corporate Governance” as the theme of the awards. Addressing the gathering Naidu said that Indian corporates need to Reform, Perform and Transform so that they can open up new vistas of global opportunities which would in turn benefit our country and its ...
Jordan an Oasis of Stability & Peace in the Troubled Middle East
Jordanian King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein was in Delhi from February 27 to March 1, 2018 and held bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 1, 2018; before both the leaders addressed a gathering of prominent representatives of various sects of Islam in India, at a conference on "Islamic Heritage: Promoting Understanding and Moderation". King Abdullah II w...