Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has sought the intervention of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for release of Central share of Viability Gap Funding (VGF) for Vizhinjam International Seaport Limited (VISL) without imposing a condition that the state must repay it later, in order for it to be spared of a potential financial loss of…
New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) should not drift away from their competencies, as their decisions impact the global monetary systems, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman warned on Wednesday. Speaking at a discussion on “Bretton Woods Institutions at 80: Priorities for the Next Decade,” held on the sidelines of the…
New Delhi: As rural land records evolve, urban land management must also rise to meet the demand of rapid urbanization, said minister of state for Rural development Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani in New Delhi on Tuesday, adding that India has already digitized land records of 625,000 villages. across the country. More than administrative tools, accurate land…
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (Photo: PTI) 3 minutes read Last Updated: Oct 01 2024 | 1:06 PM ist Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday advised the Arunachal Pradesh government to adopt the cluster development approach as a key strategy for enhancing productivity and competitiveness as well as capacity building of micro and small…
In line with its Budget announcement earlier this year, the Finance Ministry has asked Public Sector Banks (PSBs) to undertake pilot programs of the new credit assessment model for MSMEs. The Indian Banks Association (IBA), which has been tasked with the responsibility to come up with the new credit assessment model, official sources said, is…
Representative image. Photo: Bloomberg 3 min read Last Updated : Aug 25 2024 | 8:14 PM IST India is positioning itself at the forefront of the next industrial revolution with its new biomanufacturing policy designed to tackle food, energy and climate challenges, officials said on Sunday. Approved by the Union Cabinet on Saturday, the BioE3…
Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday urged the business community to proactively and regularly engage with GST officials, encouraging open dialogue to find synergistic solutions to their concerns. Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) and its officers these days are “speedily addressing” problems of assesses (trade), Sitharaman said after inaugurating…
Ever since she stopped dyeing her hair more than a year back, waiting for the messy gray to grow into subdued salt, Nirmala Sitharaman has been particularly attentive to her sari selection. For years, she wore handlooms from her home state of Andhra Pradesh besides Tamil Nadu’s pattus, but there has been a stylistic shift…
