Cochin Shipyard signs ship repair agreement with U.S. Navy.
This facility in Kochi is the third shipyard in the country after Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) to enter into a Master Shipyard Repair Agreement (MRSA)


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🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇵🇰 On Rajnath's "Ghuskar Marenge" statement: US will encourage Ind & Pak to avoid escalation and resolve their outstanding issues through dialogue and will 'not get in the middle of the situation'

: State Dept Spox Mathew Miller

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Ministry of Home Affairs will deploy 100 more companies of Central Armed Paramilitary Forces (CAPF) in West Bengal on the direction of ECI.

ECI has asked Home Ministry to complete the deployment by 15th April. #MHA #LS2024 #GE2024

TSAT-1A, assembled at TASL’s Vemagal facility in Karnataka, will deliver high-resolution optical satellite images with increased collection capacity and low-latency delivery through its multispectral and hyperspectral capabilities.

#MakeinIndia #Space #Research
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South Korean automotive majors Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation on Monday announced a partnership with Exide Energy Solutions to localise electric vehicle (#EV) battery production in India.

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India, Oman conclude trade talks; to sign deal after elections

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Now you can find both voting date and candidates for any constituency in India for Lok Sabha Elections 2024 with
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🇮🇳 Govt is likely to modify the method of measuring highway construction in the country from ‘road km’ to ‘lane km’ from this financial year as the focus now shifts to building more expressways and roads that are of at least four lanes.

🛣 For actual comparison with past data, the NH construction details of earlier years would be converted to lane km, sources said.

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🇮🇳 The Government of India notifies the plan to delist 18 centrally protected monuments as they have “ceased to be of national importance”

Most of these monuments are from the pre-Independence era. The Kos Minars, for example, were introduced under the rule of Sher Shah Suri to mark a distance of a little over 3 km.

The list includes monuments from across Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

#Policy

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🔋 Tesla in talks with Reliance to set up EV manufacturing arm in India.

Sources say Maharashtra as the destination for the plant.

#EV #Manufacturing

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Apple has assembled $14 billion worth of iPhones in India in fiscal year 2024. Now, as much as 14%, or about 1 in 7, of its marquee devices are made in India.

#Manufacturing #India

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🇵🇰 Pakistan Def Min Khawaja Asif acknowledges that Begging has become a big business in Pakistan, approximately 10% of population is engaged in begging. Famous & big lawyers appear in the courts to bail the beggars when they are detained. In all the cities, begging point pick and drop service also provided to beggars. It is a matter of pride that Pakistan also export a large number of beggars, around 90% of beggars arrested in middle east are Pakistanis

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#Economy #IndianSubcontinent

Elon Musk to meet PM Modi in April, visit India to disclose Investment plans : Reports

The billionaire executive will meet PM Modi in the week of April 22 in New Delhi : Reports

#India #Manufacturing

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By 2028, Mumbai to Kolkata will almost have seamless access controlled expressway connectivity using the following expressways:

• Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway
• Nagpur-Bhandara-Gondia Expressway
• Raipur-Dhanbad Economic Corridor
• Varanasi-Kolkata Expressway

The only missing link would be from Bhandara to Raipur.

Credit : INI

#Infra

✈ IndiGo becomes world's 3rd most valuable airline by market cap.

IndiGo, India's largest airline, on Wednesday surpassed US-based Southwest Airlines in terms of market capitalisation to become the world's third most valuable airline, according to Bloomberg data.

💷 IndiGo's share price jumped by 4.73 per cent to Rs 3,806 on Wednesday, thereby elevating its market capitalisation to $17.605 billion, ahead of Southwest's market capitalisation of $17.333 billion.

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📰 BREAKING:

Al Jazeera: Israel carried out a targeted vehicle attack in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, resulting in the elimination of three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, along with their children.

#Gaza #Israel #conflict

Ratings agency Fitch revised its outlook on 🇨🇳 China's sovereign credit rating to negative on Tuesday, citing risks to public finances as the economy faced increasing uncertainty in its shift to new growth models.

Fitch forecast the general government deficit would rise to 7.1 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024 from 5.8 per cent in 2023, the highest since a reading of 8.6 per cent in 2020, when Beijing's strict COVID curbs weighed heavily on the world's No.2 economy.

#Economy #Geopolitics